TV and Film Writer Freiwald Has Passed Away
According to Variety, veteran television and film writer Eric Freiwald, who wrote more than 1500 episodes for TV Westerns and other shows, died Jan. 29 in Prescott, Ariz. He was 82.
Freiwald is best known as a writer on the daytime soap “The Young and the Restless” for 30 years.
He began his career in 1950 writing episodes for TV Westerns with partner Robert Schaefer. His work also appeared in dozens of classic comic books for Western Publishing and Disney in the 1960s.
Among his TV writing credits were episodes of “The Gene Autry Show,” “The Adventures of Kit Carson,” “Hopalong Cassidy,” “Annie Oakley,” “The Lone Ranger,” “Maverick” and “The Beverly Hillbillies.” He was also a lead writer on the TV show “Lassie” for 13 seasons and wrote the feature film “The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold” in 1958.
Born in Detroit, he served in the Navy during WWII and soon after the war began his lifelong career as a writer.
He is survived by his wife of 62 years, June, two daughters, a son, four grandsons and one great grandson.
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