Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roy Huggins (July 18, 1914 – April 3, 2002) was an American novelist and an influential writer/creator and producer of character-driven television series, including Maverick, The Fugitive, and The Rockford Files. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roy Huggins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Complete Filmography

U.S. Marshals
1998
Executive Producer, Characters
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes....

The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime
1996
Creator
Laid-back private eye Jim Rockford and his brown Pontiac Firebird become embroiled in another case when he runs across an old flame, blind book editor...

Maverick
1994
Original Series Creator
Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game b...

The Fugitive
1993
Executive Producer, Characters
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear...
Perfect Crimes
1991
Executive Producer, Writer
True stories about individuals seeking to commit a perfect crime.

The Jordan Chance
1978
Executive Producer, Story
Jordan Chance was wrongfully imprisoned for ten years. Upon release, he becomes a lawyer and investigates the case of a Mexican woman convicted of mur...

The 3,000 Mile Chase
1977
Story
Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to ...

The November Plan
1977
Producer, Story
A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely based on The Business Plot of 1933.

The Invasion of Johnson County
1976
Producer
A free-spirited Bostonian recently arrived in the West teams up with a crusty Wyoming cowboy to stop a land baron's attempts to drive out a group of s...

This Is the West That Was
1974
Executive Producer
A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
1974
Executive Producer
A humanistic account of "The Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills," in which Charles Arthur Floyd is portrayed as a decent man who has a strong sense of fa...

The Rockford Files
1974
Story
The hit 1974 series pilot aired on NBC March 27, 1974, as a 90-minute made-for-television movie. In the pilot, Lindsay Wagner also starred and later m...

Toma
1973
Executive Producer
This TV-pilot, later made into a TV-series, is about a cop in Newark, New Jersey, who defies his superiors to try to bring down the head of a Mafia nu...
Set This Town on Fire
1973
Executive Producer, Writer
After serving seven years in prison for manslaughter, a man returns to his hometown to find that the eyewitness whose testimony convicted him has seco...

The Day They Hanged Kid Curry
1971
Story
Hayes visits con-artist Silky O'Sullivan at his San Francisco mansion and discovers that Kid Curry is on trial for murder in Colorado. Heyes rushes to...

Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
1971
Producer
An alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, he must find out who killed a visiting preacher.

Do You Take This Stranger?
1971
Executive Producer
A social climber/con artist schemes to inherit one million dollars by trading identities with a dying man.

The 48-Hour Mile
1970
Characters, Executive Producer
An unusual assignment for a private investigator involves two women who are in love with the same man.

The Young Country
1970
Producer, Executive Producer, Writer
An adventurous young gambler searches for the owner of a mysterious fortune.

Drive Hard, Drive Fast
1970
Writer, Executive Producer
A race-car driver finds himself in a romantic triangle and a machete-swinging stranger trying to kill him.

The Challengers
1970
Story, Producer
Racers compete in the Grand Prix.

The Whole World Is Watching
1969
Executive Producer
In this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series, the firm of Nichols, Darrell & Darrell defends the leader of a st...

Any Second Now
1969
Executive Producer
A photographer plans to murder his rich young wife after she catches him cheating on her and threatens to divorce him so he won't get any of her money...

The Sound of Anger
1968
Story, Producer
Two teenagers who have been engaged in pre-marital sex become the prime suspects when the girl's disapproving father is mysteriously murdered.

The Outsider
1967
Producer, Writer
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies sta...

A Fever in the Blood
1961
Writer, Producer
A judge, a district attorney and a U. S. senator--each hoping to be elected the next governor--attempt to manipulate a murder trial to advance their o...

Three Hours to Kill
1954
Screenplay
After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a flashback, we learn how he was framed for murder but ...

Pushover
1954
Writer
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.

Gun Fury
1953
Screenplay
After a stagecoach holdup, Frank Slayton's notorious gang leave Ben Warren for dead and head off with his fiancée. Warren follows, and although none o...

Hangman's Knot
1952
Director, Writer
In 1865, a troop of Confederate soldiers led by Major Matt Stewart attack the wagon of gold escorted by Union cavalry and the soldiers are killed. The...

Sealed Cargo
1951
Screenplay
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishing...

State Secret
1950
Novel
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demon...

The Good Humor Man
1950
Writer
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an...

Woman in Hiding
1950
Adaptation
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if n...

Too Late for Tears
1949
Screenplay
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murd...

The Lady Gambles
1949
Screenplay
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the ca...

The Fuller Brush Man
1948
Story
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward ...

I Love Trouble
1948
Novel, Screenplay
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.