Benedict Freedman dies at 92

Benedict Freedman, a mathematics professor at L.A.'s Occidental College who also composed movie and tv scripts, additionally to books, died Feb. 24 in Corte Madera, Calif. He was 92.Freedman written 10 books along with his wife, Nancy, one of these simple, the bestseller "Mrs. Mike," was modified in to a 1949 feature film starring Dick Powell and Evelyn Keyes. It and film were using the true story from the Mountie and also the wife in Canada's remote far north. "Mrs. Mike" remains in guides.As he was married in 1941, Freedman have been a showbiz veteran. He dropped from Columbia U. at 16 to help support his family, prone to behave as a comedy author for radio. The happy couple met at MGM, where Freedman will be a author and Nancy a young actress.His bigscreen efforts incorporated the 1954 sci-fi comedy "The Atomic Kid," scripted by Freedman and John Fenton Murray in the story by Blake Edwards. It saw Mickey Rooney's character remade with the pressure from the nuclear blast. Freedman paired again with Murray round the original script for 1956 B-movie adventure "Jaguar" and again on 1961 comedy "Everything's Ducky," starring Rooney and Buddy Hackett as ocean adventurers who sneak a speaking duck onto their ship.Freedman written scripts for television shows including "The Mickey Rooney Show," "The Red-colored-colored Skelton Hour," "The Andy Griffith Show" and "The Most Popular Martian."He was produced in NY City, to David Freedman, a author for radio and Broadway, and also the wife, Beatrice, a violinist.He increased to become math wizzard only after returning to college, this time around around UCLA, within the late 40s.Nancy died this season. Freedman is managed to get by three children eight grandchildren four great-grandchildren together with a sister. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com