Harold Jack Bloom (April 26, 1924 – August 27, 1999) was an American

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and screenwriter who scored a notable hit with his first major screenplay to the classic Anthony Mann

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'' The Naked Spur'' in 1953, earning an

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nomination in the process.

Career

Apart from the odd film script, most of Bloom's career was spent writing for television. He worked on such series as '' Bonanza,'' ''

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'' and, in particular, the TV series version of ''

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.'' He was also co-creator, along with Robert A. Cinader and Jack Webb, of the medical/paramedic drama, ''

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'' Its pilot installment, "The Wedsworth-Townsend Act," was the only installment to which he made any major contributions. When

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was unavailable, the producers of the

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film '' You Only Live Twice'' hired Bloom to write the screenplay of the film. The producers did not use Bloom's script, but since several of his ideas were eventually written into Roald Dahl's screenplay of the film, Bloom was credited with "additional story material." Bloom co-produced '' A Gunfight'' with Kirk Douglas through his own film production company, Thoroughbred Productions. One of his last assignments was the well-regarded

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'' in 1982, a showcase role for Kirk Douglas as a

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Personal Life and Death

He was married to actress Carolyn Kearney, with whom he had one child, Charles. Harold Jack Bloom's second marriage, in 1987, was to interior designer Norene Fremont. Bloom died of cancer on August 27, 1999, at the age of seventy-five.

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