Roy Huggins

<p> Producer-writer Roy Huggins is best known for creating the TV series <I>Maverick 77 Sunset Strip The Fugitive Run For Your Life</I> and <I>The Rockford Files</I> (with Stephen J. Cannell). This biography details his personal and professional life aided by exclusive interviews with family producers actors and writers who worked with him.</p><p> The author was granted exclusive access to Huggins' personal memoirs to provide an intimate firsthand account including his early career at Columbia RKO Warner Bros. and 20th Century-Fox. Huggins' political activism at UCLA and the subsequent House Un-American Activities hearing in 1952 is covered in depth. The book includes an extensive filmography and previously unpublished photographs provided by family members.</p>