Arthur Weiss

Last updated

Arthur Weiss
Arthur Weiss.jpg
Born
Arthur Weiss

(1912-06-13)13 June 1912
New York City, New York
Died26 August 1980(1980-08-26) (aged 68)
Los Angeles, California
Years active1955–1977
Spouse(s)Fay Baker
(1940–1965; divorced)
2 children (1 deceased)

Arthur Weiss (13 June 1912 – 26 August 1980) was an American script writer for two decades on action/adventure TV shows like Mission: Impossible , Mannix , The Fugitive , Super Friends , The Time Tunnel, Emergency!, 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! .

Contents

In 1969 Weiss published the novel O'Kelly's Eclipse about the undefeated British racehorse Eclipse. [1]

Weiss married actress Fay Baker on 3 August 1940. He divorced in 1965 and later married Patricia Jones.

Television series scripts

TV series Scripts [2]
TV ShowEpisodeDate
Emergency! Body Language8 December 1973
Quicker Than the Eye9 November 1974
Super Friends The Power Pirate8 September 1973
The Baffles Puzzle15 September 1973
Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C.22 September 1973
The Weather Maker29 September 1973
Dr. Pelagian's War6 October 1973
Shamon U13 October 1973
Too Hot to Handle20 October 1973
The Androids27 October 1973
The Balloon People3 November 1973
The Fantastic Frerps10 November 1973
The Ultra Beam17 November 1973
Menace of the White Dwarf24 November 1973
The Mysterious Moles1 December 1973
Gulliver's Gigantic Goof8 December 1973
The Planet Splitter15 December 1973
The Watermen22 December 1973
Mission: Impossible The Killer19 September 1970
Takeover2 January 1971
The Missile16 January 1971
Blind18 September 1971
Underwater6 November 1971
Committed22 January 1972
Movie4 November 1972
Land of the Giants Target: Earth2 March 1969
The Chase20 April 1969
Deadly Pawn12 October 1969
Chamber of Fear16 November 1969
Mannix The Silent Cry28 September 1968
Fly, Little One21 February 1970
The Man Outside24 November 1971
To Kill a Memory29 October 1972
A Question of Murder10 March 1974
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Fires of Death17 September 1967
Journey with Fear15 October 1967
Deadly Amphibians17 December 1967
Savage Jungle25 February 1968
The Time Tunnel One Way to the Moon16 September 1966
End of the World23 September 1966
The Day the Sky Fell In30 September 1966
The Last Patrol7 October 1966
Crack of Doom14 October 1966
Revenge of the Gods21 October 1966
Massacre28 October 1966
Devil's Island11 November 1966
Reign of Terror18 November 1966
Secret Weapon25 November 1966
The Death Trap2 December 1966
The Alamo9 December 1966
Night of the Long Knives16 December 1966
Invasion23 December 1966
The Revenge of Robin Hood30 December 1966
Kill Two by Two6 January 1967
The Ghost of Nero20 January 1967
The Walls of Jericho27 January 1967
Idol of Death3 February 1967
Billy the Kid10 February 1967
Pirates of Deadman's Island17 February 1967
Chase Through Time24 February 1967
The Death Merchant3 March 1967
Attack of the Barbarians10 March 1967
Merlin the Magician17 March 1967
The Kidnappers24 March 1967
Raiders from Outer Space31 March 1967
Town of Terror7 April 1967
Daktari Leopard of Madla George15 February 1966
Flipper (unknown episodes)1964
The Fugitive Decision in the Ring22 October 1963
Home Is the Hunted7 January 1964
The End Is But the Beginning12 January 1965
Fun and Games and Party Favors26 January 1965
Dr. Kildare A Time to Every Purpose27 December 1962
Ripcord The Sky Diver28 September 1961
Everglades Lie Detector27 November 1961
Men into Space Moon Probe30 September 1959
Tankers in Space6 January 1960
The Man and the Challenge Odds Against Survival26 September 1959
White Out14 November 1959
The Rifleman Young Englishman16 December 1958
The Restless Gun The Hand Is Quicker17 March 1958
The Court of Last Resort The Frank Clark Case (writing supervisor)21 February 1958
The Jacob Loveless Case (script supervisor)28 February 1958
The Mary Morales Case21 March 1958
The Todd-Loomis Case4 April 1958
Sea Hunt Sixty Feet Below4 January 1958
Mark of the Octopus1 February 1958
Killer Whale22 March 1958
Magnetic Mine31 May 1958
Hermes10 May 1959
Dr. Christian The Guardian1 January 1956
Highway Patrol Released Convict1 January 1956
Hit and Run13 February 1956
Dead Patrolman30 April 1956
Stolen Car Ring24 December 1956
Mistaken Identity1 January 1957
Escaped Mental Patient1 January 1957
Nitro25 March 1957
Double Cross3 June 1957
Science Fiction Theatre The Unexplored11 November 1955
Before the Beginning16 December 1955
The Long Sleep13 April 1956
The Unguided Missile25 May 1956
Jupitron17 August 1956
The Strange Lodger8 February 1957
Four Star Playhouse Tusitala24 February 1955

Television series production

TV series Production [2]
TV ShowEpisodeDate
The Swiss Family Robinson (Producer)(unknown episodes)1975–1977
The Fugitive (Associate Producer)Fear in a Desert City17 September 1963
The Witch24 September 1963
The Other Side of the Mountain1 October 1963
Never Wave Goodbye: Part 18 October 1963
Never Wave Goodbye: Part 215 October 1963
Smoke Screen29 October 1963
Fatso19 November 1963
Home Is the Hunted7 January 1964
Come Watch Me Die21 January 1964
Where the Action Is28 January 1964
Flight from the Final Demon10 March 1964
Taps for a Dead War17 March 1964
Somebody to Remember24 March 1964
Never Stop Running31 March 1964
The Homecoming7 April 1964
Storm Center14 April 1964
The End Game21 April 1964

Filmography

Screen Play by Arthur Weiss Flipper 1963 movie poster.jpg
Screen Play by Arthur Weiss
Film [2]
YearFilmRoleNotes
1996 Flipper Original ScriptPosthumous credit
1983 The Night the Bridge Fell Down WriterPosthumous credit
1978 The Return of Captain Nemo ProducerTV
1977 Fire! Writer/ExecutiveTV
1976 Adventures of the Queen Production ExecutiveTV
1976 Flood! Writer/ExecutiveTV
1976 Time Travelers Production executiveTV
1966 Namu, the Killer Whale Writer
1966 Around the World Under the Sea Writer
1964 Rhino! Writer
1963 Flipper Writer

References

  1. ↑ Weiss, Arthur (1969). O'Kelly's Eclipse. Cassell. ISBN   0-304-93427-5.
  2. 1 2 3 Weiss, Arthur. "Internet Movie Database". IMDb.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.