Douglas McGrath

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 cowrote 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 Dunhams 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Douglas McGrath licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia