Richard Alan Simmons


Richard Alan Simmons was a Canadian-American screenwriter.
Simmons was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. After the war, he graduated from the University of Toronto and then moved to California for a job with NBC radio, writing news and radio dramas. He moved into movies.
He wrote the 1961 TV script for "The Price of Tomatoes" episode on "The [Dick Powell Show]", which was nominated for a writing Emmy and won an Emmy for star Peter Falk.
He had a wife, Emily, to whom he was married for 53 years. At the time of his death, he had three children, and three grandchildren.

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