Rod Serling(1924-1975)
- Writer
- Actor
- Producer
A former boxer, paratrooper and general all-around angry young man, Rod
Serling was one of the radical new voices that made the "Golden Age" of
television. Long before
The Twilight Zone (1959),
he was known for writing such high-quality scripts as "Patterns" and
"Requiem for a Heavyweight," both later turned into films
(Patterns (1956) and
Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)).
The Twilight Zone (1959)
featured forays into controversial grounds like racism, Cold War
paranoia and the horrors of war. His maverick attitude eventually drove
him from regular network television.
