# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-eckstein
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:02:18.403Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-eckstein"
name: "George Eckstein"
slug: "george-eckstein"
description: "George Eckstein was an American writer and television producer whose career spanned three decades, from the early 1960s through the late 1980s. Eckstein was a producer of many popular television programs such as The Invaders and The Name of the Game, in addition to penning the scripts of many others, including Gunsmoke, and Cannon. He and Michael Zagor co-wrote The Fugitive final two part episode, \"The Judgment\" (1967). He was Executive Producer on the series Banacek. From the late 1970s onward, the bulk of Eckstein's producing work was on several made-for-TV movies and specials, with a year's stint as executive producer of the NBC series Love, Sidney in the midst."
tagline: "American television writer and producer (1928–2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/Cropped_Photo_of_George_Eckstein.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-05-03"
deathDate: "2009-09-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.510298666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248740/"
    handle:    "nm0248740"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eckstein"
    title: "George Eckstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جورج إيكستاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جورج ايكستاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eckstein"
    title: "George Eckstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eckstein"
    title: "George Eckstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1507277"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12416"
    title: "George Eckstein"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations