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Roy Huggins
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Show Creator Born: July 18, 1914 in Littel, WA Death: April 3, 2002 in Santa Monica, CA Biography:Roy Huggins was one of the most influential writer-producers in television, from the 1950's through the 1980's, but his career in films (and fiction) actually dates from a decade earlier. Born in Littell, Washington in 1914, he later lived in Portland, Oregon, and attended the University of California in Los Angeles. In the 1930's, Huggins was a member of the Communist Party, but he resigned his membership following the signing of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact -- many years later, he testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and did name fellow members, but confined his accusations to people who had already been named in prior testimony by other ex-party members. During the early 1940's, Huggins was a employed by the U.S. Civil Service Commission, and later worked as an industrial engineer. Already, however, he had begun writing fiction, and in 1946 he published the... Full Biography
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