William Froug
| William Froug | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 26, 1922 New York City, United States |
| Died | August 25, 2013 (aged 91) Sarasota, Florida, United States |
| Occupation | Radio writer-producer, Television writer-producer, author, professor |
| Known for | |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service/branch |
.svg){kind=small} United States Navy
|
| Years of service | 1943–1946 |
| Rank |
 LTJG
|
William Froug (May 26, 1922 – August 25, 2013) was an American television writer and producer. His producing credits included the series' The Twilight Zone, Gilligan's Island, and Bewitched, among others. He was a writer for such shows as Adventures in Paradise, The Dick Powell Show, Charlie's Angels, and The New Twilight Zone. He authored numerous books on screenwriting, including Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade, Zen and the Art of Screenwriting I and II, The Screenwriter Looks at The Screenwriter, and How I Escaped from Gilligan's Island: Adventures of a Hollywood Writer-Producer, published in 2005 by the University of Wisconsin Press.
One of Froug's students, actor and screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, included a reference to Froug in the 1974 film Dark Star. O'Bannon's character, Sergeant Pinback, claims that his real name is "Bill Froug."
William Froug was born in Brooklyn, New York in May 1922 and placed for adoption through the Louise Wise agency there. Soon after he was adopted by William and Rita Froug of Little Rock, Arkansas where he spent his childhood before the family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma (Froug's Department Stores). He graduated from Little Rock Senior High School in 1939. The family home of Froug's grandfather, Abraham Froug, has been preserved as a historic home and is located adjacent to the Governor's Mansion in the Little Rock Historic District.
Froug attended and graduated from the renowned Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri in 1943 before enlisting in the U.S. Navy. He was selected for the V7 Navy Officer Training Program at Columbia University and graduated as one of the "90 Day Wonders". He served as an officer aboard a subchaser stationed at Pearl Harbor before taking command of his own ship, USS PC800, in 1945 at Eniwetok Atoll.
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