John Furia Jr.
American television screenwriter
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Furia Jr. was an American television writer, whose credits included Bonanza, Hotel , Hawaii Five-O, The Twilight Zone, Kung Fu, The Waltons and Dr. Kildare. Furia graduated from Fordham University with a degree in Constitutional history. Then he started writing for Playhouse 90, the DuPont Show of the Month, and Climax! After moving to California, he became a freelance writer for TV and movies, and also worked in production. Besides the aforementioned shows, he wrote for The Alcoa Hour, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, and Espionage. One of his most successful screenplays was The Singing Nun. He was offered positions as story editor several times, but declined them because they would have interfered with his writing work, until Jerry Thorpe asked him to become the story editor of Kung Fu.
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