- Adapted his screenplay of Vincitori e vinti (1961) for a stage production on Broadway, featuring Maximilian Schell, who had won an Academy Award for the 1961 movie version, in a different role (2001).
- He became interested in the 1946 Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, and wrote a script for a television program about it. Subsequently, he was determined to write his first film screenplay about the trials.
- His father was a jeweler of Russian Jewish descent.
- Died just one day after Richard Widmark, one of the stars of Vincitori e vinti (1961).
- After serving in the US Army, he started writing scripts for television dramas.
- Won an Emmy and a Writer's Guild of America Award for "The Marcus Nelson Murders", the TV pilot which introduced the popular television series "Kojak", and which catapulted Telly Savalas to stardom.
- Much of his writing deals with political subjects, notably the machinations of the American judicial system, and with minority groups subjected to prejudice and injustices.
- Attended Temple University and New York University.
- Had a son.
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