| Pat Fielder | |
| Birth Name: | Patricia Marie Penny |
| Birth Date: | April 16, 1929 |
| Birth Place: | Pasadena, California, USA |
| Death Date: | November 8, 2018 (aged 91) |
| Death Place: | California, USA |
| Education: | UCLA |
| Occupation: | Screenwriter, TV writer, producer |
| Spouse: | Lawrence Fielder (div.) |
Pat Fielder (born Patricia Penny) was an American screenwriter known for penning cult B monster movies like The Return of Dracula in the 1950s.[1] For TV, she worked on everything from Baretta to The Rifleman to Starsky & Hutch.[2]
Pat was born in Pasadena, California, to Patrick Penny and Mary Lloyd. She attended John Marshall High and later UCLA, where she studied theatre arts; after graduation, she worked as a teacher before landing a job at Gramercy Pictures.[3] After initially serving as a production assistant, she was eventually given the chance to write scripts, starting with The Vampire and The Monster that Challenged the World.