Shimon Wincelberg was an American

United States

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 television writer and Broadway playwright.

Born in Kiel

Kiel

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, Germany

Germany

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, he wrote for many 1960s and 1970s television shows including Naked City

Naked City (TV series)

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic "semi-documentary" format....

, Mannix

Mannix

Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors...

, Police Woman

Police Woman (TV series)

Police Woman is an American television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to March 29, 1978.-Synopsis:...

, Star Trek

Star Trek: The Original Series

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("The Galileo Seven" and "Dagger of the Mind"), Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke

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, Have Gun — Will Travel

Have Gun — Will Travel

Have Gun — Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated either number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings during each year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio...

, The Paper Chase

The Paper Chase (TV series)

The Paper Chase is a television series based on a 1970 novel by John Jay Osborn, Jr., as well as a 1973 film based on the novel. It follows the lives of law student James T. Hart and his classmates at Harvard Law School.-Production:...

and Lost in Space

Lost in Space

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. He also wrote in the 1990s for Law & Order

Law & Order

Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...

. He also wrote the 1959 Broadway play Kataki starring Sessue Hayakawa

Sessue Hayakawa

was a Japanese and American Issei actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films. Hayakawa was the first and one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States as well as Europe. Between the mid-1910s and the late 1920s, he was as well known as actors...

 and Ben Piazza.

He wrote under the nom de plume of S. Bar-David, Shimon Bar-David, Simon Wincelberg, and Simon Winvelberg.

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