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Gene Roddenberry was born on August 19, 1921, in his parents' rented home in El Paso, Texas, the first child of Eugene Edward Roddenberry and Caroline "Glen" (née Golemon) Roddenberry. [1] The family moved to Los Angeles in 1923 after Gene's father passed the civil service test and was given a police commission there. [2]
The experience led to animosity between Ellison and Roddenberry for the rest of the latter's life, in particular over a dubious claim by Roddenberry that Ellison had the character Scotty dealing drugs in one version of the script. The episode went over budget by more than $50,000 and overran the production schedule.
Gene Roddenberry was born on August 19, 1921, in his parents' rented home in El Paso, Texas, the first child of Eugene Edward Roddenberry and Caroline "Glen" (née Goleman) Roddenberry. He was named after his father and referred to as "Little" Gene. Roddenberry would later describe his father as "very intelligent" but a "very common man". [2]
The Roddenberry Building on the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood. In 1985, Gene Roddenberry was the first television writer to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [2] He was given a Macintosh 128K by Apple Inc. in 1986, which was later upgraded by the company and re-designated as a Macintosh Plus with the production number of M-0001.
A.P.O. 923 was a proposed television series developed by Gene Roddenberry. A single episode "Operation Shangri-La" was filmed in 1962 as a pilot episode . Set during World War II , the series would have focused on slice of life stories of American servicemen stationed in the South Pacific.
In 1973, he served as co-writer with Gene Roddenberry on the NBC-TV movie The Questor Tapes. The movie was to serve as a pilot for a new series, but Roddenberry balked at a decision by NBC to eliminate the character of Jerry Robinson, Questor's human companion/mentor. (Coon died before the pilot aired in early 1974.)
The Gene Roddenberry foundation will award $1 million to an early-stage venture focused on harnessing artificial intelligence in service of humanity.
The Lieutenant is an American television series, the first created by Gene Roddenberry. An hour-long drama, it aired on NBC on Saturday evenings in the 1963–1964 television schedule. It was produced by Arena Productions , one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 's most successful in-house production companies of the 1960s.