 In 1949, Gidding married Hildegarde Colligan; together they had a son, Joshua Gidding, who today is a New York City writer and college professor.In Hollywood, Gidding entered work in television, writing for such series as "Suspense" and "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon", and eventually moved into feature films like "The Helen Morgan Story" (1957), "Odds Against Tomorrow" (1959), "The Haunting" (1963), "Lost Command" (1966), "The Andromeda Strain" (1971), and "The Hindenburg" (1975).After the death of his first wife on June 13, 1995, in 1998 Gidding married Chun-Ling Wang, a Chinese immigrant.