Howard Berk(1924-2016)

Writer
Producer
Script and Continuity Department

Howard Berk was born on 22 July 1924 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Columbo (1971), Mission: Impossible (1966) and Target (1985). He died on 27 March 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Awards
- 1 nomination total

Known for

Columbo

8.3

TV Series

Writer

Mission: Impossible

7.9

TV Series

Writer

Target

5.9

Writer

1985

The Last Guerrilla

5.5

Writer

1974

Credits

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Writer

The New Mike Hammer
6.9
TV Series
- writer
- teleplay
- 1986–1987
The Fall Guy
7.1
TV Series
- written by
- executive story consultant
- 1983–1986
Target
5.9
- screenplay by
- 1985
Masquerade
6.7
TV Series
- story by
- 1984
The Red-Light Sting
5.0
TV Movie
- teleplay
- television story
- 1984
The Devlin Connection
6.2
TV Series
- written by
- 1982
Cassie & Co.
5.9
TV Series
- writer
- 1982
Advice to the Lovelorn
4.4
TV Movie
- writer
- 1981
The Contender
7.6
TV Mini Series
- Writer
- 1980
Mrs. Columbo
5.7
TV Series
- written by
- teleplay
- executive story consultant
- 1979
Brenda Starr, Reporter
7.8
TV Movie
- Writer
- 1979
Columbo
8.3
TV Series
- written by
- 1974–1978
3-Way Split
3.8
- Writer
- 1976
McMillan & Wife
7.2
TV Series
- written by
- 1974–1976
Barbary Coast
6.8
TV Series
- written by
- 1975

Producer

Script and Continuity Department

Personal details

Born
- July 22, 1924
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Died
- March 27, 2016
- Los Angeles, California, USA

Did you know

Trivia
He lied about how old he was so he could join the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943. Berk, then a 16-year-old just out of high school in Brookline, Massachusetts, he already had a pilot's license and wound up a bomber pilot in the China-Burma-India Theater. He carries another card that identifies him as a lifetime member of the Hump Pilots Association, the ''Hump'' being the Himalayas, over which Berk and other allied pilots flew supplies to forces battling the Japanese.