Biography
Mann Rubin (11 December 1927 – 12 October 2013) was an American film and television screenwriter. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he served in the US Army from 1945 to 1947 and earned a BA from New York University in 1952. He began his career writing science fiction stories for DC Comics titles including Mystery in Space and Strange Adventures, and later contributed to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
Rubin wrote for numerous television series from the late 1940s to the 1990s, with credits including episodes of Studio One in Hollywood, Tales of Tomorrow, Perry Mason, The Fugitive (1963), Mission: Impossible (1966), The Rockford Files and Dynasty. His feature film work included the screenplay for The Best of Everything (1959, co-written with Edith Sommer), Brainstorm (1965), Warning Shot (1967), An American Dream (1966) and The First Deadly Sin (1980). He also taught screenwriting at the University of Southern California for more than ten years.
