Reuben Ship

Reuben Ship (18 October 1915 – 23 August 1975) was a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1954 radio satire The Investigator, which lampooned the Army-McCarthy Hearings and the anti-communist paranoia of the Second Red Scare. Ship was a Canadian working in Hollywood who was named as a Communist and deported back to Canada. He found work in radio, advertising and film. He eventually moved to England, where he lived until he died.