Before writing independently, he had been a reporter at The New York Journal, and had worked for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. He was on the news staff of The New York Herald Tribune in 1942 when he went to Hollywood.
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The son of Yiddish-speaking Russian immigrants.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Lux Video Theatre
1957
TV Series story - 1 episode
Danger
1950
TV Series story - 1 episode
Free for All
1949
additional dialogue
One Last Fling
1949
story
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947
original story
Lady Luck
1946
story
Don Juan Quilligan
1945
story
Escape to Paradise
1939
story - as Herbert Lewis
Inside Story
1939
contributor to screenplay construction - uncredited