Frank Burt(1920-1958)
- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Producer
A favorite of both James Stewart and Jack Webb, Frank Burt was a
prolific writer of film, radio and television stories during the 1940s
and 1950s. In radio, his series writing credits include "The Whistler,"
"Hallmark Hall of Fame," and "The Unexpected." Burt created the well-
regarded radio series "The Six Shooter" for Stewart and wrote all but
one of its episodes. Stewart purchased three of Burt's scripts and
later produced them for television, while the remainder were adapted
for television as "The Restless Gun" starring John Payne (although,
oddly enough, Burt was uncredited for the use of his character on the
pilot to Payne's series). Burt's relationship with Stewart was to
continue with a collaboration on one of Stewart's Westerns, "The Man
from Laramie." Other writing credits included scripts for Jack Webb's
landmark television series "Dragnet." A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
Stanford University, Burt died at 38, suddenly and unexpectedly, from a
heart attack, in 1958. At the time of his death, Burt was supervising
pilot scripts at the Hecht-Hill-Lancaster company.
