Gilbert Ralston

Gilbert Alexander Ralston (January 5, 1912–March 18, 1999) was a British-American screenwriter, journalist and author. He was a television producer in the 1950s and a screenwriter in the 1960s. He created the television series The Wild Wild West and wrote scripts for Star Trek, Gunsmoke, Ben Casey, I Spy, Hawaii Five-O, and The Naked City. He wrote the screenplay for the 1971 movie Willard, which was based on the 1968 novel Ratman's Notebooks written by Stephen Gilbert. 2Early life and career Ralston was born in 1912 in Newcastle, Ireland (now Northern Ireland) in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (now the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) In the 1950s he worked as a television producer in the United States. In the 1960s, he worked as a television screenwriter, according to the IMDB website. Willard was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1972 for Best Motion Picture. He died on March 18, 1999, in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, of congestive heart failure. 2Television screenwriter Ralston was a screenwriter for many of the top television shows in the United States in the 1960s. He wrote the 1967 Star Trek episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?", which is a line from the 1821 elegiac poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonai