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Early life and career of Gene Roddenberry
American television screenwriter, producer (1921–1991)
Gene Roddenberry | |
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Gene Roddenberry in 1939, during his senior year at high school | |
| Born | Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (1921-08-19)August 19, 1921 El Paso, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | October 24, 1991(1991-10-24) (aged 70) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Los Angeles City College |
| Spouse(s) | Eileen-Anita Rexroat (1942–1969) Majel Barrett (1969–his death, 1991) |
| Children | 3, including Rod Roddenberry |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service / branch | United States Army Air Forces |
| Years of service | 1941–1945 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Unit | 394th Bombardment Squadron |
| Battles / wars | World War II |
| Awards | Air Medal Distinguished Flying Cross |
Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist best remembered for creating the original Star Trek television
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Gene Roddenberry was the genius behind the groundbreaking television series Star Trek. But there was so much more to Roddenberry’s life – he was a military aviator, worked for the police department, and was a scriptwriter.
Gene Roddenberry was born on 19 August 1921 in his family home in the west Texas town of El Paso. His family would move to Los Angeles two years later when his father became a police officer there. He loved reading pulp fiction as a child with titles such as John Carter of Mars and Tarzan having a great influence on him and his future Hollywood writing career.
Though he would study police science at Los Angeles City College, which incidentally was where he met and started dating Eileen-Anita Rexroat his passion was for flying. He joined the Army Air Force in 1941 shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and he flew 89 combat missio
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Majel Barrett-Roddenberry and Rod Roddenberry in 2008.
While at Los Angeles City College, Roddenberry began dating Eileen-Anita Rexroat. They became engaged before Roddenberry left Los Angeles during his military service,and married in June 1942 at the chapel at Kelly Field.They had two children tillsammans, Darleen Anita,and Dawn Allison.During his time in the LAPD, Roddenberry was known to have had affairs with secretarial staff. Before his work on Star Trek, he began relationships with both Nichelle Nichols and Majel Barrett.Nichols only wrote about their relationship in her autobiography Beyond Uhura after Roddenberry’s death.At the time, Roddenberry wanted to remain in an open relationship with both women,but Nichols, recognising Barrett’s devotion to him, ended the romantisk händelse as she did not want to be “the other woman to the other woman”.
He and Barrett had an apartment tillsammans by the opening weeks of Star Trek.He had planned to divorce