Television Writer. A bit player in movies and TV as a youth, he became a television screenwriter in the 1950s for shows including “Studio One” and “Kraft Television Theatre.” In 1958, he wrote a widely-praised adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” starring Richard Burton for “The DuPont Show of the Month.” The first of the three Emmy Awards he would win came in 1959 for his original screenplay “Little Moon of Alban,” an episode of “Hallmark Hall of Fame” which featured Costigan in an acting role. In 1975 he won another Emmy for his screenplay, “Love Among the Ruins” starring Katharine Hepburn and Sir Laurence Olivier as two aging ex-lovers. He earned his third Emmy the next year for the television film “Eleanor and Franklin,” an adaptation of the biography of the Roosevelts. He also wrote the screenplay for the sequel, “Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years,” broadcast in 1977. He also wrote for Broadway in the 1960s and in later years collaborated on the screenplays of several motion pictures, including “The Hunger” (1983), “King David” (1985) and “Mr. North” (1988). (bio by: CMF)