Title: Kathleen Hite
Content:  needed a radio scriptwriter&mdash;ANY radio scriptwriter. And there I was." She contributed writing for several television series, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Mystery Playhouse, Thriller, Gunsmoke, and The Waltons. Hite was promoted to script editor of The Whistler and The Adventures of Philip Marlowe in 1950. She quit CBS in late 1950/early 1951, because freelance writers were paid 350% more per script. Hite's contributions to TV series about the American West were particularly substantive, as she wrote over 100 scripts in total for shows like Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, The Monroes, and Empire. She was one of the only women writers for television Westerns and was considered "one of the top Cowboy-and-Indian scribes of all time".
Title: Colin Higgins
Content:  Colin Higgins (28 July 1941 – 5 August 1988) was an Australian-American screenwriter, actor, director, and producer. He was best known for writing the screenplay for the 1971 film Harold and Maude, and for directing the films Foul Play (1978) and 9 to 5 (1980).
Title: Norman Houston (screenwriter)
Content:  Norman Houston (1887–1958) was an American screenwriter best known for his work on Westerns. He wrote 19 films for Tim Holt. According to Tom Stempel, "He, more than any of the other writers of the Holts, had the perfect light touch in writing the Tim-Chito relationship. He also tended to nail the script so that not a lot of changes were made after it was accepted. There are Final Drafts of scripts of his that have no blue pages, which was the color used for revised pages. Houston’s plotting could get a little sloppy." Houston also co-wrote the Broadway play Red Light Annie in 1923.
Title: Gladys Hill
Content:  Gladys Hill (d. 1981) was a screenwriter and film executive. She is best known as co-writer of the screenplay for The Man Who Would Be King for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. She also co-wrote screenplays for The Kremlin Letter and Reflections in a Golden Eye. Hill's film career began in 1946 as dialogue director on The Stranger, directed by Orson Welles. She went on to be dialogue director on other films such as John Huston's We Were Strangers in 1949, and The Prowler in 1951 which was directed by Joseph Losey. In 1962, Hill became head assistant to Director John Huston, a position which continued through 11 more films with Huston. She acted in three movies in the 1960s and 70s. Hill died in 1981.
Title: John Hunter (screenwriter)
Content:  paper. Hunter began his career while still a Trinity student, as a screenwriter for Smashing Through (1929) and an actor in Varsity (1930, as J. Evans Hunter). After graduating with Third Class Honors he began a successful career as a screenwriter, most notably with Hammer Film Productions. He is best known for 1955's BAFTA nominated Carrington V.C. (film), starring David Niven and Noelle Middleton, and the controversial 1960 Never Take Sweets from a Stranger. Although he married after leaving university, Hunter was Guy Burgess's lover while they were both students at Cambridge. Subsequently divorced, his longtime partner, Michael Ronan, had served time in a British jail for his sexuality. Hunter died in London in 1984.
Title: Harriet Hinsdale
Content:  Harriet Hinsdale was an American screenwriter, playwright, and author. She was on the writing staff at Warner Brothers for many years as a story editor, and was the author of several novels. She was noted for her theatrical collaborations with Orson Welles, and she often co-wrote projects with Ramon Romero.
Title: Barry Hines
Content: The Blinder (1966) ; A Kestrel for a Knave (1968) (later filmed as Kes, Hines co-writing the script) ; First Signs (1972) ; The Gamekeeper (1975) (later made into an eponymous film, Hines co-writing the script) ; Looks and Smiles (1981) (later made into an eponymous film, Hines writing the script) ; Unfinished Business (1983) ; The Heart of It (1994) ; Elvis over England (2000) 
Title: Colin Higgins
Content:  The success of Silver Streak enabled Higgins to revive his earlier script, Foul Play (1978), and direct the film himself. It was enormously popular at the box office and launched his directing career. He was writing a comedy-thriller, The Man Who Lost Tuesday when he received an offer to re-write and direct 9 to 5 (1980). It was a big hit, as was the musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), which Higgins directed. He was meant to follow it with The Man Who Lost Tuesday but Paramount felt the budget was too high and passed. In 1985, he was working on a project with playwright Jonathan Reynolds. In 1986, he was reportedly writing a script, Washington Girls, as a vehicle to reunite Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton. His last credit was a TV movie, Out on a Limb (1987), which he co-wrote and co-produced.
Title: Silver Streak (film)
Content:  The film was based on an original screenplay by Colin Higgins, who at the time was best known for writing Harold and Maude. He wrote Silver Streak "because I had always wanted to get on a train and meet some blonde. It never happened, so I wrote a script." Higgins wrote Silver Streak for the producers of The Devil's Daughter, a TV film he had written. Both they and Higgins wanted to get into television. The script was sent out to auction. It was set on an Amtrak train and Paramount was interested, but wanted Amtrak to give its approval. Alan Ladd Jr and Frank Yablans at 20th Century Fox didn't want to wait and bought the script for a then-record $400,000. Ladd said "It was like the old Laurel and 
Title: Richard Rothstein (screenwriter)
Content:  Richard David Rothstein was an American screenwriter and director. He is best known for the original screenplay Universal Soldier, which was followed by three sequels in 1999, 2009, 2012. He is the creator of the HBO TV series The Hitchhiker as well as the writer/director of many of the episodes. He has written many screenplays in the science fiction/horror genre and has had several graphic novels published. Rothstein died April 16, 2018 at his home in Los Angeles.

Question: Who was the screenwriter for Hits?
Answer: David Cross.