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name: "Jack Turley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jack-turley"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "21 July 1927"
died: "19 January 2021"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T16:00:26.241540+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."
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# Jack Turley

Writer. Born 21 July 1927 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Died 19 January 2021.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 21 July 1927, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- **Died:** 19 January 2021

## Biography

Jack Turley was an American screenwriter and television writer. Born on 21 July 1927 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he died on 19 January 2021.

His credits included episodes of *The Fugitive* (1963), *Rawhide* (1959), *Bonanza* (1964–1967), *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.* (1964), *Lost in Space* (1965), *Hawaii Five-O* (1969), *Land of the Giants* (1968), *Cannon* (1971–1975), *Baretta* (1975), *The Love Boat* (1977), *Knots Landing* (1979) and *General Hospital* (1980–1990). He also wrote the screenplay for the film *Empire of the Ants* (1977).

Turley received a nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team for his work on *General Hospital*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Fugitive* (1963), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-fugitive-1963.md)

## Also known for

- *The Love Boat* (1977), Writer
- *Hawaii Five-O* (1969), Writer
- *Lost in Space* (1965), Writer
- *Empire of the Ants* (1977), Screenplay
- *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.* (1964), Writer
- *Land of the Giants* (1968), Writer
- *Rawhide* (1959), Writer
- *Knots Landing* (1979), Writer

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