Herb Meadow
{{Short description|American television and writer}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2014}}
{{Infobox person
|name=Herb Meadow
|birth_name= Herman Meadow
|birth_date={{birth date|1911|5|27}}
|birth_place=Brooklyn, New York, United States
|death_date={{death date and age|1995|3|1|1911|5|27}}
|death_place=Los Angeles, United States
|occupation=Writer, producer
}}
Herb Meadow (May 27, 1911 – March 1, 1995) was an American television producer and writer, born 1911 in Brooklyn, New York, best known for creating such series as Have Gun – Will Travel.
Early years
Meadow grew up in Brooklyn. A ninth-grade school dropout, he was a runner for a gangster and bootlegger during the Prohibition Era. In addition to selling sheet music and jewelry and working at an art supply business.{{cite news |title=Herb Meadow; TV Writer Who Created 'Have Gun, Will Travel' |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-06-mn-39242-story.html |access-date=20 July 2019 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=March 6, 1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720234200/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-06-mn-39242-story.html |archive-date=20 July 2019}}
Career
When he was in his 20s, Meadow worked in radio in New York. In 1933, he became an actor, announcer, and writer at WCNW in New York.{{cite news |last1=Rosenberg |first1=Murray |title=Radio Rays |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34068380/the_brooklyn_citizen/ |access-date=20 July 2019 |work=Brooklyn Citizen |date=November 27, 1933 |location=New York, Brooklyn |page=11|via = Newspapers.com}} He later became a writer in the old-time radio era, creating 350 scripts for the soap opera Valiant Lady.
Meadow worked in Hollywood for more than 50 years. At age 83, he was still active, writing a screenplay that resulted in a $500,000 contract.{{cite news |last1=Hall |first1=Carla |title=Plot Twist |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34059938/herb_meadow/ |access-date=20 July 2019 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=November 16, 1994 |location=California, Los Angeles |page=29|via = Newspapers.com}} He wrote at least 37 feature-length film scripts, of which a dozen were produced, including The Redhead from Wyoming, The Strange Woman, Stranger on Horseback,{{cite news |title=Script: Pirate's Life May Be Treasure Trove for Writer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34059921/herb_meadow/ |access-date=20 July 2019 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=November 16, 1994 |location=California, Los Angeles |page=36|via = Newspapers.com}} and The Unguarded Moment.{{cite news |title=Herb Meadow, TV scriptwriter |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34061755/herb_meadow/ |access-date=20 July 2019 |work=The Record |date=March 8, 1995 |location=New Jersey, Hackensack |page=33|via = Newspapers.com}}
On television, in addition to Have Gun – Will Travel, Meadow created and wrote for The Man from Blackhawk{{cite news |last1=Humphrey |first1=Hal |title=Now It's Writers' Turn To Take Rap |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34060912/beckley_postherald_the_raleigh_register/ |access-date=20 July 2019 |work=Beckley Post-Herald The Raleigh Register |date=September 26, 1959 |location=West Virginia, Beckley |page=18|via = Newspapers.com}} and developed the Arrest and Trial series.
Despite his many scripts, he would write only one book Uncertain Glory, a novelization of the screenplay by László Vadnay & Max Brand from the screenstory by Brand and Joe May (Grosset and Dunlap, 1944).
Personal life
Death
Meadow died of a heart attack in 1995 in Los Angeles.[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/20/nyregion/theater-review-imprisoned-nice-girl-puts-it-all-on-tape.html The New York Times (1993)][https://archive.today/20130411134753/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/162993/Herb-Meadow The New York Times][https://web.archive.org/web/20140111124314/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-03-08/news/1995067079_1_herb-meadow-urban-spaceman-congestive The Baltimore Sun][https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-06-mn-39242-story.html The Los Angeles Times]
References
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External links
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Category:American television writers
Category:American male television writers
Category:American television producers
Category:20th-century American businesspeople
Category:American radio writers
Category:Writers from Brooklyn