
Douglas McGrath
Biography
Douglas Geoffrey McGrath (February 2, 1958 – November 3, 2022) was an American screenwriter, film director, and actor. He received various accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Tony Award, and Primetime Emmy Award.
McGrath started his career as a writer for Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1981. He co-wrote with Woody Allen the film Bullets Over Broadway (1994), 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. He then directed such films as Emma (1996), Company Man (2000), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), and Infamous (2006). He also appeared in such films as Quiz Show (1994), The Daytrippers (1996), Happiness (1998), The Insider (1999), and Michael Clayton (2007).
He also made appearances in television including a recurring role as Principal Toby Cook in Lena Dunham's HBO series Girls from 2015 to 2016. He also appeared in the Amazon Prime comedy series Crisis in Six Scenes (2016), and the Netflix western limited series Godless (2017).
McGrath received a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical nomination for the Broadway musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in 2014. He also directed the HBO documentaries His Way (2011), and Becoming Mike Nichols (2016). He 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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Acting (18 movies)

Celebrity
1998

Hollywood Ending
2002

Small Time Crooks
2000

Company Man
2000

Solitary Man
2009

Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011

Quiz Show
1994

Carole King: Natural Woman
2016

The Insider
1999

Café Society
2016

Sweet and Lowdown
1999

Rifkin’s Festival
2020

Michael Clayton
2007

The Daytrippers
1997

Happiness
1998

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002

The Concert for New York City
2001

Sounds from a Town I Love
2001
Directing (7 movies)
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Born Yesterday | 1993 | Screenplay | 
| Bullets Over Broadway | 1994 | Screenplay | 
| Emma | 1996 | Screenplay | 
| Company Man | 2000 | Writer | 
| Nicholas Nickleby | 2002 | Writer | 
| Infamous | 2006 | Screenplay | 





