Douglas McGrath

Douglas McGrath

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

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Movies

Celebrity

Celebrity

5.995
Hollywood Ending

Hollywood Ending

6.507
Small Time Crooks

Small Time Crooks

6.442
Company Man

Company Man

4.986
Solitary Man

Solitary Man

5.904
Prix Fixe

Prix Fixe

0
Woody Allen: A Documentary

Woody Allen: A Documentary

6.835
Quiz Show

Quiz Show

7.257
Carole King: Natural Woman

Carole King: Natural Woman

7.2
The Insider

The Insider

7.458
Café Society

Café Society

6.457
Sweet and Lowdown

Sweet and Lowdown

6.778
Rifkin’s Festival

Rifkin’s Festival

6.138
Michael Clayton

Michael Clayton

6.8
The Daytrippers

The Daytrippers

6.489
Happiness

Happiness

7.4
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

6
The Concert for New York City

The Concert for New York City

4.8
Sounds from a Town I Love

Sounds from a Town I Love

5.6