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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Douglas McGrath, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmography

• 2020Rifkin's Festival — Gil Brenner
• Godless — Edward Solomon
• 2016Becoming Mike Nichols — Director
• 2016Café Society — Norman
• 2011His Way — Director
• 2011I Don't Know How She Does It — Director
• 2009Solitary Man — Dean Edward Gitleson
• 2007Michael Clayton — Jeff Gaffney
• 2006Infamous — Screenplay, Director
• 2002Hollywood Ending — Barbeque Guest
• 2002Nicholas Nickleby — Director, Writer
• 2001Sounds from a Town I Love
• 2001The Concert for New York City
• 2000Company Man — Alan Quimp, Director, Writer
• 2000Small Time Crooks — Frenchy's Lawyer
• 1999The Insider — Private Investigator
• 1998Celebrity — Bill Gaines
• 1998Happiness — Tom
• 1997Prix Fixe — Bob Waterman
• 1997The Daytrippers — Chap
• 1996Emma — Director, Screenplay
• 1994Bullets Over Broadway — Writer
• 1994Quiz Show — Snodgrass
• 1993Born Yesterday — Screenplay
• Saturday Night Live — Dinner Guest (uncredited), Writer
• Beautiful — Musical

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2016Carole King: Natural Woman — Self
• 2011Woody Allen: A Documentary — Self
• 2002Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages — Self
• 1999Sweet and Lowdown — Himself