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Jack B. Sowards is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 18 march 1929 at Texarkana (USA)

Jack B. Sowards

Jack B. Sowards
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Nationality USA
Birth 18 march 1929 at Texarkana (USA)
Death 8 july 2007 (at 78 years) at California (USA)

Jack B. Sowards (March 18, 1929–July 8, 2007) was an American screenwriter who wrote the story and screenplay for the 1982 movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and the 1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Where Silence Has Lease". Sowards created the term Kobayashi Maru (a simulation test in The Wrath of Khan), naming it for his friend Jim Kobayashi.

A native of Texarkana, Arkansas, Sowards had numerous writing credits which extended from episodes of The Bold Ones: The Lawyers in 1969 to an installment of B. L. Stryker in 1990. He was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland", the September 26, 1971 episode of The Bold Ones: The Lawyers. He also received a Saturn Award nomination for his work on The Wrath of Khan and shared a Hugo Award nomination for it as well.

Sowards died in the Valley Village suburb of Los Angeles at the age of 78, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Best films

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
(1982)
(Story)

Usually with

Burt Topper
Burt Topper
(2 films)
Charles Aidman
Charles Aidman
(2 films)
Jack Weston
Jack Weston
(2 films)
Jim Davis
Jim Davis
(2 films)
Harve Bennett
Harve Bennett
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jack B. Sowards (5 films)

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Actor

Tank Commandos
Tank Commandos (1959)

Directed by Burt Topper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Robert V. Barron, Jack B. Sowards
Roles Pvt. Todd
Rating45% 2.2959552.2959552.2959552.2959552.295955
During the Italian campaign the American army sends out a demolition team to discover how the Germans are reinforcing their positions. The team is led to its destination by an Italian boy.
Hell Squad
Hell Squad (1958)
, 1h4
Directed by Burt Topper
Origin USA
Genres War
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Jack B. Sowards, Robert B. Williams
Roles German Lieutenant in American Uniform
Rating49% 2.4890152.4890152.4890152.4890152.489015
During World War II, a squad of five American soldiers become lost in Tunisia and are killed one by one in fights with German units. Finally only one man, Private Russo, is left, in the midst of a mine field, together with a German officer, locked in a stalemate. Russo has water, while the German claims to have a map revealing the mine positions. So Russo agrees to swap water for the map, but the German officer tries to double-cross him.

Scriptwriter

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
, 1h53
Directed by Nicholas Meyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Dans l'espace, Sur une planète fictive, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors William Shatner, Ricardo Montalbán, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei
Roles Story
Rating76% 3.848073.848073.848073.848073.84807
In the year 2285, Admiral James T. Kirk oversees a simulator session of Captain Spock's trainees. In the simulation, Lieutenant Saavik commands the starship USS Enterprise on a rescue mission to save the crew of a damaged ship. When the Enterprise enters the Klingon Neutral Zone to reach the ship it is attacked by Klingon cruisers and critically damaged. The simulation is named the "Kobayashi Maru"—a no-win scenario designed to test the character of Starfleet officers. Later, Dr. McCoy joins Kirk on his birthday; seeing Kirk in low spirits, the doctor advises Kirk to get a new command and not grow old behind a desk.