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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Mort Fine papers
Creator:
Fine, Morton
Identifier/Call Number: PASC.0076
Physical Description:
29.0 linear feet
(68 boxes, 1 shoe box, and 1 flat box)
Date (inclusive): 1942-1982
Abstract: There is little biographical information available about Mort Fine. Morton Fine was born in 1916. He teamed with with David
Friedkin in the 1940s and together they collaborated on a number of successful radio, television and motion pictue projects
over the years. Among their radio projects are
Bold Venture,
Crime Classics,
Broadway is My Beat, and
Suspense. By the 1950s the team made the transistion to motion pictures with credits that included
Handle with Care and
The Pawn Broker, among others. They eventually produced and developed the televsion series
I Spy and
The Most Deadly Game. Among the many other Mort Fine credits are the radio programs
Adventures of Johnny Fletcher,
Adventures of Sam Spade, and
Escape; the television series
Kojak,
McCloud, and
Streets of San Francisco; and the motion pictures
The Greek Tycoon and
Caboblanco. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on
I Spy, and won the Writers Guild Best Written Drama (with Fridekin) for
The Pawnbroker (1966). Mort Fine died in 1991.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mort Fine 1978, 1980, 1984. Additions are the gift of Michael Vernon, 2013.
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[Identification of item], Mort Fine Papers (Collection PASC 76). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography/History
There is little biographical information available about Mort Fine. Morton Fine was born in 1916. He teamed with with David
Friedkin in the 1940s and together they collaborated on a number successful radio, television and motion pictue projects over
the years. Among their radio projects are
Bold Venture,
Crime Classics,
Broadway is My Beat, and
Suspense. By the 1950s the team made the transistion to motion pictures with credits that included
Handle with Care and
The Pawn Broker, among others. They eventually produced and developed the televsion series
I Spy and
The Most Deadly Game. Among the many other Mort Fine credits are the radio programs
Adventures of Johnny Fletcher,
Adventures of Sam Spade, and
Escape; the television series
Kojak,
McCloud, and
Streets of San Francisco; and the motion pictures
The Greek Tycoon and
Caboblanco. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on
I Spy, and won the Writers Guild Best Written Drama (with Fridekin) for
The Pawnbroker (1966). Mort Fine died in 1991.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of materials related to the career of writer and producer, Mort Fine. The bulk of collection are
scripts, many in bound volumes, for radio, television and motion picture projects. Also included is a very small amount of
production information, clippings, ephemera, stories, articles, and other writings by Fine and a small amount of business
correspondence and agreements. Among the many radio projects represented in the collection are the series
The Adventures of Johnny Fletcher,
The Adventures of Sam Spade,
Bold Venture,
Broadway's My Beat, and
Crime Classics. Television projects include
Kojak and
The Most Deadly Game among others. Motion Picture projects include
Cabo Blanco,
Greek Tycoon,
The Pawnbroker,
That Championship Season, and others.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Radio Projects
- Television Projects
- Motion Pictures Projects
- Project Files
- Business Records
- Unidentified Projects
- Short stories, Articles, and Other Writings
Related Material
Mort Fine Papers . Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Radio writers -- United States -- Archives.
Screenwriters -- United States -- Archives.
Television writers -- United States -- Archives.
Fine, Morton -- Archives
Fine, Morton