Jerry Sohl
Gerald Allan Sohl Sr. ( born December 2, 1913 in Los Angeles, California, † November 4, 2002 in Thousand Oaks, California ) was an American screenwriter and writer.
Filmmaking
Jerry Sohl attended Central College in Chicago, made from 1942 to 1945 his military service in the U.S. Air Force and then worked as a journalist and photographer for the "Daily Telegraph" in Bloomington. In 1958 he became a freelance writer and returned to California. Debuted he had in 1952 with the novel The haploid, which tells of a man-hating scientist who tries to create a world by means of parthenogenesis, both men as well as to be non-violent.
Sohl, who often wrote under his pseudonym Nathan Butler, Sean Sullivan and Roberta Jean Mei Mountjoy, especially in the 1960s, was a sought-after author of science fiction and horror movies. So he wrote Amazing Stories, The Man from Atlantis, The Invaders, The Outer Limits, Merciless city and Star Trek, among others, for the television series.
He also wrote the screenplays for twelve hours lurking death of 1960 and The Witch of Count Dracula in 1968.
Jerry Sohl, who has also performed as a concert pianist, died at the age of 88 of natural causes.