Bill S. Ballinger
TV Writer
1912 – 1980
Who was Bill S. Ballinger?
Bill S. Ballinger was a prolific American author and screenwriter. He was educated at the University of Wisconsin and was an associate professor of writing at the California State University Northridge, Los Angeles, California.
Working in radio and advertising in the early 1940s, Ballinger wrote 81 radio scripts and produced The Dinah Shore Show, The Breakfast Club, and Lowell Thomas broadcasts. After Ballinger moved from New York to Los Angeles he began writing full-time.
The author of 30 books, Ballinger also used the names B.S. Sanborn and Frederic Fryer. The first was The Body in the Bed in 1948. His most famous work was 1950s Portrait in Smoke that received a Les Grands MaƮtres du Roman Policier Award and was filmed in 1956 as Wicked as they Come. Ballinger's two main fictional characters in his novels were Chicago private investigator Barr Breed and Native American Central Intelligence Agency Agent Joaquin Hawke. His book, The Longest Second, was nominated in 1958 for an Edgar for the Best Mystery award.
Ballinger was a frequent writer for American television with 150 teleplays to his name.
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- Born
- Mar 13, 1912
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- William Sanborn Ballinger
- Bill Ballinger
- B.S. Sanborn
- Frederic Fryer
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Mar 23, 1980
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on July 23, 2013
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