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name: "Rik Vollaerts"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rik-vollaerts"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "6 June 1915"
died: "15 March 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T15:55:18.132084+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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# Rik Vollaerts

Writer. Born 6 June 1915 in Wouw, Netherlands. Died 15 March 1988.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 6 June 1915, Wouw, Netherlands
- **Died:** 15 March 1988

## Biography

Rik Vollaerts, born Hendrik Vollaerts, was a Dutch-born American screenwriter who worked primarily in television during the 1950s and 1960s. He was born on 6 June 1915 in Wouw, Netherlands, immigrated to the United States as a child, graduated from the University of Chicago, and became a naturalised US citizen in 1940. He died on 15 March 1988 in Mission Viejo, California.

Vollaerts wrote episodes for numerous series, including *Leave It to Beaver* (1957), *Batman* (1966), *Bonanza*, *Rawhide*, *Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea*, *Wagon Train*, *Lawman* and *Highway Patrol*. He contributed the story for the *Star Trek* episode 'For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky', which aired in 1968. He had previously worked with Gene Roddenberry on the 1950s series *Mr. District Attorney*.

*Sources: memory-alpha.fandom.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Star Trek* (1966), Fi1m 83, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-1966.md)

## Also known for

- *Batman* (1966), Writer
- *Leave It to Beaver* (1957), Story

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