Arthur Weiss (13 June 1912 – 26 August 1980) was an American script writer for two decades on action/adventure TV shows like '' Mission: Impossible'', ''

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'', '' The Fugitive'', ''

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'', ''

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, Emergency!,'' and ''

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''. His most famous creation was the script for the movie ''

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'' in 1963, which became a TV series and was remade as a movie in 1996. He also worked alongside

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as a writer and producer for "disaster" TV films including ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 1969 Weiss published the nove
O'Kelly's Eclipse
about the undefeated British racehorse

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. Weiss married actress

Fay Baker Fay Baker (born Fay Schwager; January 31, 1917 – December 8, 1987) was an American stage, film and television actress and writer. Using the pen name Beth Holmes she wrote the novel ''The Whipping Boy''. She also published, under her own name, ...

on 3 August 1940. He divorced in 1965 and later married Patricia Jones.

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