William Froug was an American television writer and producer.
21 Facts About William Froug
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William Froug's producing credits included the series The Twilight Zone, Gilligan's Island, and Bewitched.
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William Froug authored numerous books on screenwriting, including Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade, Zen and the Art of Screenwriting I and II, The Screenwriter Looks at The Screenwriter, and How I Escaped from Gilligan's Island: Adventures of a Hollywood Writer-Producer, published in 2005 by the University of Wisconsin Press.
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William Froug was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1922 and placed for adoption through the Louise Wise agency there.
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William Froug graduated from Little Rock Senior High School in 1939.
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William Froug attended and graduated from the renowned Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri in 1943 before enlisting in the US Navy.
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William Froug was selected for the V-7 Navy College Training Program at Columbia University and graduated as one of the "90 Day Wonders".
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William Froug sold his first novella to True Detective Magazine in 1946.
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William Froug then moved into radio writing and was Vice President of Programs at CBS Radio Hollywood by 1956.
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William Froug transitioned into television adapting one of his radio scripts into an episode of The Jane Wyman Show in 1955.
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William Froug was nominated for the Producer of the Year award by the Producers Guild of America for his work on Mr Novak, Playhouse 90 and The Twilight Zone.
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William Froug's shows were called must-see TV for millions of viewers and fans.
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William Froug was nominated for another Emmy as producer on Bewitched, became executive producer in charge of drama at CBS, and began lecturing at USC's film school before leaving for UCLA as an adjunct professor.
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William Froug authored numerous books on screenwriters and screenwriting and continued in leadership positions with the Writers Guild of America West and Producers Guild of America.
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In 1987 William Froug was honored with the prestigious Valentine Davies Award from the Writers Guild of America, West.
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In 2011, William Froug was selected as one of the Emmy Legends of Television by the Archive of American Television.
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William Froug was a political and social activist and served on the boards of both the Writers Guild of America, West and Producers Guild of America.
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William Froug died at the age of 91 in August 2013 in Sarasota, Florida.
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William Froug's name is William Froug, he lives in Florida and if you look him up on Amazon, you will see he is still writing brilliant and useful books about screenwriting and teleplays.
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William Froug is not merely as sharp as a tack, he is the standard by which they sharpen tacks.
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One thing that keeps William Froug young is that, unlike Flash Madden, he almost certainly does not sit on an expressway overpass guzzling Jack Daniels from a pint bottle.