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Feb 21, 1994 · Lois Peyser, a writer for television series including "My Three Sons" and "Mission: Impossible" and a pioneer in the teaching of screenwriting, died on Friday at her home in Brentwood. She was...
Feb 22, 1994 · Lois Peyser. By Variety Staff. Lois Peyser, an award-winning writer on such TV series as “My Three Sons” and “Mission: Impossible” and a pioneer in the teaching of screenwriting, has died....
Lois Peyser was born on 3 March 1923 in New Jersey, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for Mission: Impossible (1966), The Trouble with Girls (1969) and My Favorite Martian (1963). She was married to Arnold Peyser. She died on 18 February 1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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- March 3, 1923
- Lois Peyser
- February 18, 1994
Feb 19, 1994 · Feb. 19, 1994 12 AM PT. Lois Peyser, an award-winning screenwriter and the first person hired to teach that subject when the American Film Institute began offering writing classes, died Friday...
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Arnold and Lois Peyser were a prominent television husband-and-wife writing team from the Sixties.
Born on April 23, 1921, Arnold Peyser grew up in New York City and began his writing career for radio comedian Fred Allen, his career later turning to television with his wife, Lois, who was born March 3, 1923 in New Jersey. Lois was hired by the American Film Institute in 1972 to start its first screenwriting class. She also taught in Brussels, Moscow and Stockholm and was a consultant for the Directing Women's Workshops. Together, she and Arnold wrote episodes of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "My Favorite Martian," "Gilligan's Island," "Love, American Style," "Mission: Impossible" "The Brady Bunch" and "My Three Sons," also venturing into films with the 1969 Elvis Presley film, "The Trouble With Girls."
Arnold went on to write a novel, "The Squirrelcage," about the experience of a troubled boy named Paul committed to a psychiatric unit by his parents. Lois, however, died in 1994 of ovarian cancer, and Fred went on to pen two nostalgic plays about the Fred Allen show, "From Boston to Portland: The Fred Allen Story," produced at Boston's Lyric Stage in 1993, and "Mr. Allen, Mr. Allen," starring Jack Riley at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks in 1999.
Sadly, Arnold passed away July 14, 2001 in his home in Los Angeles, California. He was survived by two sons, a sister and three grandchildren.
Writer: Mission: Impossible. Lois Peyser was born on 3 March 1923 in New Jersey, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for Mission: Impossible (1966), The Trouble with Girls (1969) and My Favorite Martian (1963). She was married to Arnold Peyser. She died on 18 February 1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Jul 7, 2001 · Peyser, who with his late wife, Lois, scripted such indelible series as “The Brady Bunch,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “My Three Sons,” died Sunday of cancer at his home in Brentwood.
