Douglas Geoffrey McGrath was an American screenwriter, film director, and actor.
24 Facts About Douglas McGrath
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Douglas McGrath received various accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Tony Award, and Primetime Emmy Award.
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Douglas McGrath co-wrote with Woody Allen the film Bullets Over Broadway, 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.
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Douglas McGrath then directed such films as Emma, Company Man, Nicholas Nickleby, and Infamous.
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Douglas McGrath appeared in such films as Quiz Show, The Daytrippers, Happiness, The Insider, and Michael Clayton.
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Douglas McGrath appeared in the Amazon Prime comedy series Crisis in Six Scenes, and the Netflix western limited series Godless.
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Douglas McGrath received a nomination for Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for the Broadway musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in 2014.
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Douglas McGrath directed the HBO documentaries His Way and Becoming Mike Nichols.
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Douglas McGrath 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.
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Doug McGrath was the son of Beatrice and R Searle McGrath, an independent oil producer from Midland, Texas.
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Douglas McGrath was an alumnus of Trinity School of Midland, The Choate School, and Princeton University.
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Douglas McGrath started his career as a writer on the sixth season of Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1981.
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Douglas McGrath continued his relationship with Allen acting in several of his films including Celebrity, Small Time Crooks, Hollywood Ending, Cafe Society, and Rifkin's Festival.
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Douglas McGrath soon gained further success as both a writer and director of the film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, Emma starring Gwyneth Paltrow.
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The film gained critical acclaim and Douglas McGrath received a Writers Guild of America Award nomination.
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Douglas McGrath continued his career as a director with the comedy Company Man starring himself, Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro, and Alan Cumming.
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Douglas McGrath soon returned to directing with the film adaptation of Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby starring Jamie Bell, Anne Hathaway, Nathan Lane, Timothy Spall, Jim Broadbent, and Christopher Plummer.
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Douglas McGrath was known for his documentaries including His Way which profiled film producer and talent manager Jerry Weintraub and for Becoming Mike Nichols, both of which were produced by HBO.
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In 2014, Douglas McGrath wrote the book for the Broadway musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.
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The musical received critical acclaim and Douglas McGrath earned a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical nomination as well Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations.
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Douglas McGrath suffered a heart attack and died during the production's run.
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In 1995, McGrath married Jane Read Martin, a former assistant of Woody Allen's and sister of author Ann M Martin.
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Douglas McGrath died of a heart attack at his office in Manhattan on November 3,2022, at the age of 64.
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Douglas McGrath had been performing Off-Broadway in his solo autobiographical show Everything's Fine directed by John Lithgow at the Daryl Roth Theatre, a run which was cut short by his death.