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Howard Dimsdale was born on 21 April 1914 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. He was a writer, known for The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969), Captain Scarlett (1952) and The Six Million Dollar Man (1974). He was married to Joyce. He died on 27 August 1991 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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- August 27, 1991
- April 21, 1914
Sep 14, 1991 · Saying that he and his terminally ill wife “cannot imagine life apart,” screen and television writer Howard Dimsdale and his wife of 30 years have committed suicide. Friends said this week ...
Jan 10, 2023 · In The X-Files episode ‘Travelers’, Frank Spotnitz and John Shiban pay tribute to screenwriter Howard Dimsdale, who was blacklisted by McCarthy.
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Howard Dimsdale was a newspaper staff writer. (The X-Files Movie, The X-Files: I Want to Believe)
In 1998, he wrote an article that was published with the headline, "Fatal Hanta Virus Outbreak in Northern Texas Contained", on page twenty-four of a newspaper. Special Agent Fox Mulder read the article but was aware that the story was actually a cover for an alien virus and that the article made no mention of himself nor of his FBI partner, Agent Dana Scully, both of whom had recently investigated the alien virus. Alone with Scully, Mulder referred to Dimsdale's article as "an interesting work of fiction." (The X-Files Movie)
Howard Dimsdale was also credited as a staff writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, on an article he wrote that was headlined, "Princeton closes ESP lab after 40 years of paranormal study." In 2008, Mulder cut this article out of the newspaper and pinned it to a wall of his home office. (The X-Files: I Want to Believe)
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•Howard Dimsdale at the Internet Movie Database
Howard Dimsdale was born on April 21, 1914 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. He was a writer, known for The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969), Captain Scarlett (1952) and Mannix (1967). He was married to Joyce. He died on August 27, 1991 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- April 21, 1914
- August 27, 1991
Howard Dimsdale is known as an Writer, Screenplay, Story, and Story Consultant. Some of his work includes The Six Million Dollar Man, Somewhere in the Night, The Fugitive, Mannix, Adam-12, The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd, and The Living Ghost.
A Kiss for Corliss (retitled Almost a Bride before its release) is a 1949 American comedy film directed by Richard Wallace, written by Howard Dimsdale, and starring David Niven and Shirley Temple. The film, which was the last for both Wallace and Temple, was released on November 25, 1949, by United Artists .
