Ken Kolb obit

 Screenwriter Ken Kolb Has Died

He was not on the list.

Ken Kolb (full name: Kenneth Lloyd Kolb) was the only child of Fred and Ella Kolb. During World War II, he graduated from Gresham High in Oregon and joined the Navy to become a radar technician. In the fall of 1947, he entered the University of California on the G.I. Bill. His Theta Chi roommate introduced him to nursing student Emma Sanford and that was the beginning to a six-year courtship and 64 years of marriage. They were married in 1952 and spent the next two summers working on the Smith Peak Fire Lookout in Plumas County, California. Ken got started in the screenwriting business when Columbia hired him to write "The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad" (1958). Writing for TV provided enough income for him to indulge in his original ambition to be a novelist. His first novel was "Getting Straight" in 1967. "The Couch Trip" followed in 1970 and "Night Crossing" was published in 1974. The first two books were made into movies. By this time, Kolb and his wife had started a family and returned to Plumas County. In a house on Long Valley Creek in Cromberg, they raised their son Kevin and daughters Lauren and Kimrie. The Kolbs traveled to Europe, Mexico, New Zealand, Tahiti and Fiji. After the children were grown, he and Emma traveled (often with friends) to South America, Australia, China, Russia and the Canadian Rockies. "Ken always felt that Plumas County was the best place of all," according to his obituary in the Plumas News. It continued: "Ken felt good about his life. He was grateful for his wonderful wife and soulmate and the time they had together. He was thankful for his three beautiful children and his home in the peaceful countryside. He felt joyful and thankful for the friendships that nurtured his intellect and spirit. He was thankful to have lived the life he wanted. He died peacefully at his home with his loving family by his side."

 

Writer

Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, and Donna Dixon in The Couch Trip (1988)

The Couch Trip

5.8

novel

1988

 

Big Hawaii (1977)

Big Hawaii

5.7

TV Series

written by

1977

1 episode

 

Roddy McDowall, Carl Franklin, Ike Eisenmann, Jared Martin, and Katie Saylor in The Fantastic Journey (1977)

The Fantastic Journey

7.0

TV Series

writer

1977

1 episode

 

Future Cop (1976)

Future Cop

6.0

TV Series

story

teleplay

1977

1 episode

 

Sara

7.3

TV Series

written by

1976

1 episode

 

Claude Akins, Frank Converse, and Merle Haggard in Movin' On (1974)

Movin' On

7.3

TV Series

story

teleplay

written by

1974–1975

3 episodes

 

Raymond Burr and Barbara Sigel in Ironside (1967)

Ironside

6.9

TV Series

story

teleplay

1974

1 episode

 

Richard Roundtree in Shaft (1973)

Shaft

6.5

TV Series

writer

1973–1974

2 episodes

 

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969)

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

6.9

TV Series

written by

1972–1973

2 episodes

 

Snow Job (1972)

Snow Job

5.4

screenplay by

1972

 

Nichols (1971)

Nichols

7.7

TV Series

written by

1971

1 episode

 

Bracken's World (1969)

Bracken's World

6.9

TV Series

written by

1970

1 episode

 

Getting Straight (1970)

Getting Straight

6.3

novel

1970

 

Ted Cassidy, Lu Ann Haslam, Kevin Schultz, and Michael Shea in The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968)

The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

7.2

TV Series

teleplay (as Kenneth L. Kolb)

1968–1969

5 episodes

 

Kam Fong, Al Harrington, Jack Lord, and James MacArthur in Hawaii Five-O (1968)

Hawaii Five-O

7.4

TV Series

written by

1968

1 episode

 

Iron Horse (1966)

Iron Horse

7.1

TV Series

writer

1967

1 episode

 

Robert Conrad and Ross Martin in The Wild Wild West (1965)

The Wild Wild West

8.1

TV Series

writer

written by

1966–1967

7 episodes

 

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

7.6

TV Series

story

1966

1 episode

 

Anne Francis in Honey West (1965)

Honey West

7.5

TV Series

written by

1966

2 episodes

 

The F.B.I. (1965)

The F.B.I.

7.4

TV Series

story

teleplay

1965

1 episode

 

Valentine's Day (1964)

Valentine's Day

7.6

TV Series

written by

1964–1965

2 episodes

 

Dr. Kildare (1961)

Dr. Kildare

7.0

TV Series

written by

writer

1962–1964

2 episodes

 

Destry (1964)

Destry

7.3

TV Series

written by

1964

1 episode

 

Channing (1963)

Channing

7.2

TV Series

written by

1964

2 episodes

 

Wide Country (1962)

Wide Country

8.0

TV Series

written by

1962–1963

2 episodes

 

Empire (1962)

Empire

7.9

TV Series

writer

1963

1 episode

 

John McIntire in Wagon Train (1957)

Wagon Train

7.5

TV Series

story

writer

1962

2 episodes

 

Ben Casey (1961)

Ben Casey

7.1

TV Series

written by

1962

1 episode

 

Ronald Reagan in General Electric Theater (1953)

General Electric Theater

6.8

TV Series

written by

teleplay

teleplay & story

1960–1961

5 episodes

 

The only authorized DVD edition of all episodes in  Season One.

The Rifleman

8.3

TV Series

story

written by

1958–1960

4 episodes

 

The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1960)

The Case of the Dangerous Robin

8.1

TV Series

written by

1960

1 episode

 

Mr. Lucky (1959)

Mr. Lucky

7.6

TV Series

written by

1960

1 episode

 

Gardner McKay in Adventures in Paradise (1959)

Adventures in Paradise

8.2

TV Series

story

writer

1959–1960

2 episodes

 

The Lineup (1954)

The Lineup

8.1

TV Series

writer

1959

1 episode

 

Dragnet (1951)

Dragnet

7.5

TV Series

written by

writer

teleplay

1957–1959

13 episodes

 

The D.A.'s Man (1959)

The D.A.'s Man

7.6

TV Series

story by

written by

1959

4 episodes

 

Black Saddle (1959)

Black Saddle

7.9

TV Series

written by

1959

1 episode

 

Richard Eyer, Dal McKennon, Kathryn Grant, Enzo Musumeci Greco, and Kerwin Mathews in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

7.0

written by (as Kenneth Kolb)

1958

 

Craig Stevens in Peter Gunn (1958)

Peter Gunn

8.0

TV Series

teleplay

1958

1 episode

 

Have Gun - Will Travel (1957)

Have Gun - Will Travel

8.4

TV Series

written by

teleplay

1957–1958

11 episodes

 

The Court of Last Resort (1957)

The Court of Last Resort

7.3

TV Series

written by

1957–1958

3 episodes

 

Richard Boone in Medic (1954)

Medic

8.2

TV Series

written by

1956

4 episodes