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name: "Hilary Bader"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hilary-bader"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "27 April 1952"
died: "7 November 2002"
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average_fi1m_score: 81
updated: "2026-09-16T23:35:47.744852+00:00"
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# Hilary Bader

Writer. Born 27 April 1952 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Died 7 November 2002.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 27 April 1952, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- **Died:** 7 November 2002
- **Active:** 1987–1995
- **Also known as:** Hilary J. Bader
- **Works often with:** James Kahn, Paul Lynch, Peter Allan Fields

## Biography

Hilary Bader (also credited as Hilary J. Bader) was an American television scriptwriter and comic book writer. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 27 April 1952 and died in Duarte, California, on 7 November 2002.

She studied mathematics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and mime in Paris. After touring the United States performing story theatre, she moved to Los Angeles and began writing for television, starting as a Writers Guild intern and contributing freelance scripts to *Star Trek: The Next Generation*.

Bader wrote episodes of *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine*, *Star Trek: Voyager*, *Xena: Warrior Princess*, *Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman* and animated series including *Superman: The Animated Series*, *The New Batman Adventures* and *Batman Beyond*. She won two Daytime Emmy Awards for the latter two programmes, was nominated seven times in total, and wrote 38 books for DC Comics as well as episodes of the web series *Gotham Girls*.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Xena: Warrior Princess* (1995), Fi1m 74, Teleplay, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/xena-warrior-princess.md)
- *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* (1993), Fi1m 85, Story — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-deep-space-nine.md)
- *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1987), Fi1m 83, Story, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-the-next-generation.md)

## Also known for

- *Star Trek: Voyager* (1995), Writer
- *Jackie Chan Adventures* (2000), Writer
- *Batman Beyond* (1999), Writer
- *Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman* (1993), Writer
- *The New Batman Adventures* (1997), Writer
- *Superman: The Animated Series* (1996), Writer
- *Young Hercules* (1998), Writer, Teleplay
- *Silk Stalkings* (1991), Writer

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