Harry Segall"s writing career spans 1933 to 1959. Segall"s plays, including Lost Horizons, appeared on Broadway in the mid-1930s. In 1933, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer brought Segall to Hollywood as a contract writer
In 1936, he moved to Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures where he wrote and co-wrote screenplays for films such as The Outcasts of Poker Flat, based on a story by Bret Harte and Blind Alibi, starring Richard Dix.
During this time, Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios also produced his screenplays. The play was later revived under the title Wonderful Journey, but the revival lasted only nine performances.
A 1978 film version of Heaven Can Wait starred Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, and James Mason. The play was most recently filmed as Down to Earth, a vehicle for Chris Rock.
A Technicolor sequel to Here Comes Mr.
Jordan, Down to Earth (no relation to the Chris Rock film) was released in 1947. lieutenant starred Rita Hayworth and Larry Parks. With the advent of television, Segall turned his writing talents to this medium, writing plots for television series and Playhouse 90.
He retired from screenwriting in 1959 and died November 25, 1975, in Woodland Hills, California.
Segall was interred in Roosevelt Cemetery, in Gardena, California.