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name: "Paul Playdon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-playdon"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "14 January 1943"
died: "12 May 2023"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T15:58:35.939095+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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# Paul Playdon

Writer. Born 14 January 1943 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK. Died 12 May 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 14 January 1943, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
- **Died:** 12 May 2023

## Biography

Paul Playdon was a British-American television writer and producer. He was born on 14 January 1943 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, and died on 12 May 2023 in Silicon Beach, Los Angeles, California. He began his career as a child actor, appearing in episodes of *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* and uncredited roles in films including *Gaby* (1956) and *Merry Andrew* (1958).

Playdon wrote for numerous American television series from the 1960s onwards. His credits include multiple episodes of *Mission: Impossible* (1966), for which he also served as script consultant; *Cannon* (1971); *Hawaii Five-O* (1969); *Battlestar Galactica* (1978); *CHiPs* (1977), which he developed for television; *The Wild Wild West* (1965); and *Kolchak: The Night Stalker* (1974). He worked as a story editor on *Garrison's Gorillas* (1967) and as a producer on series including *The Magician* (1973) and *Banacek* (1972).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.battlestarwiki.org, hmssweblog.wordpress.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Mission: Impossible* (1966), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/mission-impossible-1966.md)

## Also known for

- *Battlestar Galactica* (1978), Writer
- *Hawaii Five-O* (1969), Writer
- *CHiPs* (1977), Writer
- *Combat!* (1962), Writer
- *Kolchak: The Night Stalker* (1974), Writer
- *The Wild Wild West* (1965), Writer
- *Cannon* (1971), Writer

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