Bert Granet, 92, a television writer and producer who helped bring the Twilight Zone and The Untouchables series to the small screen, died Nov. 15 in Santa Monica, Calif., of injuries from a fall.
Born in New York, Mr. Granet earned a bachelor's degree from Yale and then moved to Los Angeles, where he began to work in the entertainment industry in 1934. Over the next four decades, he produced nearly a dozen motion pictures and television shows or series, and wrote scripts for 30 others.
He produced the first series of The Untouchables, which ran through 1963. The concept was made into a motion picture in 1987 starring Kevin Costner and re-created for a television series in 1993-1994.
In 1959, Mr. Granet was responsible for bringing Rod Serling's Twilight Zone to television. Mr. Granet, looking for a usable script, talked with Serling, who suggested "The Time Element," about a bartender returning to Pearl Harbor the day before the Japanese attack.
Mr. Granet bought the script for $10,000, and the show garnered more audience reaction than previous episodes. CBS finally decided to take a chance on Mr. Serling's series, which became wildly popular among sci-fi fans.
Earl Warrick, 91, one of the originators of commercial silicone and a former chief researcher for Dow Corning, died Nov. 15 in Loma Linda, Calif.
Mr. Warrick, whose career at Dow spanned 33 years, is best known for inventing silicone rubber -- also known as bouncing putty or an early form of Silly Putty. He obtained patents for the material.
Mr. Warrick began his career at Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, where he and Rob Roy McGregor began independent studies in organosilicon chemistry in 1936.
He joined the newly formed Dow in 1943.
He and Mr. McGregor were trying to create a compound in the 1940s to replace rubber, which was scarce during the war. They failed, but kept some of the result around to amuse their friends. Years later, a marketer decided it would make a good toy.
Prince Takamado, 47, a cousin of Japanese Emperor Akihito and seventh in line for the Chrysanthemum Throne, died of heart failure yesterday after collapsing on a squash court.
The prince, whose birth name was Norihito, was the third son of Prince Mikasa, former Emperor Hirohito's youngest brother.