Lewis R. Hunter

(1935- ) born at Guide Rock, Webster County, lived in Lincoln, lives in Superior. Educator, television producer, film director, screenwriter, worked as program executive/producer for ABC-TV shows Batman and Bewitched and NBC-TV shows Little House on the Prairie and others; involved as producer and writer of more than 20 major length productions, including the 1981 television movie Fallen Angel for which he received an Emmy nomination and won a Writer’s Guild Award; authored Lew Hunter’s Screenwriting 434 (Perigee, 1993) while UCLA professor of screenwriting. Consult Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, Focus Magazine, August 20, 1972, p. F-8 and Nebraska Wesleyan University Magazine, Winter 1995, pp. 20-21 and Omaha World Herald, October 30, 1996, p. 45 and May 6, 2001, p. E-1 and Lincoln Journal Star, July 25, 2004, pp. A-1, A-6, A-7.

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