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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]
- Screenwriter, playwright, producer
- September 12, 1951 (age 72), Buffalo, New York, United States
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
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Buffalo writer Tom Fontana is coming to Western New York on Sept. 28 and Sept. 29 to talk at his high school alma mater, Canisius, and his college alma mater, SUNY Buffalo State. He is doing a fundraising luncheon at Canisius and a day of classes at Buffalo State. During the strike, Fontana can still write but there are conditions.
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 ...
He worked at Studio Arena Theater in his hometown of Buffalo, NY before he began writing plays in New York City in 1973. Trivia. He has won numerous awards for his work including three Emmy Awards and three Writers' Guild Awards. Family Life. He was born the fourth of five children in his family and was married to actress Sagan Lewis for twelve ...
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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 ...
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 ...