• Name: Rod Serling
  • Date of Birth: December 25, 1924
  • Place of Birth: Syracuse, New York, USA
Mini-bio: A former boxer, paratrooper and general all-around angry young man, Rod Serling was one of the radical new voices that made the "Golden Age" of television. Long before "The Twilight Zone" (1959), he w...( read more)as known for writing such high-quality scripts as "Patterns" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight", both later turned into films (Patterns (1956) and Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)). Even "The Twilight Zone" featured forays into controversial grounds like racism, Cold War paranoia and the horrors of war. His maverick attitude eventually drove him from regular network television.

Rod Serling died on June 28 1975, in Rochester, New York, USA, from complications arising from a coronary bypass operation.
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Replace this image with an actor photoRod Serling mini-bio: A former boxer, paratrooper and general all-around angry young man, Rod Serling was one of the radical new voices that made the "Golden Age" of television. Long before "The Twilight Zone" (1959), he was known for writing such high-quality scripts as "Patterns" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight", both later turned into films (Patterns (1956) and Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)). Even "The Twilight Zone" featured forays into controversial grounds like racism, Cold War paranoia and the horrors of war. His maverick attitude eventually drove him from regular network television.

Rod Serling died on June 28 1975, in Rochester, New York, USA, from complications arising from a coronary bypass operation.

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