Biography
Shimon Wincelberg was a television scriptwriter and playwright. Born in Kiel, Germany, in 1924, he emigrated to the United States in 1938 and later served in combat intelligence with the US Army during the Second World War. He began his writing career in the early 1950s with short stories for magazines including the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar.
Wincelberg wrote or co-wrote scripts for numerous television series from the 1950s onwards, often under pseudonyms such as S. Bar-David. His credits include two episodes of Star Trek (1966), episodes of Lost in Space (1965), The Time Tunnel (1966), Gunsmoke (1955), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964), The Wild Wild West (1965), Planet of the Apes (1974), Dynasty (1981) and Law & Order (1990). He also wrote the 1959 Broadway play Kataki and another play, Windows of Heaven (1962). Wincelberg died in Los Angeles in 2004.
