Biography
Harry Julian Fink was an American screenwriter. He began writing for radio in his teens and contributed to the series Suspense. He later wrote for television programmes in the 1950s and 1960s, and created the series T.H.E. Cat and Tate.
His first film credit was the screenplay for Major Dundee (1965). He also provided the screen story for Ice Station Zebra (1968). With his wife Rita M. Fink he wrote the story and screenplay for Dirty Harry (1971), as well as Big Jake (1971) and Cahill: United States Marshal (1973). He received story credit on the later Dirty Harry films Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983) and The Dead Pool (1988).
Fink died on 8 August 2001 in La Jolla, California.
