---
name: "Harry Julian Fink"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-julian-fink"
fi1m_id: "harry-julian-fink"
imdb_id: "nm0277807"
tmdb_id: 14774
wikidata_id: "Q5670136"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "7 July 1923"
died: "8 August 2001"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:16:32.702159+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Harry Julian Fink

## Identity

Harry Julian Fink

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harry-julian-fink
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harry-julian-fink
- **IMDb ID:** nm0277807
- **TMDB ID:** 14774
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5670136
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Julian_Fink, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5670136, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0277807/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14774

Writer. Born 7 July 1923 in New York City. Died 8 August 2001.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 7 July 1923, New York City
- **Died:** 8 August 2001
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Julian_Fink, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5670136, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0277807/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14774

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dirty Harry* (1971), Fi1m 74, Story, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/dirty-harry.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Dead Pool* (1988), Characters
- *Sudden Impact* (1983), Characters
- *The Enforcer* (1976), Characters
- *Cahill: United States Marshal* (1973), Writer
- *Dirty Harry* (1971), Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/dirty-harry.md)
- *Big Jake* (1971), Writer
- *Ice Station Zebra* (1968), Screenstory
- *T.H.E. Cat* (1966), series, Creator
- *Major Dundee* (1965), Screenplay, Story
- *The Eleventh Hour* (1962), series, Writer
- *Tate* (1960), series, Creator

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