RESUME



EDUCATION

University of Southern California
Bachelor of Arts, Division of Cinema/Television

Protégé of six-time Oscar-winning filmmaker BILLY WILDER

Member
WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA, West
DRAMATISTS GUILD

LITERARY AGENT (Los Angeles): Joel Millner: 323-856-3070

EXPERIENCE

As Screenwriter:

TINY REVOLUTION (2005)

WHERE THERE'S A WILL (aka A FAMILY OF STRANGERS)
Larry Levinson Productions/Hallmark Channel, 2006
Directed by John Putch
Starring Marion Ross, Frank Whaley, Keith Carradine)

WHISTLING DIXIE (2003)

TEXAS: THE BIG PICTURE (IMAX) (2002)
(GSD&M/State of Texas)

THE BLACK AND THE GOLD (1999)

RHUBARB (1997)

THE COWBOY AND THE COUNTESS (1996)
A True Story of the Old West

OVER THE HILL GANG
(Spelling Entertainment, 1994)

CURTIS LEARNS TO DANCE
(Harris & Company, 1993)

PURE COUNTRY
Warner Brothers, 1992,
Produced by Jerry Weintraub
Directed by Christopher Cain
Starring George Strait, Lesley Ann Warren

BUCKMAN
(April Productions/Capella Films, 1991,
Based on the life of Patrick Buckman, private investigator)

YELLOW DOGS
(Paramount, 1990,
Adaptation, based on the novel by Donald Zochert)

WALTZ IN MARATHON
(1990, based on the novel by Charles Dickinson)

MEET MR. BRINK
(ITC Entertainment, 1989, Producers: Robert Simonds, Neal Moritz)

THE HARDY BOYS
(Nelvana Entertainment, 1988)

UNTYING THE KNOT
(Disney/Touchstone, 1987, Producer: Robert Simonds)

EASY LIVING
(Paramount, 1987, from an idea by Daryl Hannah)

SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON II
(Disney Sunday Movie, 1987, Producer: James Keach)

THE HONEYMOON
(20th Century Fox, 1985)

DECEPTION (1984)

THE LIFE OF THE PARTY (1982)

A LITTLE HONEST HELP
(Jonathan Sanger Productions, 1981,
Adaptation of Max Perkins, Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg

SIDE BY SIDE
(1979, based on The Boy Who Looked Like Shirley Temple, by Bill Mahan)


AS JOURNALIST
(published articles):

PLAYBOY
PERSONAL BEST: An Interview with ROBERT TOWNE
(cover, April, 1982)

LOS ANGELES
Our Own Outrageous Proposal to Save Hollywood (May, 1981)

AMERICAN FILM
Dreyfuss Unmoved (April, 1981)
Michael Ciminos Way West (cover, October, 1980)
All that Jazz...Swing...Pop...and Rock (July, 1980)
Star Wars Strikes Back (May, 1980)
The Bel-Air TV Circuit (February, 1980)
TVs Fall Offensive (September, 1979)
The Short Harried Life of Mrs. Columbo (June, 1979)
The Life and Hard Times of FEDORA (February, 1979)

KOCH INTERNATIONAL
Compact Disc Notes for
DOUBLE INDEMNITY: the Film Noir Scores of Miklos Rozsa
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by James Sedares (1997)

FILM PRODUCTION

PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO BILLY WILDER (1974-79) on

THE FRONT PAGE
(Universal, 1974)
Starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
Filmed in Los Angeles and San Francisco

FEDORA
(United Artists, 1979)
Starring William Holden, Marthe Keller and Henry Fonda,
Filmed on location in Greece, Germany and France

AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE DIRECTING INTERN (1974)
with Billy Wilder on THE FRONT PAGE

POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Billy Wilders FEDORA
Samuel Goldwyn Studios and 20th Century Fox Studios, 1978

CO-PRODUCER
Oscars Unsung Heroes episode of THATS HOLLYWOOD,
20th Century Fox Television, 1982

FILM EDITOR
METAPHOR (1975),
Documentary about painter Andrew Wyeth and
pioneer filmmaker King Vidor.
DIRECTED BY KING VIDOR.

FEATURE FILM STORY ANALYST
United Artists
The Ladd Company
Embassy Pictures

The Paul Kohner Agency