Michael Morris (screenwriter)

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Michael Morris
Born
Misha Stuchkoff

(1918-01-07)January 7, 1918
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)TV/film screenwriter, radio performer, and actor
Years active1923-1981
Known forwrote episodes for such TV shows as [ Perry Mason ], The Andy Griffith Show, McHale's Navy, Sanford and Son and The Brady Bunch

and Perry Mason

Michael Morris (born Misha Stuczko, later Misha Stutchkoff; January 7, 1918 – died June 20, 2003) was an American television and film screenwriter, radio performer, and actor.

Life and career

Born of parents of a

Jewish background, Michael is the son of late writer, actor and radio show performer Nahum Stutchkoff, who wrote the "Thesaurus of the Yiddish Language" and other works. Michael was born in Kharkiv, then Russian Empire and now Ukraine
.

He emigrated with his parents to the

Los Angeles, California
, to continue his work in film and television, which he began in 1953, retiring in 1980.

Morris, who lived over the long course of his career in Hollywood, which spanned a period of three decades, from the early 1950s to the early 1980s, wrote episodes for such popular TV series as

All In The Family
.

His film writing credits included the Made-for-television films We'll Take Manhattan (1967) and Second Chance (1972) and the films Wild and Wonderful (1964) and For Love of Money (1963).

Morris died in

Los Angeles, California
.

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