Younger brother of 埃弗里特·弗里曼.

A founder of the Screen Writers Guild, which became the Writers Guild of America.

He died from complications from open heart surgery in Los Angeles, CA. He had an operation in March 2005. He was buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles.

He helped establish the Screen Writers Guild, reorganized it into the Writers Guild of America in 1954 and negotiated with studios for the guild's right to determine film writing credits.

He began his professional writing career while attending Brooklyn College. He wrote short stories for the New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post. Eventually he became a studio staff writer at MGM.