Roy Huggins: Blurbs

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TRIVIA

  • Roy Huggins' novel The Double Take may be one of the most oft-filmed detective novels of all time. There was a 1948 film adaptation (I Love Trouble); the story appeared twice on The Rockford Files; once on City of Angels; once on Maverick; and on many other Huggins series. Author Max Allan Collins guessed that this was "probably just so Huggins could double dip: get paid for the screen story and for the script." edit »
  • Roy Huggins originally intended for the villain of The Fugitive to have red hair, but he felt that it was such a common characteristic that he chose to have a one-armed man instead. edit »
  • Roy Huggins deliberately wrote the character of Bret Maverick to not have any of what Huggins considered to be the "irritating perfection" of TV's western heroes. edit »
  • Stephen J. Cannell said that "[Roy Huggins] taught me everything that I used through my career on how to create and write and produce a television show." edit »
  • Producer Jo Swerling, Jr. remembered Huggins: "Roy was a giant in the television industry, He was brilliant. He had a very fertile mind and was a great storyteller. I think he had a sort of natural sense of popular art of the time." edit »
  • Roy Huggins is the father of actress Katherine Crawford. edit »
  • Roy Huggins received the Lifetime Achievement in Television Award from the Producers' Guild in 1994. edit »
  • Roy Huggins received a 2002 Golden Boot Award. These are given to writers, directors, stunt people and character actors who have had significant involvement in the western genre in film and television. edit »
  • Roy Huggins graduated summa cum laude from UCLA. edit »
  • In 1961, Newton Minnow, chairman of the FCC, launched complaints against television, claiming that it was a "vast wasteland." One of the shows singled out in his attacks was Bus Stop, created and produced by Roy Huggins. The production company, 20th Century Fox, sidelined Huggins as a result of this criticism. edit »
  • Roy Huggins received the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991. edit »
  • Warner Bros. did not acknowledge Roy Huggins as the creator of Maverick until the credits of the 1994 film. edit »
  • Roy Huggins' second wife was actress Adele Mara, who appeared in many of his shows, including Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip and Cool Million. edit »
  • Roy Huggins was the brother-in-law of actor Luis Delgado, who made appearances on Maverick and The Rockford Files. edit »
  • Roy Huggins was accused for years of basing The Fugitive on the real-life case of Dr. Sam Sheppard. Sheppard was convicted of the murder of his wife, but he claimed she had been killed by a bushy-haired intruder he saw running from the scene. (Sheppard was later acquitted in a second trial.) Huggins always denied that Richard Kimble was based on Sam Sheppard. edit »
  • Roy Huggins' pseudonym, "John Thomas James," that he used on many of his scripts, was created by combining the first names of his three sons. edit »
  • Roy Huggins joined the American Communist Party because of his hatred of facism. He left the party after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact in 1939. Still, his membership got him called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he named 19 former members who had also appeared before the committee. edit »
  • Over the course of his career, Roy Huggins wrote over 350 scripts for television and film. edit »
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QUOTES

  • Roy Huggins: Everyone I consulted about The Fugitive hated the idea - they found it offensive and distasteful. One man called it "a slap in the face of American justice." But the American people never saw a thing wrong with it. edit »
  • Roy Huggins: The public arts are created for a mass audience and for a profit; that is their essential nature. But they can at times achieve truth and beauty, and given freedom they will achieve it more and more often. edit »
  • Roy Huggins: (describing his trendsetting arrangement with studios, known as the "Huggins Contract") I was getting paid my royalty and my fee whether I did the show or not. If I conceived the show, and got it on the air, anyone could produce it and I would still get paid just as if I was doing it. That became known as "the Huggins Contract". Every producer in television would say "I want the Huggins contract," and some of them got it. edit »
  • Roy Huggins: I don't care whether people say The Fugitive was based on the Sheppard case. The only reason I deny it is that it happens to be the truth. edit »
  • Roy Huggins: (describing his testimony before HUAC) I ended up agreeing that people who had already been mentioned many times were indeed known to me as Communists. edit »
  • Roy Huggins: (describing his working relationship with Robert Blake) It's a love-hate relationship, I love him and he hates me. edit »
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