Staunch anti-nuclear activist and supporter of Israel.
Children: daughters Robin, Rachel, and Ruth.
Attended Brown University on the GI Bill following military service in World War II.
American screenwriter, best known for political TV docu-dramas (which he referred to as 'theater of fact') and the seminal science fiction thriller Soylent Green (1973), based on Harry Harrison's 1966 book "Make Room, Make Room!".