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name: "Robert Guy Barrows"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "9 February 1926"
died: "31 January 2008"
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average_fi1m_score: 83
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# Robert Guy Barrows

Writer. Born 9 February 1926 in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Died 31 January 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 9 February 1926, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
- **Died:** 31 January 2008
- **Active:** 1963–1966
- **Works often with:** Alexander Singer, Arthur Weiss, Chester Krumholz, Daniel B. Ullman, Gerald Mayer, Howard Browne

## Biography

Robert Guy Barrows (9 February 1926 – 31 January 2008) was an American television writer. He contributed episodes to numerous series in the 1960s and early 1970s, including *The Fugitive* (1965), *Mission: Impossible* (1967), *The Green Hornet* (1966–1967), *The Virginian* (1967), *Daniel Boone* (1967) and *Bonanza* (1967). He frequently collaborated on scripts with his second wife, Judith Barrows.

Barrows was born in Fort Collins, Colorado. After serving in the US Army during the Second World War, he studied at the University of Colorado and UCLA, later teaching playwriting and theatre arts at New York University and UCLA. He also produced the controversial 1968 Los Angeles staging of Michael McClure’s play *The Beard*, which led to repeated arrests and a landmark free-speech case. His television output declined after Judith’s death in 1970.

*Sources: imdb.com, missionimpossible.fandom.com, variety.com, latimes.com, classictvhistory.wordpress.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Mission: Impossible* (1966), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/mission-impossible-1966.md)
- *The Fugitive* (1963), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-fugitive-1963.md)

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