Barry Oringer
{{short description|American producer and screenwriter}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Barry Oringer
| image = Barry Oringer.png
| birth_date = {{birth date|1935|12|03}}
| birth_place = New York, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|01|10|1935|12|03}}
| death_place = Novato, California, U.S.
| occupation = Producer, screenwriter
| spouse = Janine Oringer{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/barry-oringer-obituary?id=7164345|title=Barry Oringer Obituary (1935-2021)|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=January 15, 2021|access-date=October 15, 2022}}
| alma mater = Brooklyn College
}}
Barry Oringer (December 3, 1935 – January 10, 2021) was an American producer and screenwriter. He was known for writing the pilot episode of the American soap opera television series Hotel with John Furia Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://cinema.usc.edu/news/article.cfm?id=9778|title=In Memoriam: John Furia, Jr.|work=USC School of Cinematic Arts|date=May 11, 2009|access-date=October 15, 2022}}
Life and career
Born in New York, Oringer was raised in a Jewish family. He attended Brooklyn College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama and English.
Oringer began his career in 1962, when he wrote the English script for Curtis Bernhardt's film Damon and Pythias. He then wrote for television programs including The Invaders, Mannix, The Fugitive, Ben Casey, Barnaby Jones, The F.B.I., Lancer, I Spy and The Virginian.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OvPH-sYo_O8C|title=A History of Television's The Virginian, 1962-1971|first=Paul|last=Green|page=246|publisher=McFarland|date=January 10, 2014|isbn=9780786457991|via=Google Books}}
Barry Oringer died in January 2021, of Lewy body disease at his home in Novato, California, at the age of 85. He was buried in Bolinas Cemetery.
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External links
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Category:Television producers from New York (state)
Category:Screenwriters from New York (state)
Category:American male screenwriters
Category:American soap opera writers
Category:American male television writers
Category:American television writers
Category:20th-century American screenwriters
Category:20th-century American male writers
Category:Brooklyn College alumni
Category:Deaths from Lewy body dementia
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