Norman Jolley(1916-2002)
- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Actor and prominent television writer, educated at the University of
Wisconsin with an engineering background that he used to advantage in
writing his "Space Patrol" scripts. Beginning as a film and television
actor, his writing talents came to the forefront while portraying
'Agent X' on "Space Patrol". The producer asked Jolley to contribute
scripts, and his 'Agent X' character was retired by being forced into
"permanent suspended animation" on the series. As the chief writer,
Jolley created many of the "Space Patrol" concepts, including weaponry
and such substances as 'endurium' and 'raydurium', and he always
insisted that the storylines must never violate actual fact. After
"Space Patrol" ended, he formed Bartlett-Jolley Productions in 1956
with ex-actor Dick Bartlett (who directed the scripts Jolley would
write, with both men producing), which went on to produce eight
pictures for Universal-International by 1958.
