Roy Huggins

Roy Huggins Headshot

Writer • Producer

Birth Date: July 18, 1914

Death Date: April 3, 2002

Birth Place: Litelle, Washington

In the 1940s, writer Roy Huggins worked in the civil service and as an engineer; but he also wrote novels and soon started writing for movies. While under contract to RKO and Columbia Pictures, Huggins wrote the screenplays for film-noirs such as "The Lady Gambles" with Barbara Stanwyck, and "Pushover" with Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak. He also wrote "Gun Fury," a rare 3-D western, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Rock Hudson.

Huggins moved away from feature films and started to make a name for himself in television in the late 1950s, first as a writer on the James Garner western series "Maverick," and in the 1960s he took the reins of television production at 20th Century-Fox and stayed on there for many years. During his tenure, he created the long-running hit "The Fugitive," starring David Janssen as a wrongly convicted man searching for the real killer of his wife, and produced the cop series "Baretta" before creating another classic James Garner show: "The Rockford Files."

Credits

Too Late for Tears

Writer
Show
2023

U.S. MarshalsStream

Executive Producer
Movie
1998
30%

U.S. MarshalsStream

Writer (Characters)
Movie
1998
30%

The FugitiveStream

Executive Producer
Movie
1993
96%

HunterStream

Executive Producer
Series
1984

HunterStream

Writer
Series
1984

Hunter

Executive Producer
Movie
1984

City of Angels

Creator
Show
1976

The Invasion of Johnson County

Producer
Movie
1976

The November Plan

Producer
Movie
1976

Hazard's People

Producer
Movie
1976

Hazard's People

Writer
Movie
1976

The Rockford FilesStream

Creator
Series
1974

KojakStream

Executive Producer
Series
1973

The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

Executive Producer
Movie
1971

One Day Before Tomorrow

Executive Producer
Movie
1970

The Challengers

Producer
Movie
1970

The Young Country

Director
Movie
1970

The Young Country

Producer
Movie
1970

The Outsider

Creator
Show
1968

The Sound of Anger

Producer
Movie
1968

The Outsider

Producer
Movie
1967

Run for Your Life

Producer
Series
1965

The FugitiveStream

Creator
Series
1963

The VirginianStream

Executive Producer
Series
1962

The VirginianStream

Writer
Series
1962

Bus Stop

Creator
Show
1961

Bus Stop

Writer
Show
1961

Follow the Sun

Producer
Show
1961

Follow the Sun

Writer
Show
1961

A Fever in the Blood

Producer
Movie
1961

A Fever in the Blood

Screenwriter
Movie
1961

Hawaiian Eye

Creator
Series
1959

77 Sunset Strip

Creator
Series
1958

MaverickStream

Creator
Series
1957

Cheyenne

Producer
Series
1955

Du plomb pour l'inspecteur

Screen Story Writer
Movie
1954

Pushover

Writer
Movie
1954
86%

Gun FuryStream

Screenwriter
Movie
1953

Los Forasteros

Director
Movie
1952

Hangman's KnotStream

Director
Movie
1952

Hangman's KnotStream

Screenwriter
Movie
1952

Sealed Cargo

Screenwriter
Movie
1951

Too Late for TearsStream

Screenwriter
Movie
1949
100%

The Fuller Brush Man

Screenwriter
Movie
1948

I Love TroubleStream

Screenwriter
Movie
1947