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Montgomery "Monty" Pittman (March 1, 1917 – June 26, 1962) was a television writer, director, and actor. Pittman was born in Louisiana and reared in Arkansas.〔 He left home and joined a carnival as a snake oil salesman.〔 He made his way to New York, hoping for at least a small Broadway role. There he met actor Steve Cochran, who hired him as caretaker of his Los Angeles home around 1950. In Los Angeles he tried to break into acting, but soon turned from acting to screenwriting. He wrote for such television series as ABC/Warner Brothers' ''77 Sunset Strip'', ''Sugarfoot'', ''Maverick'', '' Cheyenne'', ''Surfside 6'', and ''Colt .45'' and also for NBC's ''The Deputy'', and CBS's ''The Twilight Zone''. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., lead star of ''77 Sunset Strip'', a detective series which aired from 1958 to 1964, recalls that his friend Pittman at forty-five became ill with "a tumor on the side of his neck that grew rapidly to grapefruit-size. He had it excised, but it left a gaping hole, which he covered with a kerchief". The tumor was treated as cancer but did not go into remission, and Pittman soon died. Zimbalist delivered a eulogy at Pittman's funeral. Will Hutchins, another friend of Pittman's whom he attributed to having saved the ''Sugarfoot'' series for its two final seasons, was asked to be a pallbearer but declined because as a teenager Hutchins had dropped the casket of a relative and feared he might do so again.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Somewhat Forgotten Figure to Some Extent Remembered: Notes on Television Director, Script Writer, and Occasional Actor Montgomery Pittman )〕 Pittman is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Montgomery Pittman )〕 ==See also== *Sherry Jackson 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Montgomery Pittman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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