Howard Rodman

In 1976, he was presented with the Writers Guild's Laurel Award for lifetime achievement in television.

Rodman also created the David Janssen private eye series Harry O (1973).

As a feature writer, he scripted the Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward racing film, Winning (1969), and co-wrote three iconic feature films for director Don Siegel: Madigan (1968), Coogan's Bluff (1968), and Charley Varrick (1973). Rodman also wrote the teleplay adaptation of Martin Caidin's novel, 'The Six Million Dollar Man', essentially creating the television version of the character as well as supplying the format for the subsequent series. Dissatisfied with the final product he removed his name and substituted his pseudonym Henri Simoun, a frequent practice. Rodman was once quoted as saying, "The script isn't finished until the name comes off".

In the subsequent decades he won a trio of Writer's Guild awards for his scripts for Naked City: Today the Man Who Kills Ants Is Coming (1962), Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre: The Game with Glass Pieces (1964), and for the NBC/Universal Television drama, The Neon Ceiling (1971).

Howard Rodman was an American writer and story editor of such critically acclaimed series such as Naked City (1958) and Route 66 (1960).

He contributed to Have Gun - Will Travel (1957) and was an associate producer on Peyton Place (1964).

A Brooklyn native, the son of immigrant parents, Rodman began his career in the 1950s writing for such noted anthology series as Studio One, Alcoa Theater, and Goodyear Theater.