biography
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Roddenberry, Gene
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popular name of Eugene Wesley Roddenberry
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| male
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| lived:
| (1921–91)
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| biography:
| Writer, and film and television producer, born in El Paso, Texas, USA. He joined the Army Air Corps and served as a bomber pilot (1941–6) and as a crash investigator (1946–9). As an airline pilot (1949–53), he survived an aircrash in the Syrian desert. He moved to Los Angeles, joined the police, wrote scripts in his spare time for Dragnet, and became a full-time writer, contributing to several series including Highway Patrol and Dr Kildare. Always interested in science-fiction, he is best known as the creator and producer of Star Trek. |
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