Screenwriter/author Ted Berkman, 92
Posted: Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 11:38 amScreenwriter and author Ted Berkman, whose film credits include “Bedtime for Bonzo” and “Fear Strikes Out,” has died. He was 92.
Berkman died May 12 of cancer in Santa Barbara, said his nephew, Joel Blau.
Berkman worked as a photo assignment editor at the New York Mirror, Middle East chief of the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service and as an ABC radio correspondent in the Middle East.
In 1962, he wrote “Cast a Giant Shadow: The Story of Mickey Marcus, Who Died to Save Jerusalem,” a best-selling biography of the West Point graduate who was a military adviser to Israel during the 1948 War of Independence. Kirk Douglas starred in a 1966 film based on the book. … Read full obituary
