Robert Mitchell; Radio, TV Writer
Robert Mitchell, a veteran radio and TV writer, has been killed in a traffic accident.
Producer-director Gene Levitt, who collaborated with Mitchell on several scripts, said that his friend died Oct. 13 as a result of a car crash. Mitchell was 73.
Levitt and Mitchell first met at the University of Wyoming and lost touch until the end of World War II, when they renewed their friendship in Hollywood.
Their first joint project was the 1947 radio drama “The Adventures of Philip Marlowe.” The successful series ran for two years with Gerald Mohr portraying the Raymond Chandler detective.
Mitchell moved to TV, where, individually or with a series of collaborators, he wrote for such episodic dramas as “I Led Three Lives,” “Highway Patrol,” “DuPont Theater,” “Perry Mason,” “Combat,” “Charlie’s Angels” and “CHIPs.”
He also wrote “Any Second Now,” a 1968 television movie.
Mitchell’s survivors include his wife, Esther, who was injured in the accident; a daughter, Valerie Jean Wilson; a son, Benjamin, and one granddaughter.
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