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He attended Columbia and New York Universities and began his career in television by working as a pageboy at National Broadcasting Company studios.
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Robert Scoyk
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Beginning in New York and moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s, his credits included The Virginian, Banacek, Young Maverick, Flying High, Rafferty, Ellery Queen and Murder, She Wrote. In 1979 Robert van Scoyk received an Edgar Allan Poe Award for the Columbo episode Murder Under Glass Born in Dayton, Ohio, van Scoyk served in the United States Army Air Corps during the last months of World World War World War II New York At that time he was also writing a column for the Dayton Daily News, about life as a struggling radio and television writer in Manhattan. New York gossip columnist Earl Wilson helped his career by regularly recounting van Scoyk"s adventures in his own column.
Van Scoyk’s break came when he wrote a script for National Broadcasting Company"s The New Faces, a revue show produced by the National Broadcasting Company pages in the late 1940s.
He went on to write for The Ann Sothern Show, The Imogene Coca Show, United States. Steel Hour, Philco Theatre and Kraft Theatre, as well as Ivanhoe and The Betty Hutton Show. Los Angeles In the 1960s van Scoyk moved to Los Angeles where he wrote, adapted, produced and story edited a wide range of television series and made-for-television movies, equally at home with comedy, Western, musical comedy, melodrama, medical drama, mystery and detective genres.
He is perhaps best remembered for his involvement as writer, producer, executive producer and/or story editor for such shows as The Virginian, Banacek, Young Maverick, Flying High, Rafferty, Ellery Queen and, for the 12 years of its 1984-1996 run and after, Murder, She Wrote. In 1979 Robert van Scoyk received an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the Columbo episode Murder Under Glass, starring Peter Falk and Louis Jourdan.
Robert van Scoyk died in Los Angeles, California on August 23, 2002 of complication from diabetes.
He was 74.
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