Ernest Kinoy was an American writer, screenwriter and playwright.
16 Facts About Ernest Kinoy
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Ernest Kinoy attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School and later Columbia University, although his studies were interrupted by military service during World War II.
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Ernest Kinoy wrote the script for the short-lived series The Marriage, which was an adaptation of a previous Kinoy-scripted radio show of the same name.
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Ernest Kinoy was a writer for The Imogene Coca Show, which ran for one season following the conclusion of her run on Your Show of Shows in 1954.
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Ernest Kinoy contributed both original stories and adaptations, including an adaptation of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, to the anthology program NBC Presents: Short Story.
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Ernest Kinoy wrote the television adaptations for the musical Brigadoon, a 1966 ABC production, and for NBC's Pinocchio, which aired in 1968.
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Ernest Kinoy served as President of the Writers Guild of America, East from 1969 to 1971.
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Ernest Kinoy wrote the screenplays for two films starring Sidney Poitier: Brother John which was released in 1971 and the 1972 western film Buck and the Preacher, starring Poitier and Harry Belafonte.
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Leadbelly, based on the life of the blues musician Lead Belly and written by Ernest Kinoy was released in 1976.
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The 1976 Ernest Kinoy-scripted television movie Victory at Entebbe, made soon after the hostage-rescue operation at Entebbe Airport was nominated for four Emmys, including a nomination for Ernest Kinoy.
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Ernest Kinoy received another Emmy nomination as the head writer of the sequel to the series, Roots: The Next Generations, in 1979.
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Ernest Kinoy wrote the script for the 1986 HBO movie Murrow, based on the life of Edward R Murrow, and the teleplay for the television adaptation of the Gore Vidal novel Lincoln.
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Ernest Kinoy adapted the screenplay for the 1991 TV movie Chernobyl: The Final Warning from a book by Robert Peter Gale and Thomas Hauser.
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Ernest Kinoy wrote the "book" for the musicals Golden Rainbow, Bajour and Chaplin.
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In 1962, Ernest Kinoy wrote the play Something About a Soldier, which was based on the 1957 novel by Mark Harris.
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Ernest Kinoy was married to Barbara Powers, a doctor of psychotherapy, psychiatric social worker and an authority on the treatment of eating disorders, from 1948 until her death in 2007.