Gerald Green, 84; Wrote ‘The Last Angry Man,’ ‘Holocaust’ Series

Gerald Green, 84, author of “The Last Angry Man,” a 1956 book that told the story of a heroic doctor who worked in New York’s slums, died Tuesday of pneumonia in Norwalk, Conn.

He also wrote the screenplay and novelization of “Holocaust,” a 1978 TV miniseries about the destruction of much of Europe’s Jewish community. The NBC miniseries was seen by an estimated 400 million people worldwide and won eight Emmy awards. Soon after that, the West German government repealed the statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes.

“The Last Angry Man” was dedicated to Samuel Greenberg, the author’s father and a doctor in Brooklyn, and was made into a 1959 movie starring Paul Muni.

Green was born April 8, 1922, in Brooklyn. He served in the Army during World War II and graduated from Columbia University, where he received a master’s in journalism.

He was a writer, director and producer at NBC television in its early days.

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Ann Richards, an Australian-born actress who had roles in a number of American movies in the 1940s, died Aug. 24 at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Torrance. She was 88.