He wrote a script where Burt Lancaster's General James Mattoon Scott attempts to orchestrate a coup against President Lyman for signing a nuclear disarmament treaty.
In one uncomfortable moment, this man gave a pre-recorded shill for Schlitz beer during an Emmy telecast. He adapted an Irving Wallace novel for a film where President Fenton dies in a palace collapse in Frankfurt, resulting in James Earl Jones' character becoming America's first black President. He wrote a script where Burt Lancaster's General James Mattoon Scott attempts to orchestrate a coup against President Lyman for signing a nuclear disarmament treaty. This man wrote the screenplays to The Man and (*) Seven Days in May. One of his scripts ends with a pilot asking, "All I ask is that you remain calm and pray" after spotting a World's Fair building; in another, a bank teller survives an H-Bomb attack on New York by being in a bank vault, but breaks his glasses and cannot do the reading he'd love to do. This man wrote the teleplay for "The Odyssey of Flight 33" and "Time Enough at Last". For 10 points, name this creator of The Twilight Zone.
In one uncomfortable moment, this man gave a pre-recorded shill for Schlitz beer during an Emmy telecast.
Rod Serling [or Rodman Edward Serling]