In Remembrance: Robert Lewin

     Robert Lewin, the screenwriter who was nominated for an Academy Award for the 1956 war film The Bold And The Brave, has passed away in Santa Monica, California on August 28, 2004. He was 84.

     Born in 1920 in New York City, Lewin was a Yale graduate who served in the Army during World War II. After the war he served as a reporter for the Atlanta Constitution newspaper and Life magazine and was a partner in a public relations firm before heading to Hollywood to try his hand at screenwriting.

     Drawing from his own experiences during World War II, Lewin wrote The Bold And The Brave. Directed by Lewis R. Foster, the film centered on two soldiers, played by Wendell Corey and Don Taylor, fighting in Italy. In addition to the nomination for Best Original Screenplay, the film also earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination for co-star Mickey Rooney.

     After a stint writing for the television series The Rifleman and Rawhide, Lewin returned to film writing, directing and producing the 1962 drama Third Of A Man which starred Simon Oakley as a man with multiple personality disorder.

     Lewin remained in television for the remainder of his career, working on such series as The Fugitive, The FBI, Gunsmoke, Mission Impossible, Mannix, Hawaii Five-O Kung Fu and The Man From Atlantis. He served as a writer/producer for the series The Paper Chase and for the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation before retiring.