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William Bast is an American writer, producer, and miscellaneous. He was born on April 3, 1931 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He is best known for his work on the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Six Million Dollar Man. Bast began his career as a writer for the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in 1964. He wrote several episodes of the show and served as a story editor for the first season. He also wrote for the series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. Bast has also written several books, including the novel The Catacombs (1966), the non-fiction book The Life and Times of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1968), and the novel The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Spy Who Stayed Out All Night (1970). Bast has been married twice. He was married to actress and singer Julie London from 1959 to 1969, and to actress and singer Linda Gray from 1972 to 1976. As of 2021, William Bast's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

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Occupation writer,producer,miscellaneous
Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 3 April, 1931
Birthday 3 April
Birthplace Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA
Date of death 4 May, 2015
Died Place Los Angeles, California, USA
Nationality United States

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1976

The biography was the basis of the 1976 TV movie James Dean (1976), produced and written by Bast, which portrayed Dean as a straight-skewed bisexual. In the TV movie, Bast -- a character in the teleplay who narrates the movie -- says that Dean's closest relationship had been with a woman, Liz Sheridan.

The 1976 telefilm has Dean encouraging Bast to go cruising for gay sex in the bar of New York's Astor Hotel in the name of gaining experience.

1956

William Bast, the Edgar-winning TV screenwriter, was the first biographer of cinema icon James Dean, his close friend and lover. Bast and Dean met and became friends and roommates while drama students at U. C. L. A. , and later roomed together in New York City. Bast first wrote about Dean a year after his death, in "James Dean: A Biography", which was published in 1956.

In addition to his 1956 biography, 2006 memoir and the 1976 TV movie, Bast also wrote a screenplay based on Dean's funeral for a 1958 British TV teleplay, "The Myth Makers" (1958).

1955

Thirty years later, Bast published a franker memoir of his relationship with cinema's iconic teenage rebel, "Surviving James Dean", in which he portrayed the late actor as a homosexual who likely would have entered into a committed, gay relationship with Bast if he had not been killed in a car crash on September 30, 1955.

1950

Bast refuted "Dizzy" Sheridan's contention that the couple were in love and briefly engaged, claiming he himself helped make up the myths of Dean as a bicurious straight due to the uptight 1950s.