Spoiler : Born in Springfield, Ohio 2/21/1915; died 2/22/2001 a heart attack in Los Angeles, California. Educated at Wittenberg University, moved to Southern California in the middle 1930s working at the Pasadena Playhouse and for CBS Radio. Writer, script adapter and editor at CBS-Hollywood for radio programs including episodes of I Was There (1935-1945); Romance Of The Ranchos (1941- 1945); Raffles (1942-1943); Escape (1947-1954); Gunsmoke (1952-1961); Fort Laramie (1956). Personally enamored of the Western genre, Dunkel hiked and camped throughout the Sierra, and collected rare books about the West. Writer for television including episodes of Gunsmoke Rawhide Broken Arrow Wagon Train One Step Beyond Bonanza The Big Valley The Virginian The High Chaparral Law of the Plainsman In 1956 and 1961, the Writers Guild of American nominated him for awards for television episodes of Gunsmoke, Rawhide and Brokwn Arrow. In 1960 and 1961, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City gave Dunkel it's Western Heritage Award for writng episodes of Rawhide. In retirement, Dunkel was commodore of the Santa Monica Yacht Club.