Arthur Carlton Cuse was born on March 22,1959 and is a screenwriter, showrunner, producer, and director, best known for the American television series Lost, for which he made the Time list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010.
50 Facts About Carlton Cuse
2.
Carlton Cuse was born in Mexico City, Mexico, to American parents.
3.
Carlton Cuse's father was working in Mexico for Cuse's grandfather, who had a machine-tool manufacturing business.
4.
Carlton Cuse went to boarding school at the Putney School in Vermont.
5.
At the Putney School, Carlton Cuse said that he realized he wanted to be a writer.
6.
Carlton Cuse attended Harvard University and was recruited at freshmen registration by Ted Washburn for the rowing team.
7.
Carlton Cuse said then was when he started thinking about a career in film.
8.
Carlton Cuse teamed up with a Harvard classmate, Hans Tobeason, and made a documentary about rowing at Harvard called Power Ten.
9.
Carlton Cuse convinced actor, writer, and fellow Harvard graduate George Plimpton to narrate the film.
10.
In 1984, Carlton Cuse took a job working as an assistant producer for Bernard Schwartz and then spent a year and a half working on Sweet Dreams, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Jessica Lange and Ed Harris.
11.
Carlton Cuse described the experience as his version of film school.
12.
Carlton Cuse formed a partnership with feature writer Jeffrey Boam, with whom he helped develop the films Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 3, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
13.
Carlton Cuse wrote the screenplay for the 2015 disaster film San Andreas.
14.
Carlton Cuse said yes and wrote The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
15.
Boam went back to making features, leaving Carlton Cuse to write and serve as sole showrunner of the critically acclaimed series.
16.
On November 27,2021, USA Network aired a two-hour original Nash Bridges film, but Carlton Cuse was not involved in the revival.
17.
Carlton Cuse created and executive produced the CBS series Martial Law, starring Arsenio Hall and Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, one of martial arts legend Jackie Chan's closest friends and collaborators.
18.
Carlton Cuse adapted the world of Hong Kong cinema to American television in a story about a Shanghai cop who comes to the LAPD on an exchange program.
19.
Carlton Cuse cast Hong Kong film star Sammo Hung, making him the first Chinese actor to star as the lead in an American TV series.
20.
Carlton Cuse was showrunning both Nash Bridges and the first season of Martial Law simultaneously, writing and producing 46 episodes of television in one network season.
21.
Carlton Cuse was an executive producer and joint showrunner on Lost with Damon Lindelof.
22.
Carlton Cuse hired Lindelof, giving him his first staff-writer job on a television series.
23.
Lindelof had no experience as a showrunner and called Carlton Cuse for showrunning advice on the side.
24.
Carlton Cuse subsequently trained Lindelof to be his co-showrunner, and together they ran the show for all of its six-year run.
25.
Lindelof and Carlton Cuse helped start the trend of showrunners becoming celebrities, often as prominent as the actors themselves in TV series.
26.
Carlton Cuse says he wanted to use other media to tell stories that would never make it onto the network show.
27.
Carlton Cuse believes this ARG redefined the way in which the internet and a TV show could be integrated, and broke new ground in how a TV show could be marketed.
28.
Carlton Cuse was showrunner, executive producer, developer, and writer of The Strain, an FX drama series based on the vampire novel trilogy by co-authors Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.
29.
Carlton Cuse made his directorial debut with The Strains third-season finale.
30.
Carlton Cuse was showrunner, co-developer, writer, and executive producer of The Returned, based on the popular and International Emmy Award-winning French suspense series Les Revenants, adapted by Fabrice Gobert and inspired by the feature film, They Came Back, directed by Robin Campillo.
31.
Carlton Cuse served as the showrunner for the first two seasons of the series.
32.
Carlton Cuse co-wrote, with Roland, five of the eight episodes for the first season and directed one.
33.
In March 2019, Carlton Cuse announced he was stepping back from day-to-day showrunner duties of Jack Ryan after the second season to focus on projects.
34.
Carlton Cuse would remain involved in Jack Ryan as an executive producer.
35.
For Netflix, Carlton Cuse redeveloped and recast the show and did not use any of an existing Hulu pilot.
36.
Two were directed by Carlton Cuse, three were directed by Ridley, and three were directed by Wendey Stanzler.
37.
Carlton Cuse's original reporting for the Times and ProPublica, depicting the difficulties a New Orleans hospital endured after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the city, led to her being awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
38.
Carlton Cuse is well known for his successful mentorship of other screenwriters.
39.
Carlton Cuse has long advocated that working in collaboration with other writers is the best methodology of achieving creative success in television.
40.
Over 30 writers who have worked with Carlton Cuse have gone on to run their own shows, including Damon Lindelof, Shawn Ryan, Kerry Ehrin, Raelle Tucker, Meredith Averill, Pam Veasey, Ryan Condal and Graham Roland.
41.
In 2015, for his mentorship work Carlton Cuse was given Variety's Creative Leadership Award at their annual event for Hollywood's New Leaders, with the award being presented by Damon Lindelof.
42.
Carlton Cuse has been nominated for ten Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on Lost and has won twice: first in 2005 for Outstanding Drama Series, then in 2009 for Creative Achievement in Interactive Media.
43.
Carlton Cuse has received five nominations at Producers Guild of America Awards, with a win in 2006 for Television Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Drama; three nominations and wins from the American Film Institute; and twelve nominations at the Television Critics Association, including three wins in for Outstanding Achievement in Drama in 2005,2006 and 2010, and a win for Outstanding New Program in 2005.
44.
Carlton Cuse received four nominations from the Writers Guild of America Awards, including a win in 2006 for Best Dramatic Series, and five Saturn Award nominations with four wins in 2004,2005,2007 and 2009 for Best Network Television Series.
45.
Carlton Cuse received nominations from the NAACP Image Awards, the Hugo Awards and the People's Choice Awards.
46.
In 2007, Carlton Cuse shared the British Academy Television Award for Best International Series for Lost.
47.
In 2010, Carlton Cuse was voted one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World".
48.
Carlton Cuse has won the TV Guide Award for Martial Law, which was voted the Favorite New Series in 1999.
49.
In 2015, Carlton Cuse received Variety's Creative Leadership Award, following past recipients including Judd Apatow and Jerry Weintraub.
50.
That same year, Carlton Cuse won the Dan Curtis Legacy Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, for lifetime achievement.