Robert van Scoyk
| Robert van Scoyk | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Robert Elseworth van Scoyk January 13, 1928 Dayton, Ohio, US |
| Died | August 23, 2002 (aged 74) Los Angeles, California, US |
| Other names | Bob van Scoyk, Rovert van Scoyk |
| Occupation | Writer, producer, story editor |
| Years active | 1940s-1990s |
| Spouse(s) | 1. Patricia Schauder, ?- 1971 (her death) 2. Leona Plotkin, ?-2002 (his death) |
| Children | Robert Van Scoyk, Andrew Van Scoyk, and Matt Tyrnauer, film director and journalist |
Robert van Scoyk (January 13, 1928 – August 23, 2002) was a television writer, producer and story editor active during the Golden Age of Television from the late 1940s until the late 1990s.
Beginning in New York and moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s, his credits included The Virginian, Banacek, Young Maverick, Flying High, Rafferty, Ellery Queen and Murder, She Wrote.
In 1979 Robert van Scoyk received an Edgar Allan Poe Award for the Columbo episode Murder Under Glass.
Born in Dayton, Ohio, to Robert Van Scoyk and Gertrude Wardlow, he wrote for local radio before joining the United States Army Air Corps during the last months of World War II. After the war he attended Columbia and New York Universities and began his career in television by working as a pageboy at NBC studios.
He married Patricia Schauder and they had two sons. She died in 1971 at age 42 and he later married Leona Plotkin.
At that time he was also writing a column for the Dayton Daily News, about life as a struggling radio and TV writer in Manhattan. New York gossip columnist Earl Wilson helped his career by regularly recounting van Scoyk's adventures in his own column. Van Scoyk’s first writing credit, together with partner Allan Manings, was for the Imogene Coca Show.
His break came when he wrote a script for NBC's The New Faces, a revue show produced by the NBC pages in the late 1940s. He went on to write for The Ann Sothern Show, The Imogene Coca Show, U.S. Steel Hour, Philco Theatre, Armstrong Circle Theater and Kraft Theatre, as well as Ivanhoe and The Betty Hutton Show.
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