Biography
George Kirgo was an American screenwriter, author and humorist. Born George Blumenthal in Hartford, Connecticut, on 26 March 1926, he was educated at Wesleyan University and served in the US Army Air Forces during the Second World War. He began writing for television in the mid-1950s and moved to Hollywood in 1962.
Kirgo wrote episodes of numerous series, including The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970), Room 222, My Mother the Car and Love, American Style. His feature-film credits include the screenplays for Spinout (1966), Red Line 7000 (1965) and Don't Make Waves (1967). He also wrote more than a dozen television movies.
Kirgo served as president of the Writers Guild of America, West, from 1987 to 1991 and led the guild during its 1988 strike. He received the guild’s Morgan Cox Award in 2001. He died in Santa Monica, California, on 22 August 2004.
