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name: "Samuel Roeca"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/samuel-roeca"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "24 December 1919"
died: "17 June 2005"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T16:00:05.177272+00:00"
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# Samuel Roeca

Writer. Born 24 December 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Died 17 June 2005.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 24 December 1919, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- **Died:** 17 June 2005
- **Also known as:** Sam Roeca

## Biography

Samuel Roeca was an American screenwriter and television writer. Born on 24 December 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri, he began his career writing for feature films in the late 1940s and 1950s, with credits including *Racing Blood* (1954), *Sea Tiger* (1952) and *Angel Baby* (1961). He also served as associate producer on *Raiders of Old California* (1957).

Roeca later concentrated on episodic television. He wrote or provided teleplays for seven episodes of the series *Mission: Impossible* (1966) between 1971 and 1972, credited as Sam Roeca. Other television work included episodes of *Hawaii Five-O* (1968), *The Outer Limits* (1963), *Rawhide* (1959), *Ironside* and *Land of the Lost*, as well as the original story for the film *The Night Visitor* (1971). He died on 17 June 2005 in Placerville, California.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, grokipedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Also known for

- *Hawaii Five-O* (1969), Writer
- *The Outer Limits* (1963), Writer
- *The Night Visitor* (1971), Original Story

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