Douglas McGrath
Age: N/A | From: New York, New York, USA
Person Details
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Aliases: Douglas Geoffrey McGrath , Doug McGrath
Gender: Male
Place of birth: New York, New York, USA
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Movie Involvements: 21
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
Douglas Geoffrey McGrath (February 2, 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 Show (1994), The Daytrippers (1996), Happiness (1998), The Insider (1999), and Michael Clayton (2007). He also made appearances in television including a recurring role as Principal Toby Cook in Lena Dunham's HBO series Girls from 2015 to 2016. He also appeared in the Amazon Prime comedy series Crisis in Six Scenes (2016), and the Netflix western limited series Godless (2017). McGrath received a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical nomination for the Broadway musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in 2014. He also directed the HBO documentaries His Way (2011), and Becoming Mike Nichols (2016). He wrote political commentary, such as "The Flapjack File", a column for The New Republic, as well as articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair. Description above from the Wikipedia article Douglas McGrath, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Most Famous Work
I Don't Know How She Does It
(2011) Director
Emma
(1996) Screenplay
Infamous
(2006) Screenplay
Bullets Over Broadway
(1994) Screenplay
Nicholas Nickleby
(2002) Writer
Born Yesterday
(1993) Screenplay
Company Man
(2000) Writer
His Way
(2011) DirectorActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Gil Brenner | |
| 2016 | Norman | |
| Self | ||
| 2011 | Self | |
| 2009 | Dean Edward Gitleson | |
| 2007 | Jeff Gaffney | |
| 2002 | Self | |
| Barbeque Guest | ||
| 2000 | Frenchy's Lawyer | |
| Alan Quimp | ||
| 1999 | Himself | |
| Private Investigator | ||
| 1998 | Tom | |
| Bill Gaines | ||
| 1997 | Bob Waterman | |
| Chap | ||
| 1994 | Snodgrass | |
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Directing
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| 2016 | Director | |
| 2011 | Director | |
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| 2006 | Director | |
| 2002 | Director | |
| 2000 | Director | |
| 1996 | Director | |
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Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 2006 | Screenplay | |
| 2002 | Writer | |
| 2000 | Writer | |
| 1996 | Screenplay | |
| 1994 | Screenplay | |
| 1993 | Screenplay | |
| Musical | ||
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