The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild (44 page)

Cody, Diablo:
Juno
(2007, AA, WGAA),
The United States of Tara
(2009–2011),
Young Adult
(2011, WGAAn)

Coen, Joel, and Ethan Coen:
Raising Arizona
(1987),
Barton Fink
(1991),
Fargo
(1996, AA, WGAA),
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
(2000, AAn),
The Man Who Wasn’t There
(2001, WGAAn),
No Country for Old Men
(2007, AA, WGAA),
Burn After Reading
(2008, WGAAn),
A Serious Man
(2009, AAn, WGAAn),
True Grit
(2010, AAn, WGAAn)

Coffee, Lenore J.:
The Better Wife
(1919),
Street of Chance
(1930, with Howard Estabrook, AAn),
Four Daughters
(1938, with Julius J. Epstein, AAn),
Sudden Fear
(1952, with Robert Smith)

Cole, Lester:
Charlie Chan’s Greatest Case
(1933, with Marion Orth), SWG president (1944–1945),
Objective Burma!
(1945, with Alvah Bessie and Ranald MacDougall),
Born Free
(1966, pseudonym Gerald L. C. Copley, credit restored 1997), SWG founding member, blacklisted

Collins, Richard J.:
Song of Russia
(1944, with Paul Jarrico),
Bonanza
(1959–1973),
Matlock
(1986–1995), blacklisted

Condon, Bill:
Gods and Monsters
(1998, AA, WGAAn),
Chicago
(2002, AAn, WGAAn),
Kinsey
(2004, WGAAn),
Dreamgirls
(2006)

Coppola, Francis Ford:
Patton
(1970, with Edmund H. North, AA, WGAA),
The Godfather
(1972, with Mario Puzo, AA, WGAA),
The Conversation
(1974, AAn, WGAAn),
The Godfather, Part II
(1974, AA, WGAA),
Apocalypse Now
(1979, with John Milius, AAn, WGAAn),
The Rainmaker
(1997)

Corday, Barbara:
Wonder Woman
(1975–1979),
Cagney & Lacey
(1981–1988, creator with Barbara Avedon), vice president for Comedy Series Development at ABC (1979–1982), president of Columbia Pictures Television (1984–1987), executive vice president of Primetime Programming at CBS (1988–1990)

Corddry, Rob:
Children’s Hospital
(2008–present, creator),
Newsreaders
(2013–present, creator with Jonathan Stern and David Wain)

Corey, George:
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
(1944, with Waldo Salt and Louis Solomon), blacklisted

Cosby, Bill:
The Bill Cosby Show
(1969–1971, creator with Ed. Weinberger and Michael Zagor),
The Cosby Show
(1984–1992, creator with Ed. Weinberger and Michael Leeson, Peabody Award)

Crane, David:
Dream On
(1990–1996, EAn),
Friends
(1994–2004),
Episodes
(2011–present, creator with Jeffrey Klarik, EAn, WGAAn)

Crawford, Oliver:
Rawhide
(1959–1965),
Ben Casey
(1961–1966),
The Fugitive
(1963–1967),
Star Trek
(1966–1969),
The Bionic Woman
(1976–1978), Cox Award (1983, 1997), blacklisted

Cuse, Carlton:
Nash Bridges
(1996–2001, creator),
Lost
(2004–2010, EAn, WGAA),
Bates Motel
(2013–present)

Davies, Valentine:
Miracle on 34th Street
(1947, with George Seaton, AA),
It Happens Every Spring
(1949, with Shirley W. Smith, AAn, WGAAn), SWG president (1949–1950),
The Glenn Miller Story
(1954, with Oscar Brodney, AAn, WGAAn), AMPAS president (1960–1961)

Davis, Elias:
The Carol Burnett Show
(1967–1978, EAn),
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
(1970–1977),
M*A*S*H
(1972–1983, WGAAn, Humanitas Prize),
Frasier
(1993–2004, WGAAn)

Davis, Madelyn Pugh:
I Love Lucy
(1951–1957, EAn),
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
(1957–1960),
The Lucy Show
(1962–1968),
The Mothers-in-Law
(1967–1969, creator with Bob Carroll Jr.),
Here’s Lucy
(1968–1974, with Bob Carroll Jr., EAn), Laurel Award (1992, with Jess Oppenheimer and Bob Carroll Jr.)

Day, Felicia:
The Guild
(2007–present),
Table Top
(2012–present, creator with Wil Wheaton)

Diamond, I.A.L.:
Some Like It Hot
(1959, with Billy Wilder, AAn, WGAA),
The Apartment
(1960, with Billy Wilder, AA, WGAA),
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
(1970, with Billy Wilder, WGAAn), Laurel Award (1980)

Didion, Joan:
Play It As It Lays
(1972, with John Gregory Dunne),
True Confessions
(1981, with John Gregory Dunne),
Up Close and Personal
(1996, with John Gregory Dunne), Burkey Award (2007)

Di Pego, Gerald:
Born Innocent
(1974),
Phenomenon
(1996),
Instinct
(1999)

Dmytryk, Edward:
Bluebeard
(1972), blacklisted

Dortort, David:
Fireside Theater
(1953–1954),
A Cry in the Night
(1956),
The Restless Gun
(1957–1959),
Bonanza
(1959–1973, creator with Fred Hamilton)

Dubbin, Rob:
The Colbert Report
(2005–present, EA, WGAA)

Dunham, Lena:
Tiny Furniture
(2010),
Girls
(2012–present, EAn, WGAA, WGAAn)

Dunne, Philip:
How Green Was My Valley
(1941, AAn),
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
(1947),
Pinky
(1949, with Dudley Nichols), Laurel Award (1962), Davies Award (1974)

Eckstein, George:
The Untouchables
(1959–1963),
The Fugitive
(1963–1967, WGAAn),
The Bad Seed
(1985, WGAAn)

Ephron, Nora:
Silkwood
(1983, with Alice Arlen, AAn, WGAAn),
When Harry Met Sally
. . . (1989, AAn, WGAAn),
Sleepless in Seattle
(1993, with David S. Ward and Jeff Arch, AAn, WGAAn), Hunter Award (2003),
Julie & Julia
(2009, WGAAn)

Epstein, Julius J.:
Four Daughters
(1938, with Lenore J. Coffee, AAn),
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942, with Philip G. Epstein),
Casablanca
(1942, with Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch, AA),
Arsenic and Old Lace
(1944, with Philip G. Epstein), Laurel Award (1956),
Reuben, Reuben
(1983, AAn, WGAA)

Estabrook, Howard:
Street of Chance
(1930, with Lenore J. Coffee, AAn),
Cimarron
(1931, AA),
David Copperfield
(1935),
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
(1944)

Eszterhas, Joe:
Flashdance
(1983, with Thomas Hedley Jr.),
Basic Instinct
(1992),
Showgirls
(1995)

Fey, Tina:
Saturday Night Live
(1975–present, head writer 1999–2006, EA, WGAA),
Mean Girls
(2004, WGAAn),
30 Rock
(2006–2013, creator, EA, WGAA)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott:
Three Comrades
(1938, with Edward E. Paramore Jr.)

Fontana, Tom:
St. Elsewhere
(1982–1988, EA, WGAA, Humanitas Prize),
Homicide: Life on the Street
(1993–1999, EA, WGAA),
Oz
(1997–2003, creator, WGAAn), Jablow Award (2009),
Copper
(2013–2013, creator with Will Rokos)

Foreman, Carl:
The Men
(1950, AA, WGAAn, Meltzer Award),
High Noon
(1952, AAn, WGAA),
The Bridge on the River Kwai
(1957, with Michael Wilson, AA, credit and Academy Award restored 1984),
The Guns of Navarone
(1961, AAn), Laurel Award (1969), Davies Award (1977), blacklisted

Foster, Lewis R.:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(1939, with Sidney Buchman, AA),
Man-handled
(1949, with Whitman Chambers),
Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color
(1954–1992)

Foster, William:
The Railroad Porter
(1912), founder in 1910 of the Foster Photoplay Company

Freedman, Benedict:
The Red Skelton Hour
(1951–1971),
The Andy Griffith Show
(1960–1968),
My Favorite Martian
(1963–1966)

Freedman, Hy:
You Bet Your Life
(1950–1961)

Freeman, Devery:
Francis in the Navy
(1955),
The Loretta Young Show
(1953–1961),
The Girl Most Likely
(1958, with Paul Jarrico, WGAAn),
20th Century Fox Hour
(1958, WGAA), WGA Guild Service Award (1982), SWG founding member

Freeman, Everett:
The Princess and the Pirate
(1944, with Don Hartman and Melville Shavelson),
Bachelor Father
(1957–1962),
Marjorie Morningstar
(1958)

Froelick, Anne:
The Master Race
(1944, with Herbert Biberman),
Harriet Craig
(1950, with James Gunn), blacklisted

Furia, John, Jr.:
Bonanza
(1959–1973),
The Twilight Zone
(1959–1964),
The Singing Nun
(1966),
Hawaii Five-O
(1968–1980),
The Waltons
(1971–1981), WGAw president 1973–1975, Cox Award (1978), Davies Award (1990), North Award (1994), founding trustee Humanitas Prize, founding chair of writing division, USC School of Cinema-Television

Gaghan, Stephen:
NYPD Blue
(1993–2005, with Michael R. Perry and David Milch, EA),
Traffic
(2000, AA, WGAA),
Syriana
(2005, AAn, WGAAn)

Garcia, Greg Thomas:
Yes, Dear
(2000–2006, creator with Alan Kirschenbaum),
My Name Is Earl
(2005–2009, creator, EA, WGAAn, Humanitas Prize),
Raising Hope
(2010–present, creator)

Garrett, Lila:
Bewitched
(1964–1972),
The Other Woman
(1983, with Anne Meara, WGAA),
The Nanny
(1993–1999)

Gelbart, Larry:
Caesar’s Hour
(1954–1957, EAn),
M*A*S*H
(1972–1983, EA, WGAA, Humanitas Prize),
Oh, God!
(1977, AAn, WGAA), Laurel Award (1981),
Tootsie
(1982, with Murray Schisgal, AAn, WGAA),
Barbarians at the Gate
(1993, EAn, WGAA), Davies Award (2007)

Gelsey, Erwin:
Flying Down to Rio
(1933),
Gold Diggers of 1933
(1933),
Swing Time
(1936)

George, Terry:
In the Name of the Father
(1993, with Jim Sheridan, AAn, WGAAn),
The District
(2000–2004, creator),
Hotel Rwanda
(2004, with Keir Pearson, AAn, WGAAn, Humanitas Prize)

Gibney, Sheridan:
The Story of Louis Pasteur
(1936, with Pierre Collings, AA),
Anthony Adverse
(1936), SWG president (1939–1941, 1947–1948),
Once Upon a Honeymoon
(1942, with Leo McCarey),
Bachelor Father
(1957–1962), blacklisted

Gilligan, Vince:
The X-Files
(1993–2002, with Chris Carter, John Shiban, and Frank Spotnitz, EAn),
Hancock
(2008, with Vincent Ngo),
Breaking Bad
(2008–2013, creator, EA, WGAA)

Gilroy, Tony:
The Cutting Edge
(1992),
Dolores Claiborne
(1995),
The Bourne Identity
(2002, with William Blake Herron),
Michael Clayton
(2007, AAn, WGAAn)

Goff, Ivan:
White Heat
(1949, with Ben Roberts and Virginia Kellogg),
Man of a Thousand Faces
(1957, with Ralph Wheelwright, R. Wright Campbell, and Ben Roberts, AAn),
Mannix
(1967–1975),
Charlie’s Angels
(1976–1981, creator with Ben Roberts)

Goldemberg, Rose Leiman:
The Burning Bed
(1984, EAn WGAA),
Stone Pillow
(1985),
Florence Nightingale
(1985)

Goldman, William:
Harper
(1966, WGAAn),
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969, AA, WGAA),
All the President’s Men
(1976, AA, WGAA),
Marathon Man
(1976, WGAAn), Laurel Award (1985),
The Princess Bride
(1987, WGAAn),
Misery
(1990)

Goodman, David A.:
The Golden Girls
(1985–1992),
Family Guy
(1999–present),
Futurama
(1999–2013),
Star Trek: Enterprise
(2001–2005), Meltzer Award (2004, with Mike Barker, Rob Cohen, Jonathan Groff, Cheryl Holliday, Vanessa McCarthy, Glasgow Phillips, Jon Pollack, Jon Ross, Ron Weiner, Matt Weitzman, and Jean Yu, in recognition of extraordinary courage shown in their efforts to advance animation organizing)

Goodrich, Frances:
The Thin Man
(1934, with Albert Hackett, AAn),
It’s a Wonderful Life
(1946, with Albert Hackett and Frank Capra),
Father of the Bride
(1950, with Albert Hackett, AAn, WGAAn),
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
(1954, with Albert Hackett and Dorothy Kingsley, AAn, WGAA),
The Diary of Anne Frank
(1959, with Albert Hackett, WGAA), Laurel Award (1956)

Gordon, Bernard:
Flesh and Fury
(1952, with William Alland),
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
(1956, pseudonym Raymond T. Marcus, with George Worthing Yates and Curt Siodmak),
Hellcats of the Navy
(1957, pseudonym Raymond T. Marcus, with David Lang, credit restored 1997),
55 Days at Peking
(1963, pseudonym Philip Yordan, credit restored 1997), blacklisted

Gordon, Ruth:
Adam’s Rib
(1949, with Garson Kanin, AAn, WGAAn),
Pat and Mike
(1952, with Garson Kanin, AAn, WGAAn),
The Actress
(1953, WGAAn)

Gottlieb, Carl:
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
(1967–1970, EA),
Jaws
(1975, WGAAn),
The Jerk
(1979, with Steve Martin and Michael Elias), Cox Award (2010)

Graham, Garrett:
A Texas Steer
(1928, with Bernard McConville and Will Rogers),
The Noose
(1928),
Sweetheart of the Navy
(1937, with Carroll Graham and Jay Strauss)

Grant, Susannah:
Pocahontas
(1995),
Erin Brockovich
(2000, AAn, WGAAn),
A Gifted Man
(2011–2012, creator), Davies Award (2011, with Seth Freeman)