Search results
Tom Fontana (born September 12, 1951) is an American screenwriter, writer, and television producer. Fontana worked on NBC 's Homicide: Life on the Street and created HBO 's Oz. [1]
In his three-and-a-half-hour interview, Tom Fontana talks about his early life, being a theater major in college, and deciding he wanted to be a writer. He describes being "discovered" by Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner, which led to him writing for the critically acclaimed NBC series St. Elsewhere. He recounts his time on St. Elsewhere, recalling the cast, various classic episodes, the ...
People also ask
Who is Tom Fontana?
Who is Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order?
How many Emmys has Fontana won?
Did Sagan and Fontana remarry?
Tom Fontana. Writer: St. Elsewhere. Tom Fontana was born on September 12, 1951 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He is an Emmy Award winning writer and producer, known for Copper (2012), Borgia (2011), Oz (1997), Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and St. Elsewhere (1982). He was twice married to Sagan Lewis, before her death in 2016.
- September 12, 1951
Oct 19, 2012 · St. Elsewhere. to. Copper. , Tom Fontana Walks Us Through His TV Résumé. Sunday night at ten, BBC America will air the first season finale of the just-renewed Copper, the Tom Fontana– and ...
- Josef Adalian
- West Coast Editor
While Tom Fontana was playwright-in-residence at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Jake and Gwyneth Paltrow saw his play 'The Spectre Bridegroom' and insisted their father, producer Bruce Paltrow ...
Sep 10, 2001 · In his Archive interview, Tom Fontana talks about his work as an Emmy Award-winning writer of St. Elsewhere , as well as the writer/producer of such series as Homicide: Life on the Street and Oz . Tom Fontana was interviewed in New York, NY on June 30, 2009; Karen Herman conducted the three-hour interview. you can find the interview here
Feb 21, 2012 · Emily St. James. Of the many writers who helped change U.S. TV drama in the 1980s, allowing it to incorporate serialized story arcs and offer more complicated characters, Tom Fontana has led one ...
