fiction.wikisort.org - ScreenwriterBill Kerby was a screenwriter for several Hollywood films and television series who wrote and co-wrote the 1970s films Hooper and The Rose.[1]
Bill Kerby |
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Born | United States |
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Nationality | American |
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Other names | Kent State University |
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Occupation | Screenwriter |
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Education and early career
Kerby received a B.A. from Kent State University in 1962 and an M.F.A. from UCLA; where he was a Louis B. Mayer grant winner and teaching assistant, graduating in 1969.[citation needed]
He served in the United States Marine Corps, 1955–58, and was an actor and Welfare Investigator in New York City in the early 1960s. He also taught at Sherwood Oaks School, in Los Angeles, in the 1970s, and the Summer writers' workshop at the National Film and Television School of England from 1985 to 1990.[citation needed]
Writing career
Film
- Last American Hero, starring Jeff Bridges and Valerie Perrine, 20th Century Fox, 1973, uncredited.
- The Gravy Train, starring Stacy Keach, Frederic Forrest, and Margot Kidder, Columbia, 1974, co-written.
- Hooper, starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Brian Keith, and Jan Michael Vincent, Warner Bros., 1977, co-screenplay.
- Firepower, starring James Coburn. Sophia Loren, Eli Wallach, and O. J. Simpson, ITC, story by.
- The Rose, starring Bette Midler, Alan Bates, and Frederic Forrest, Columbia, 1978, Academy Award nominations for Midler, Forrest, Best Music, Best Sound, Co-screenplay, sole story by.
- Dead Men Can't Dance, starring Michael Biehn, Kathleen York, Adrian Paul, and R. Lee Ermey, Live Entertainment, 1997, co-screenplay.
Television
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 2 episodes
- Steel Cowboy, movie-of-the-week, CBS, 1976.
- Dada is Death, CBS mini-series, 1989, best teleplay nomination from Australian Film Institute, written-by.
- Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee, for Turner Network Television and Fonda Films, 1994, winner American Indian Film Festival, winner First Americans in the Arts, winner best TV film and screenplay by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, nominee Humanitas Award for best teleplay.
- Shake Rattle and Roll, CBS mini-series, part 2, co-teleplay.
- Little Richard, NBC movie, 2000, co-written.
- On the Beach, Showtime, 2000, co-teleplay, mini-series nominated for Golden Globe, 2001.
- The Hatfields and the McCoys, History Channel, 6 hr. miniseries, highest rated non-sports cable show in TV history as of 2012,[citation needed] co-story by, all three nights. Nominated in 2012 for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special. This miniseries also won the Writer's Guild Award for Best Longform Teleplay 2013. Kevin Costner won Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild awards for his role.
References
- "Bill Kerby". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-04-27.
External links
Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Long Form – Original |
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- Michael Crichton (1996)
- Richard Alfieri and Susan Nanus / Stephanie Liss (1997)
- Robert Inman (1998)
- Nina Shengold (1999)
- Jerry Ludwig (2000)
- Phil Alden Robinson and Stanley Weiser / Tina Andrews (2001)
- Loring Mandel (2002)
- Hugh Whitemore and Larry Ramin (2003)
- Larry Gelbart (2004)
- Peter Silverman and Robert Caswell (2005)
- Margaret Nagle (2006)
- Nevin Schreiner (2007)
- Bryce Zabel and Jackie Zabel (2008)
- Danny Strong (2009)
- Michael Cristofer (2010)
- Peter Morgan (2011)
- David Seltzer (2012)
- Bill Kerby, Ted Mann and Ronald Parker (2013)
- Melissa Carter (2014)
- Seth Fisher, Walon Green, Chip Johannessen and Eric Overmyer (2015)
- Susannah Grant (2016)
- Barbara Stepansky (2017)
- Marc Bernardin, Scott Brown, Lila Byock, Mark Lafferty, Sam Shaw, Dustin Thomason, Gina Welch and Vinnie Wilhelm (2018)
- Craig Mazin (2019)
- Tanya Barfield, Joshua Griffith, Sharon Hoffman, Boo Killebrew, Micah Schraft, April Shih and Dahvi Waller (2020)
- Brad Ingelsby (2021)
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