Margolin, Arnold

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Margolin, Arnold

PERSONAL

Brother of Stuart Margolin (an actor).

Career:

Writer, producer, director, and actor.

Awards, Honors:

Emmy Award (with Charles Fox), outstanding achievement in music, lyrics, and special material, 1970, for theme music, Love, American Style; Emmy Award nominations (with others), outstanding comedy series, 1970, 1971, both for Love, American Style.

CREDITS

Film Appearances:

Dr. Whitehat, Young Doctors in Love, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1982.

Mr. Vanderway, Exit to Eden, Savoy Pictures, 1994.

Max, Bull Run, FireRock Entertainment, 2006.

Television Producer; Series:

The McLean Stevenson Show, NBC, 1976.

Supervising producer, Private Benjamin, CBS, 1981.

(And supervising producer) Growing Pains, ABC, 1985-86.

One Big Family, syndicated, 1986.

(And creator) A Family for Joe, NBC, 1990.

(And creator) Promised Land (also known as Land of the Brave), CBS, 1998-99.

Also executive producer of Love, American Style, ABC; and story editor, My Mother the Car, NBC.

Television Producer; Pilots:

(And director) Two Boys, NBC, 1970.

Going Places, NBC, 1973.

That's My Mama, ABC, 1974.

The Orphan and the Dude, ABC, 1975.

Harry and Maggie, CBS, 1975.

(And director) Walkin' Walter, ABC, 1977.

The Dooley Brothers, CBS, 1979.

Creator and executive producer, A Family for Joe, NBC, 1990.

Television Producer; Movies:

Between Love and Honor, CBS, 1995.

Television Director; Episodic:

"Love and the Spaced-Out Chick," Love, American Style, ABC, 1972.

Also directed episodes of Private Benjamin, CBS.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Dorian Dupree, He's Not Your Son, CBS, 1984.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Arnold, "Sizzling Sidney," Hey, Landlord, 1966.

Beatnik, "Czech Your Wife, Sir?," Hey, Landlord, 1967.

"Love and the Sack," Love, American Style, ABC, 1971.

"Love and the Hip Arrangement," Love, American Style, ABC, 1972.

Reverend Tebbits, "Finale," Promised Land (also known as Home of the Brave), CBS, 1999.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

Star Spangled Girl, Paramount, 1971.

Snowball Express, Buena Vista, 1972.

Russian Roulette, Avco Embassy, 1975.

The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the Sea World Adventure (also based on story by Margolin), Dualstar Productions, 1995.

The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the Mystery Cruise (also based on story by Margolin), Dualstar Productions, 1995.

Bull Run, FireRock Entertainment, 2006.

Television Movies:

A Good Sport, CBS, 1984.

He's Not Your Son, CBS, 1984.

Between Love and Honor, CBS, 1995.

Television Pilots:

Two Boys, 1970.

The Orphan and the Dude, ABC, 1975.

Harry and Maggie, CBS, 1975.

The Dooley Brothers, CBS, 1979.

A Family for Joe, NBC, 1990.

Television Episodes:

"Take a Tramp to Lunch This Week," The Smothers Brothers Show, CBS, 1965.

"It Don't Mean a Dang if It Ain't Got That Twang," The Smothers Brothers Show, CBS, 1965.

"Mr. Big Curtsies Out," Mr. Terrific, CBS, 1967.

"His Two Right Arms," Mary Tyler Moore (also known as The Mary Tyler Moore Show), CBS, 1972.

"Weekend Fantasy," Growing Pains, ABC, 1985.

"The Love Song of M. Aaron Seaver," Growing Pains, ABC, 1986.

One Big Family, syndicated, 1986.

"Vengeance Is Mine," War of the Worlds (also known as War of the Worlds: The Second Invasion), syndicated, 1989.

"Rain Dance," The Wild Thornberrys (animated), Nickelodeon, 1999.

Also writer for episodes of The Andy Griffith Show (also known as Andy of Mayberry), CBS; Love, American Style, ABC; My Mother the Car; O.K. Crackerby!; Private Benjamin, CBS; Promised Land (also known as Home of the Brave), CBS; Touched by an Angel, CBS; and Wind at My Back, CBC.