SERLING: THE RISE AND TWILIGHT OF TELEVISION’S LAST ANGRY MAN. Gordon F. Sander. Dutton. 284 pages. $22. Guzzling coffee and smoking cigarette after cigarette, Rod Serling was a man who rarel… ...

Her new bio describes her father, Rod Serling, as a hard-working, hilarious family man. ... His hair is jet-black, his eyes piercing. A cigarette is often wedged between his fingers, ...

Pan to Mr. Serling addressing the camera with a cigarette in hand. George R.R. Martin, the author of "Game of Thrones," worked as a story editor on a 1986 revival of (you guessed it) "The Twilight ...

Serling died at 50, from complications stemming from chain-smoking cigarettes his entire adult life. “Rod Serling was one of the true visionaries in television history,” Meieran said.

A lifelong smoker, who could go through several packs of cigarettes a day, Serling passed away before his time at the age of 50 on June 28, 1975 following complications from open heart surgery.

For five seasons in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a cigarette-brandishing Rod Serling entered the homes of Americans with his droll brand of off-kilter storytelling on The Twilight Zone.In the ...

Serling, as it turns out, never wanted to be the narrator for "The Twilight Zone." As previously reported by /Film, Orson Welles was to be hired to provide the show's narration.Welles, of course ...

Correspondent David Pogue asked Jodi Serling, Rod's daughter, about the man most people knew as the guy in the suit with the cigarette introducing each episode. "My dad was the funniest person in ...

The True Story of 'The Twilight Zone': How Show Was Based on Rod Serling's Life Sherri Papini Says Her Ex-Boyfriend 'Mutilated' Her Body Notorious 2013 'Poop Cruise' Subject of New Documentary ...

Years before he journeyed to “The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling made a brief detour to the strike zone, writing a comedy about baseball. ... Smoldering cigarette in hand, ...