Shimon Wincelberg (26 September 1924 – 29 September 2004) was a television screenwriter and playwright born in Kiel, Germany. His family was forced to flee Germany by the Nazi pogroms, arriving in the United States in the late 1930's. He became a professional writer in 1953 with the sale of his first story and started his career writing short stories for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, New Yorker and Punch. He subsequently wrote many plays (such as the 1959 Broadway play Kataki) and books, some with his writer wife Anita, as well as numerous 1960s and 1970s television shows, often under the pseudonyms 'Simon Wincelberg', 'Simon Winvelberg', 'S. Bar-David' or 'Shimon Bar-David' ("Shimon, son of David" in Hebrew). Wincelberg was a mentor for many Orthodox Jews in Hollywood, and many of hi