Dwight V. Babcock(1909-1979)
- Writer
Dwight Vincent Babcock, notable for his scripting of low-budget horror
movies for the major studios' B-units, began his writing career in the
dime pulps. He contributed sporadically for Black Mask (edited by the
legendary Joe "Cap" Shaw, who later became Babcock's agent) in the
1930s before succumbing to the allure and relative financial stability
of Hollywood. Knopf Publishing released three of his mildly successful
novels during the 1940s, but Babcock steadfastly rebuffed a career as a
novelist. After a distinguished screen writing career mostly spent in
the B-movie horror genre, Babcock took to television in earnest,
hammering out scores of scripts for Columbia Pictures' Screen Gems
division, which dominated the CBS programming landscape in the early
1960s. The prolific Babcock died at age 70 in 1979.
