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name: "Shimon Wincelberg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shimon-wincelberg"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "26 September 1924"
died: "29 September 2004"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T18:09:52.723556+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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# Shimon Wincelberg

Writer. Born 26 September 1924 in Kiel. Died 29 September 2004.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 26 September 1924, Kiel
- **Died:** 29 September 2004
- **Active:** 1966–1990

## Biography

Shimon Wincelberg was a television scriptwriter and playwright. Born in Kiel, Germany, in 1924, he emigrated to the United States in 1938 and later served in combat intelligence with the US Army during the Second World War. He began his writing career in the early 1950s with short stories for magazines including the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar.

Wincelberg wrote or co-wrote scripts for numerous television series from the 1950s onwards, often under pseudonyms such as S. Bar-David. His credits include two episodes of *Star Trek* (1966), episodes of *Lost in Space* (1965), *The Time Tunnel* (1966), *Gunsmoke* (1955), *Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea* (1964), *The Wild Wild West* (1965), *Planet of the Apes* (1974), *Dynasty* (1981) and *Law & Order* (1990). He also wrote the 1959 Broadway play *Kataki* and another play, *Windows of Heaven* (1962). Wincelberg died in Los Angeles in 2004.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Law & Order* (1990), Story, Teleplay

## Also known for

- *The Time Tunnel* (1966), Teleplay, Story
- *Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea* (1964), Writer
- *Lost in Space* (1965), Writer, Story
- *Dynasty* (1981), Writer
- *Gunsmoke* (1955), Writer
- *Planet of the Apes* (1974), Writer
- *The Wild Wild West* (1965), Writer
- *Man from Atlantis* (1977), Writer

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