Born in Culver City, CA. Started out writing for television in the mid-1950s ("Climax", "Science Fiction Theater," "Highway Patrol," "Wagon Train" and "Bonanza"), then moved into feature films, mostly in the science fiction genre: the William Alland U-I creature feature TARANTULA (1955, story), THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957, story), THE 27TH DAY (1957, uncredited), RYMDINVASION I LAPPLAND / HORROR IN THE MIDNIGHT SUN and THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE (both1959, both uncredited), and the story for the 1968 Bob Hope vehicle, THE PRIVATE NAVY OF SGT. O'FARRELL. In 1969 he and Denis Sanders produced the 20-minute documentary CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1968, which Fresco also wrote and directed, for the U.S. Information Agency. They had also produced a shorter documentary about 50 years of Czech history with archive images called CHECOSLOVAQUIA (1969). Fresco also produced the adaptation of "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" for PBS in 1972.  Documentary (Short Subjects) 1969: CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1968 - Producer (w. Denis Sanders) 1 nomination, 1 Award