RIP Howard Berk

Howard Berk, a novelist, producer and screenwriter, died in Los Angeles on March 27th of natural causes. He was 91. Berk’s credits included numerous episodes of television series including “Columbo,” “Mission: Impossible,” The Rockford Files” and “McMillan & Wife,” and several feature films, including the Arthur Penn-directed “Target” (1985), starring Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon. He was co-writer of the 1967 Euro-western “Bang Bang Kid”