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Douglas McGrath

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Book Writer 1958–2022

Douglas Geoffrey McGrath (February 12, 1958 – November 3, 2022) was an American screenwriter, film director, and actor. He received various accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Tony Award, and Primetime Emmy Award. McGrath started his career as a writer for Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1981. He co-wrote with Woody Allen the film Bullets Over Broadway (1994), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as well as BAFTA and Writers Guild of America Award nominations. He then directed such films as Emma (1996), Company Man (2000), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), and Infamous (2006). He also appeared in such films as Quiz Sho…

Also credited on2 works

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Bullets Over Broadway

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature1 passages

  • (McGinn/Cazale Theater) Tuesday, Sept.24-Nov.10, 1996 (35 perfor¬ mances and 14 previews) The Westside Theatre presents: POLITICAL ANIMAL; Written/Performed by Douglas McGrath; Direc¬ tor, Peter Askin; Set, Rob Odorisio; Costumes, Candice Donnelly; Light¬ ing, Phil Monat; Sound, Bruce Ellman; Video, Dennis Diamond; Stage Manager, Renee Lu…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1996-97 Season, v. 53 (Willis).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — book writer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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