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George Clayton Johnson
Birth name:
George Clayton Johnson
Place of birth:
Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
Place of death:
North Hills, California, USA
George Clayton Johnson (10 July1929 – 25 December2015; age 86) was a science fiction and fantasy writer who wrote the Star Trek: The Original Seriesfirst season episode "The Man Trap".
He was most famous for his work with William F. Nolan on the 1967 novel Logan's Run, which was filmed in 1976 and featuring Bill Couch, Sr. and music by Jerry Goldsmith.
Gene Roddenberry purchased another story from him entitled "Rock-A-Bye Baby – Or Die," which concerned an alien entity entering the Enterprise computer system then growing to adulthood, with Kirk as a father figure. Gene L. Coon never took a liking to the story, and it was never produced. He also wrote a story outline entitled "The Syndicate", based on Roddenberry's concept "President Capone", which later became the basis for "A Piece of the Action".
Johnson appeared, as an actor, in Roger
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George Clayton Johnson
American writer (1929–2015)
For other people named George Johnson, see George Johnson (disambiguation).
George Clayton Johnson | |
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George Clayton Johnson in Burbank, California. Photo: Mike Glyer, April 2014. | |
| Born | (1929-07-10)July 10, 1929 Cheyenne, Wyoming, U.S. |
| Died | December 25, 2015(2015-12-25) (aged 86) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
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| Years active | 1959–2015 |
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| Spouse | Lola Johnson (m. 1952) |
| Children | 2 |
George Clayton Johnson (July 10, 1929 – December 25, 2015) was an American science fiction writer, who co-wrote with William F. Nolan the novel Logan's Run, the basis for the MGM 1976 film. He also wrote television scripts for The Twilight Zone (including "Nothing in the Dark", "Kick the Can", "A Game of Pool", and "A Penny for Your Thoughts"), and the first telecast episode of Star Trek,
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One of the most fan-friendly pros ever, George Clayton Johnson passed away at 12:46 p.m PST on December 25 from cancer. He had been in hospice care in his final days and there were many premature reports of his death.
Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Johnson wrote that he loved reading the pulps “while surviving an Okie upbringing, a broken home, an alcoholic mother and institutional lockstep in a state orphanage with an occasional escape into a public library or a movie house.”
He briefly served as a telegraph operator and draftsman in the Army. Using his benefits under the G.I Bill he enrolled in an Alabama college, then dropped out to travel, supporting himself as a draftsman.
On coffee breaks working as a draftsman detailing wind-tunnels for U.S. Steel, and later the boss of my own drafting service in Van Nuys designing ticky tacky for the San Fernando Valley, and later still while hanging out, a beatnik-wild bird, faced with foreclosure and crab-grass in my G.I. home in Pacoima, trying to be a writer, I drove myself and all who met me into a frenzy over the ques
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