 As a television screenwriter, Tannen wrote episodes for "Petticoat Junction", "I Dream Of Jeannie", "Gilligan's Island", "The Brady Bunch", "All In The Family" and "Maude".His father, Julius Tannen, and his brother, William Tannen, were also actors.Tannen died in 1980 in San Bernardino, California at the age of 65 of a heart attack.