Arthur Weiss
Television producer, Deceased Person
1912 – 1980
Who was Arthur Weiss?
Arthur Weiss was an American script writer for two decades on action/adventure TV shows like Mission: Impossible, Mannix, The Fugitive, Super Friends, The Time Tunnel and Sea Hunt. His most famous creation was the script for the movie Flipper in 1963, which became a TV series and was remade as a movie in 1996. He also worked alongside Irwin Allen as a writer and producer for "disaster" TV films including Flood! and Fire!.
In 1969 Weiss published the novel O'Kelly's Eclipse about the undefeated British racehorse Eclipse.
Weiss married actress Fay Baker on 3 August 1940. He divorced in 1965 and later married Patricia Jones.
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- Born
- Jun 13, 1912
New York City - Also known as
- Art Wise
- Spouses
- Fay Baker
(1940/08/03 - 1965) - Patricia Jones
(1966/01/03 - 1980/08/26)
- Fay Baker
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- Aug 26, 1980
Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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