Name John F. | Role Scriptwriter | |
Occupation Director, television producer, writer Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Movies Shaft, The Carey Treatment, Gunfight in Abilene, Nobody's Perfect Similar People Ernest Tidyman, Marc Daniels, Richard Roundtree, Gene Roddenberry, Isaac Hayes | ||
John Donald Francis Black (born December 30, 1932) is a screenwriter, TV producer, and TV director. He is best known for his work on the TV series Star Trek (The Original Series) in 1966, and its sequel series, Star Trek: The Next Generation during the 1980s.
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Work
Black was the associate producer for ten episodes of Star Trek made during the program's first season, all of which were broadcast from September 8, 1966, through December 15, 1966. (This information can be found in www.Imdb.com.) Black also wrote the teleplay for and was the associate producer of one of the outstanding early episodes of Star Trek—"The Naked Time". During the 1980s, Black was also given credit for the story for sequel episode, "The Naked Now", in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Black also received shared story-writing credit (with Worley Thorne, who wrote the teleplay) for one more episode in this series, "Justice", under his pseudonym of "Ralph Wills".
Black also wrote for many other TV series, including The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Charlie's Angels, Hawaii Five-O, The Fugitive, Mission: Impossible, and Mannix.
In work for motion pictures, Black co-wrote the movie adaptation of Shaft (1971), along with his co-writer, Ernest Tidyman, who had written the original novel of Shaft. Black also was the screenwriter and executive producer of the detective film Trouble Man (1972), which starred Robert Hooks and whose musical score was written by Marvin Gaye.
Awards
In 1972, Black received an Edgar Award from the Writers Guild of America in the category of "Best Television Feature or Miniseries Teleplay" for writing the script for the made-for-TV movie Thief.