Douglas McGrath

Known for ActingBorn 1958-02-12Died 2022-11-03New York, New York, USA

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 WikipediaRead more

Movies & web series

Godless

The Insider

Happiness

Carole King: Natural Woman

Quiz Show

Becoming Mike Nichols

Bullets Over Broadway

Woody Allen: A Documentary

Nicholas Nickleby

Michael Clayton

Sweet and Lowdown

Saturday Night Live

Café Society

The Daytrippers

Emma

Infamous

Hollywood Ending

His Way

Small Time Crooks

Rifkin’s Festival

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

Solitary Man

Celebrity

Sounds from a Town I Love

I Don't Know How She Does It

Born Yesterday

The Concert for New York City

Company Man

Prix Fixe

Beautiful