57 American screenwriter stubs

Keith Allan is an American actor and screenwriter. Projects he has worked on include Social Nightmare and Z Nation.

Isadore Bernstein was an American screenwriter. He wrote screenplays for 65 films between 1914 and 1938. He was born in New York, New York and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack. Bernstein was the West Coast studio manager for Carl Laemmle. Although he acted as Laemmle's representative concerning many business issues, he was not a principal as was Pat Powers in the formation of Universal Film Manufacturing Company.

Claude Binyon was a screenwriter and director. His genres were comedy, musicals, and romances.

Andy Bobrow is an American television writer and producer known for his work on Community. He was previously a writer for Malcolm in the Middle and created a mockumentary called The Old Negro Space Program. He currently voices Owly on the Love Me Cat Show.

John Hunter Booth was an American playwright. He wrote seven films between 1922 and 1933.

Charles J. Brabin was an American film director and screenwriter.

Patricia Biow Broderick was an American playwright and painter. She was the wife of actor James Broderick and the mother of actor Matthew Broderick.

Tom Caltabiano is a writer and stand-up comedian. He directed and co-starred in the documentary 95 Miles to Go with longtime friend Ray Romano. He was a writer/producer on Everybody Loves Raymond and took over 30,000 behind-the-scenes photos of the show. Caltabiano was a guest host for CBS's The Late, Late Show in 2004 when Craig Kilborn abruptly exited. He was the inspiration for Terry Elliott, the character Scott Bakula played on TNT's Men of a Certain Age.

Duane Capizzi is an American writer and television producer. He is known for his extensive work in animated series for television, including the Emmy Award-winning Transformers: Prime for which he was Co-Executive Producer and Head Writer, and co-developed its follow-up Transformers: Robots in Disguise. For Warner Bros Animation, he was writer/producer of the animated series The Batman as well as its spin-off feature, The Batman vs. Dracula. He wrote the first DC Universe animated feature, Superman: Doomsday. Other animated series producing/writing credits include Jackie Chan Adventures, Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, Men in Black: The Series, and series development on the CG animated Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles for Sony Pictures Television. He was Writer and Story Editor for both animated spin-offs of Jim Carrey films, Ace Ventura Pet Detective and The Mask. He also wrote and story-edited for several 'Disney Afternoon' TV series including Darkwing Duck, Aladdin, TaleSpin, and Bonkers. He began his career in animation writing scripts for Robotech II: The Sentinels for Harmony Gold.The series was never produced, but led to writing and story-editing on ALF: The Animated Series.

Lillian Case Russell, often credited as L. Case Russell, was an American screenwriter during Hollywood's silent era. She was married to actor John Lowell Russell.

Robert Bryan Cogman is an American television writer and producer. He wrote eleven episodes of the HBO series Game of Thrones.

Michael Conforti is an American television writer on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. He played Jeremy Rhodes on Edge of Night, and Wally Bacon on Guiding Light. Conforti later became a writer for the soap opera Guiding Light. He became a co-head writer for All My Children and Guiding Light. Conforti is currently a breakdown writer for the television show The Young and the Restless.

Andrew Dabb is an American writer, working in the field of television, movies, and graphic novels.

Walter DeLeon was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 69 films that were released between 1921 and 1953, and acted in one film. He was born in Oakland, California, and died in Los Angeles, California.

Cliff Dorfman is an American screenwriter, film director and actor best known for his work on HBO's Entourage and the 2011 feature film Warrior. Dorfman's entertainment industry career began in the 1990s with recurring roles on 7th Heaven and Beverly Hills 90210. He also worked as a Hollywood club promoter, appearing in the documentary film Hollywood: Wild in the Streets and in Bret Easton Ellis' 1999 novel Glamorama, in which Dorfman is named as a friend of musician Corey Feldman.

Warren Douglas was an American actor and screenwriter.

Walter Edwards, was an American director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 46 films during his career.

Ann Elder is an American actress, producer and screenwriter.

Zack Estrin is an American television producer and screenwriter.

Steve Faber is a screenwriter best known for his work in the movie Wedding Crashers.

Joseph White Farnham was an American playwright, film writer, and film editor of the silent movie era in the early 1930s. He was also a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Robert Leo Farrelly Jr. is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is one of the Farrelly brothers, alongside his brother Peter, and together are known directing and producing quirky, slightly offensive comedy films such as Dumb and Dumber, Shallow Hal, Me, Myself and Irene, There's Something About Mary, and the 2007 remake of The Heartbreak Kid.

Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby are screenwriters best known for their work on Children of Men and Iron Man. Their other work includes First Snow, which was also directed by Fergus, and Cowboys & Aliens.

Josh Friedman is an American screenwriter and television producer best known for his work on the science-fiction action series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the film adaptation of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005), and the neo-noir The Black Dahlia (2006). He is co-writing the upcoming Avatar 2 and Terminator: Dark Fate, both produced by James Cameron.

Lila Garrett was an American television screenwriter and radio host. She was a former resident of the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital. She wrote for the sitcoms The Second Hundred Years , My Favorite Martian,All in the Family, and Bewitched. She co-wrote with Bernie Kahn and Stu Billett the 1971 Disney TV movie The Barefoot Executive.

Thomas J. Geraghty, was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 70 films between 1917 and 1939. During the 1930s he went to the United Kingdom, where he wrote a number of screenplays. He was born in Rushville, Indiana, and died in Hollywood, California.

Geretta Geretta is an American actress, director, screenwriter and producer, who has worked in Ireland, South Africa, Italy, Switzerland and the United States. Geretta has completed the MFA program in screenwriting at the American Film Institute.

Peter Gethers is an American publisher, screenwriter and author of television shows, films, newspaper and magazine articles, and novelist; the author of several books, including the bestseller The Cat Who Went to Paris, published in the UK under the title A Cat Called Norton, the first of the Norton the cat trilogy, about his Scottish Fold, Norton. He lives in New York City and Sag Harbor, New York.

Henry Gilroy is an American film and television screenwriter and producer. He is best known for co-writing the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Ray Griggs is a director, writer and producer in Hollywood, California, and owner of RG Entertainment, Ltd. His work has won several awards.

Frances Guihan was an American screenwriter. She worked on more than 40 films during her career, including a number of B westerns.

Forrest Halsey, born William Forrest Halsey, was an American author and screenwriter.

Theodosia Harris was an American screenwriter active at the dawn of Hollywood's silent era. She worked as the chief scenario writer at Mutual for director David Horsley in the 1910s, penning dozens of short scenarios she was credited for. She appears to have retired from screenwriting after marrying San Francisco businessman James Knowles in 1915. She was involved in a 1917 Supreme Court lawsuit over her scenario The House of a Thousand Scandals, and she was never credited on another film after that. She died in San Antonio, Texas, in 1938.

Lawrence Hazard was an American playwright and screenwriter active between 1933 and 1958. His career was cut short when he died at age 61 in 1959. His films include Man's Castle (1933) directed by Frank Borzage and starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young; Mannequin (1937) directed by Borzage and starring Joan Crawford and Spencer Tracy; Strange Cargo (1940) directed by Borzage and starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford; The Spoilers (1942) starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne; Jackass Mail (1942) starring Wallace Beery; Dakota (1945) starring John Wayne and Walter Brennan, and numerous other films as well as scripts for television anthologies in the 1950s.

Frederick J. Jackson was an American author, playwright and screenwriter. He wrote for over 50 films between 1912 and 1946. Over a forty-year span, a dozen of his plays were produced on Broadway. Several of his plays were turned into films, including The Bishop Misbehaves. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died in Hollywood, California.

Robert Nelson Jacobs is an American screenwriter. In 2000, he received an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay for Chocolat. In 2014, Jacobs was elected president of the Writers Guild Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting and preserving the craft of writing for the screen.

Kevin Noel Clark was an American screenwriter, actor, and film producer. He adopted the last name of his adoptive father, Maurice Jarre.

James 'Jim' Jennewein is an American screenwriter, author, teacher and writer, best known for writing several major Hollywood comedies of the 1990s, including the feature film adaptation of The Flintstones. He collaborates with Tom S. Parker.

George Washington Jeske was an American screenwriter, director, and actor.

Monte M. Katterjohn was an American screenwriter. He wrote the screenplays for 68 films between 1912 and 1931. He was born in Boonville, Indiana, and died in Evansville, Indiana.

Stephen Kendrick is a Christian American film writer and producer, co-writer of the book The Love Dare with brother Alex Kendrick, and former senior associate pastor at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia. Stephen, Shannon and Alex Kendrick comprise Kendrick Brothers Productions.

Bradley King was the pen name of Josephine McLaughlin. She was a successful screenwriter who wrote 56 scripts for films between 1920 and 1947. All but one of her 40 silent films are lost, but most of her 20 or so sound films still exist.

Harry Kurnitz was an American playwright, novelist, and prolific screenwriter who wrote swashbucklers for Errol Flynn and comedies for Danny Kaye. He also wrote some mystery fiction under the name Marco Page.

Douglas Langway is an American screenwriter and film director, best known for his film trilogy BearCity, BearCity 2: The Proposal, and Bear City 3. His first feature film, Raising Heroes, was released in 1996.

Jack LoGiudice is an American television writer and producer, best known for his work on the FX series Sons of Anarchy and most recently worked as a co-executive producer and writer on AMC's The Walking Dead.

Edward T. Lowe Jr., also known as E.T. Lowe Jr., E.C. Lowe, Edmund T. Lowe, Edward T. Lowe, or Edward Lowe was an American film writer, producer and editor. He wrote 120 films between years 1913–1947, produced 18 films and directed one: The Losing Game (1915).

Charles Maigne was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era. He wrote for 32 films between 1916 and 1928. He also directed 18 films between 1918 and 1923. He was born in Richmond, Virginia and died in San Francisco, California.

George Donald Mancini is an American screenwriter and film director, most notable for the Child's Play franchise.

Sarah Y. Mason was an American screenwriter and script supervisor.

Travis Mathews is an American director and screenwriter. Primarily working within the documentary genre, his credits include the films I Want Your Love, Interior. Leather Bar. and Discreet, and the web series In Their Room.

Joan McCall is an American screenwriter, producer, actress and religious minister.

Cheryl McKay is an American author and screenwriter, from Los Angeles, California.

Oscar Millard was an English writer who published two books set in Belgium before finding success in Hollywood as a screenwriter.

Bertram Millhauser was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 61 films produced between 1911 and 1960. He was born in New York City, New York and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.

Eugene Mullin was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era. He wrote for 66 films between 1909 and 1925. He also directed seven films between 1910 and 1921. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Long Island, New York.

Brian Nelson is an American screenwriter.

Adam de la Peña is an American actor, comedy writer, producer, and director.