Bill Manhoff

{{short description|American screenwriter, producer and playwright}}

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|name = Bill Manhoff

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|birth_name = Wilton David Manhoff

|birth_date = {{birth date|1919|6|25|mf=y}}

|birth_place = Newark, New Jersey, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1974|6|19|1919|6|19|mf=y}}

|death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

|occupation = TV and film screenwriter, playwright

|yearsactive = 1955–1974

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Wilton "Bill" Manhoff (June 25, 1919 – June 19, 1974) was an American screenwriter, producer and playwright. His television series script writing credits included Sanford and Son, The Partridge Family, All in the Family, Room 222, The Odd Couple, Petticoat Junction, Leave It to Beaver, The Jane Wyman Show and The Real McCoys. He also wrote the script for the 1964 Broadway play The Owl and the Pussycat, which Buck Henry used as inspiration for the screenplay for the 1970 film adaptation.{{Cite web|url=http://www.englishtheatre.de/archives/article/the-owl-and-the-pussycat-by-bill-manhoff/|title=THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT by Bill Manhoff|work=The English Theatre of Hamburg|date=August 20, 1981|access-date=June 18, 2021|archive-date=October 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002120228/http://www.englishtheatre.de/archives/article/the-owl-and-the-pussycat-by-bill-manhoff/|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}} Manhoff died at age 54 in Los Angeles, California.