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name: "Rick Mittleman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rick-mittleman"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "18 April 1930"
died: "30 July 2014"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T16:27:47.155198+00:00"
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# Rick Mittleman

Writer. Born 18 April 1930 in New York, New York, USA. Died 30 July 2014.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 18 April 1930, New York, New York, USA
- **Died:** 30 July 2014
- **Also known as:** Richard B. Mittleman

## Biography

Rick Mittleman was an American television writer and producer. He began his career in the 1950s as a producer on the live audience-request series *You Asked for It* before moving into writing in the early 1960s.

Over five decades he contributed scripts to numerous series, including *Bewitched* (1964), *Get Smart* (1965), *Petticoat Junction* (1963), *M*A*S*H* (1972), *CHiPs* (1977) and *Jake and the Fatman* (1987). He wrote 30 episodes of *Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.* and also worked on *The Dick Van Dyke Show*, *The Mary Tyler Moore Show* and *The Odd Couple*. Mittleman received three Primetime Emmy nominations for his writing, on *The Red Skelton Show* (1963), *Arnie* (1971) and *Van Dyke and Company* (1976). He served on the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America and was awarded its Morgan Cox Award in 1997.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *M*A*S*H* (1972), Fi1m 85, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/m-a-s-h-1972.md)

## Also known for

- *Bewitched* (1964), Writer
- *Get Smart* (1965), Writer
- *CHiPs* (1977), Writer
- *Jake and the Fatman* (1987), Writer
- *Petticoat Junction* (1963), Writer

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