Douglas McGrath
Born: 1958-02-12 in New York, New York, USA
Died: 2022-11-03
Known For: Acting
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
Filmography
2020
- Rifkin’s Festival as Gil Brenner
2016
- Café Society as Norman
- Carole King: Natural Woman as Self
- Becoming Mike Nichols ... (Director)
2011
- His Way ... (Director)
- Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
- I Don't Know How She Does It ... (Director)
2009
- Solitary Man as Dean Edward Gitleson
2007
- Michael Clayton as Jeff Gaffney
2006
- Infamous ... (Director)
2002
- Nicholas Nickleby ... (Director)
- Hollywood Ending as Barbeque Guest
- Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages as Self
2000
- Company Man as Alan Quimp
- Small Time Crooks as Frenchy's Lawyer
1999
- The Insider as Private Investigator
- Sweet and Lowdown as Himself
1997
- The Daytrippers as Chap
- Prix Fixe as Bob Waterman
1996
- Emma ... (Director)
1994
- Quiz Show as Snodgrass
- Bullets Over Broadway ... (Screenplay)
1993
- Born Yesterday ... (Screenplay)