- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- Ben
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Benedict Freedman was born on December 19, 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Sabu and the Magic Ring (1957), Everything's Ducky (1961) and The Mickey Rooney Show (1954). He was married to Nancy Freedman. He died on February 24, 2012 in Corte Madera, California, USA.
- SpouseNancy Freedman(June 29, 1941 - August 10, 2010) (her death, 3 children)
- Son of Rumanian-born David Freedman who was renowned as "Broadway's leading jokesmith" and the "czar of radio," a Broadway librettist and writer/producer of several radio shows, including the Eddie Cantor program; also grandson of Israel ("The Yankee") Freedman, drama critic and city editor of Yiddish newspapers in New York. Benedict's mother, Beatrice Goodman Freedman, was a Presbyterian missionary.
- Novelist, radio scriptwriter, dramatist, mathematician, and aerospace engineer, Ben Freedman planned one career at Columbia University as a premedical student, but he was already noted as being gifted in math (specializing in games and recreational mathematics) and as a contributor of material to radio comedy programs (from the age of 17!), including those of Al Jolson and Robert Benchley. He went next to Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute at Glendale, California, earning a degree in aeronautical engineering.
- During the 1940s, Freedman taught calculus and airplane structure at Curtiss-Wright, and was a stress analyst in the aircraft plant of 'Howard Hughes'.
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