Philip Mishkin

Philip Mishkin is an American playwright and TV writer who frequently collaborated with Rob Reiner.

Career Reiner and Mishkin first worked together at UCLA, in an improv group called the Sessions. In 1969 Mishkin wrote two one-act plays that were staged at the Oxford Theatre in Los Angeles, California; Reiner directed one and starred in the other. In 1970, Mishkin and Reiner worked on a one-season TV comedy called The Headmaster, starring Andy Griffith. In 1972 he co-created The Super with Reiner and Gerald Isenberg. Mishkin and Reiner co-wrote the pilot episode, and Mishkin also co-starred as Frankie Girelli. Mishkin was nominated for an Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy Emmy Award in 1972 for co-writing an episode of All In the Family. In 1973 Reiner and Mishkin collaborated on a comedy scenario for a TV special featuring Carroll O'Connor. In 1978 Reiner and Mishkin co-created Free Country, "a whimsical dramedy in which Reiner played an 89-year-old Lithuanian immigrant looking back on his fresh-off-the-boat self, also played by Reiner."

In 1980 the Odyssey Theater Ensemble of Los Angeles staged an adaption of They Shoot Horses Don't They? that was co-written by Mishkin. In 1991 Mishkin and Reiner co-created the one-season CBS show Morton & Hayes.