{{Short description|American screenwriter (1924–1999)}} {{More citations needed|date=August 2018}} {{Use American English|date=March 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Harold Jack Bloom | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|4|26|mf=y}} | birth_place = United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|8|27|1924|4|24|mf=y}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, United States | other_names = Harold Bloom | occupation = Screenwriter<br />Television producer | years_active = 1948–1989 }}

'''Harold Jack Bloom''' (April 26, 1924 &ndash; August 27, 1999) was an American television producer and screenwriter who scored a notable hit with his first major screenplay to the classic Anthony Mann Western ''The Naked Spur'' in 1953, earning an Oscar nomination in the process.

==Career==

Apart from the odd film script, most of Bloom's career was spent writing for television. He worked on such series as ''Bonanza,'' ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' and, in particular, the TV series version of ''Twelve O'Clock High.'' He was also co-creator, along with Robert A. Cinader and Jack Webb, of the medical/paramedic drama, ''Emergency!'' Its pilot installment, "The Wedsworth-Townsend Act," was the only installment to which he made any major contributions.

When Richard Maibaum was unavailable, the producers of the James Bond film ''You Only Live Twice'' hired Bloom to write the screenplay of the film. The producers did not use Bloom's script, but since several of his ideas were eventually written into Roald Dahl's screenplay of the film,<ref>{{cite web|website=Tomsoter.com|title=He Only Lived Twice|publisher=Starlog|author=Soter, Tom|date=August 1991|url=http://www.tomsoter.com/?q=node/829}}</ref> Bloom was credited with "additional story material."

Bloom co-produced ''A Gunfight'' with Kirk Douglas through his own film production company, Thoroughbred Productions.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California on July 25, 1970 · 35|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/386207645/|access-date=2021-06-02|website=Newspapers.com|language=en}}</ref>

One of his last assignments was the well-regarded TV movie ''Remembrance of Love'' in 1982, a showcase role for Kirk Douglas as a Holocaust survivor.

==Personal life==

He was married to actress Carolyn Kearney, with whom he had one child, Charles. Harold Jack Bloom's second marriage, in 1987, was to interior designer Norene Fremont.

Bloom died of cancer on August 27, 1999, at the age of seventy-five.

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0089169|name=Harold Jack Bloom}}

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