Who loves ya, baby? Telly Savalas prepares to shed a little light on the situation of a terrorsome toy in “Living Doll”.
producer/director George Pal. But sometime after the completion of THE INTRUDER in 1962,
his friends started noticing a change. William Shatner remembers, “We thought he was drunk, but he wasn’t; it was the disease.” With his career firing on all cylinders, Beaumont started acting strangely, forgetting the simplest things. Matheson says: “He was becoming ill, but for a long time nobody had any idea of what was wrong with him. Finally the doctors diagnosed him as having either Alzheimer’s or Pick’s disease.” Whatever the final diagnosis, Beaumont quickly, frustratingly,
lost the ability to write. Some of his friends, according to Marc Scott Zicree’s book THE TWILIGHT ZONE COMPANION, helped out by continuing to ghostwrite for him, a practice that started several years before when he regularly overworked himself, but no one could halt the progress of the illness. Beaumont passed away in
The reason caller ID was invented. Phillip Abbot in “Long Distance Call”.
Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 38, leaving behind his wife Helen, two sons, and two daughters. Though we mourn the loss of such a talented writer at such a
young age, Beaumont left behind a treasure that has grown in the decades since his passing. Three collections of his short fiction have been published in subsequent years (BEST OF BEAUMONT, CHARLES BEAUMONT: SELECTED STORIES, republished as THE HOWLING MAN, and A TOUCH OF THE CREATURE), his stories continue to be anthologized, and his film and television work continues to be appreciated by new generations. And, of course, his contributions to THE TWILIGHT ZONE
endure as an outstanding memorial to a man who flamed through the sky “like a comet,” in the words of his friend and collaborator William F. Nolan. We should all burn so bright.
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