Ed Spielman (born in Brooklyn, New York City, US)[1] is a writer and executive producer for television and film, an author and journalist. He is the creator of the Emmy Award winning TV series Kung Fu.[2][3] Spielman wrote the story and teleplay for the series pilot (which was co-written with his friend Howard Friedlander). The pilot of Kung Fu has been credited as "the first American Martial Arts film."[1] He also created the Emmy Award winning TV series The Young Riders starring Stephen Baldwin and Josh Brolin. Another of his television series, Dead Man's Gun (which debuted on Showtime in 1997, and which he produced in partnership with MGM Productions, Henry Winkler, Howard Spielman, and Sugar Entertainment, Ltd.) was nominated for three cable ACE Awards (including Best Dramatic Series) and received six LEO nominations.[1][4]
Spielman has the rare distinction of being the only writer/producer in television history to have created and placed a Western series on the air — every decade for thirty years — at a time when Westerns were not even in vogue.
Spielman authored a biography of adventurer and health philosopher Joe Greenstein titled The Mighty Atom: The Life and Times of Joseph L. Greenstein,[5][6] released in 1979.[7] According to a reviewer with the American Library Association, The Mighty Atom was "one of the year's best books.".[1] The book was later rereleased as The Spiritual Journey of Joseph L. Greenstein: The Mighty Atom, World's Strongest Man.[6][8]
The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum has awarded Spielman personally the Western Heritage Award four times, and his shows seven times.[1][9]
Spielman is currently an executive producer developing his original Kung Fu television series into a feature film at Universal Pictures. A life-long classic car and Italian motorcycle enthusiast, he is a member of the Ventura Sports & Race Car Club and he is the Master of Ceremonies at their yearly concours events. Spielman lives in Southern California with Bonnie (his wife of 50 years), a house full of rescued pets and a small fleet of vintage cars and motorcycles.
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EdSpielman (born in Brooklyn, New York City, US) is a writer and executive producer for television and film, an author and journalist. He is the creator...
The Young Riders is an American Western television series created by EdSpielman that presents a fictionalized account of a group of young Pony Express...
on October 8, 1977, at age 84. The story of his life has been told by EdSpielman in the book The Mighty Atom and the documentary film "The Mighty Atom"...
Directed by Written by Original air date 1 1 "The Kid" Robert Lieberman EdSpielman September 20, 1989 (1989-09-20) The riders of the Pony Express are tested...
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adult by Chris Potter) The character was called Kwai Chang Caine in the EdSpielman and Howard Friedlander's original feature movie script, and it was written...
the Tiger, The Sign of the Dragon Jerry Thorpe Story by : EdSpielman Teleplay by : EdSpielman & Howard Friedlander February 22, 1972 (1972-02-22) Caine...
he had come up with the idea of a wandering monk in the Old West, but EdSpielman, the series' creator, insisted that the concept was his own idea from...
developing an identical concept, created by two writers and producers, EdSpielman and Howard Friedlander in 1969, as stated too by Lee's biographer Matthew...
American-Nigerian action-drama film written by Howard Friedlander and EdSpielman, and directed by Ossie Davis. During a trip to the newly independent...
Century Fox / Palomar Pictures Ossie Davis (director); Howard Friedlander, EdSpielman (screenplay); Paul Winfield, Carl Lee, David Downing, Tony King, Gilbert...
Ed Marinaro (born March 31, 1950) is an American actor and former football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Minnesota...
Title Creator(s) Studio(s) Notes 1993-1996 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues EdSpielman Warner Bros. Television — 1991-1993 Tropical Heat Sam Egan CBS — 1996-1997...
Date started: February 22, 1972 Date ended: April 26, 1975 Creator: EdSpielman, Jerry Thorpe and Herman Miller First network to broadcast: ABC Spin-off...
Jennifer Salt Slaughter's Big Rip-Off, starring Jim Brown, Brock Peters and Ed McMahon Sleeper, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Diane Keaton Slither...
editor Laurie Spiegel (B.A. 1975), electronic-music composer, inventor EdSpielman (A.A. 1965), writer and producer, one of the creators of the TV series...
Politische Beschreibung ..., Korn, p. 6 Spielman 1977, p. 57. Frey & Frey 1983, p. 14. Wheatcroft 1996, p. 200. Spielman 1977, p. 221. Ceballos, F C; Álvarez...
host of Cowboy Joe's Radio Ranch and Prairie Echoes (1978) Special Award: Ed Rutherford, collector of Western artifacts (1980) Special Award: James A....
Archived from the original on February 19, 2019. Retrieved February 18, 2019. Spielman, Fran (May 8, 2018). "Does Lori Lightfoot have a path to victory in crowded...
University in Starkville, Mississippi; public health entomologist Andrew Spielman of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Roger Breeze of Plum Island...
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