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Gabrielle Upton(1921-2022)

  • Writer
  • Actress
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Gabrielle Upton, Canada, 1922, was a screenwriter for various motion pictures and daytime serials and an actress. Ms. Upton was head writer and thrice nominated for Writer's Guild of America Outstanding Writing Achievement Awards for the daytime serials Love of Life (under pseudonym Gillian Houghton) and the Secret Storm. She has over forty prime-time TV scripts to her credit as well. Ms. Upton specialized in medical, legal and suspense shows. Her first major motion picture solo writer's credit was for the initial "Gidget" movie with Sandra Dee in 1959. This movie was followed by several more including Escape From East Berlin in 1962 and The Beach Boys: An American Band in 1985.
Born1921
DiedSeptember 13, 2022
Born1921
DiedSeptember 13, 2022
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    • 3 nominations total

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Marla Adams, Nicolas Coster, Christina Crawford, and Jada Rowland in The Secret Storm (1954)
The Secret Storm
5.5
TV Series
  • Writer(as Gillian Houghton)
Love of Life (1951)
Love of Life
7.4
TV Series
  • Writer
Christine Kaufmann and Don Murray in Escape from East Berlin (1962)
Escape from East Berlin
6.7
  • Writer
  • 1962
One Step Beyond (1959)
One Step Beyond
7.8
TV Series
  • Writer

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Writer

  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
    Alfred Hitchcock Presents
    7.7
    TV Series
    • story
    • 1985
  • Jane Krakowski, Matthew Ashford, Domini Blythe, Colleen Dion, Terri Eoff, David Forsyth, Lee Godart, Louan Gideon, Marcia McCabe, Jeffrey Meek, Jacqueline Schultz, and Mary Stuart in Search for Tomorrow (1951)
    Search for Tomorrow
    7.1
    TV Series
    • written by
    • 1981
  • The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969)
    The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
    6.9
    TV Series
    • teleplay
    • story
    • 1972
  • Hugh Griffith and Jo Jo Bennett in Brown Eye, Evil Eye (1968)
    Brown Eye, Evil Eye
    7.9
    • screenplay
    • story
    • 1968
  • Leif Erickson, Linda Cristal, Henry Darrow, Cameron Mitchell, and Mark Slade in The High Chaparral (1967)
    The High Chaparral
    7.6
    TV Series
    • written by
    • 1967
  • Zärtliche Haie (1967)
    Zärtliche Haie
    5.9
    • Writer
    • 1967
  • Lee Majors, Barbara Stanwyck, Linda Evans, Peter Breck, and Richard Long in The Big Valley (1965)
    The Big Valley
    7.6
    TV Series
    • written by
    • 1967
  • James Drury, Doug McClure, and John McIntire in The Virginian (1962)
    The Virginian
    7.6
    TV Series
    • story
    • teleplay
    • writer
    • 1965–1967
  • Convoy (1965)
    Convoy
    7.4
    TV Series
    • writer
    • 1965
  • Ben Casey (1961)
    Ben Casey
    7.1
    TV Series
    • teleplay by
    • written by
    • 1961–1964
  • Alfred Hitchcock in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)
    The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
    8.5
    TV Series
    • story and teleplay
    • 1964
  • Nick Adams in Saints and Sinners (1962)
    Saints and Sinners
    5.6
    TV Series
    • written by
    • 1962
  • Christine Kaufmann and Don Murray in Escape from East Berlin (1962)
    Escape from East Berlin
    6.7
    • screenplay by
    • story by
    • 1962
  • The Best of the Post (1960)
    The Best of the Post
    7.6
    TV Series
    • teleplay
    • 1960–1961
  • One Step Beyond (1959)
    One Step Beyond
    7.8
    TV Series
    • writer
    • written by
    • dramatization ...
    • 1960

Actress

  • The Best of the Post (1960)
    The Best of the Post
    7.6
    TV Series
    • Miss Weyland
    • 1960
  • Hal Baylor, Hans Conried, and Chuck Hicks in Schlitz Playhouse (1951)
    Schlitz Playhouse
    7.6
    TV Series
    • Girl
    • 1953

Personal details

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  • Alternative name
    • Gillian Houghton
  • Born
    • 1921
    • British Columbia, Canada
  • Died
    • September 13, 2022
    • Santa Rosa, California, USA(undisclosed)

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