Roy Huggins

Data di nascita
18 luglio 1914 · Litelle, Washington, Stati Uniti
Data di morte
3 aprile 2002 · Santa Monica, California, Stati Uniti (cause naturali)
Nome alla nascita
Roy Marshall Huggins
Soprannome
- John Thomas James

The short stories and one novel that he published in the 1940s provided the source material for three of the television series he created: Indirizzo permanente (1958), Agenzia Rockford (1974), and La città degli angeli (1976).
Denied, until his death, that Il fuggiasco (1963) was based on the Samuel Sheppard murder case. Instead, he maintained that the series was a modern-day "Les Miserables", with "Dr. Kimble" in the "Jean Valjean" role and "Lt. Gerard" as "Javert".
According to a story that made the rounds in the early '60s, one day Huggins called to his wife, Adele Mara, to come into their bedroom and take his photograph. When she arrived with the camera and asked why, he replied, "Because I just had the greatest idea ever for a TV series [Il fuggiasco (1963)] and I want to preserve the moment". He framed the photo and hung it over his desk for his entire career.
Wrote about 350 scripts for television and film.
Joined the Communist Party in 1939 and left it in 1940. In 1952 he was called before the House UnAmerican Activites Committee and was a cooperative witness, naming 19 other CP members. Those 19 had already been named by previous witnesses.

[addressing the widely held belief that the 1954 murder case involving Dr. Samuel Sheppard was the basis for his TV series Il fuggiasco (1963) ] I don't care whether people say "The Fugitive" was based on the Sheppard case. The only reason I deny it is that it happens to be the truth.
[about his working relationship with Baretta (1975) star Robert Blake] It's a love-hate relationship, I love him and he hates me.
[his guiding principle for Maverick (1957) series writers] In the traditional western, the situation was always serious but never hopeless. In a "Maverick" story, the situation is always hopeless but never serious.