Roy Huggins

This extensive biography of producer-writer Roy Huggins, best known for creating the TV series, Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive, Run For Your Life and The Rockford Files (with Stephen J. Cannell), details his personal and professional life. His story is told through exclusive interviews with family, producers, actors and writers who worked with Huggins. The author was granted exclusive access to Huggins' personal memoirs to provide an intimate, first-hand account of Huggins including his early career at Columbia, RKO, Warner Bros and 20th Century-Fox. Huggins' political activism at UCLA and the subsequent House Un-American Activities hearing in 1952 is covered in depth. Includes extensive filmography and previously unpublished photographs provided by family members.