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Nancy Dowd (born 1945) is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter whose credits include the films Slap Shot and Coming Home.
Nancy Dowd was born in 1945 in Framingham, Massachusetts, USA. She is a writer and director, known for Slap Shot (1977), Coming Home (1978) and Love (1982).
Nancy Maryanne Dow (July 22, 1936 – May 27, 2016) was an American television and film actress. She was married to actor John Aniston and was the mother of actress Jennifer Aniston.
Slap Shot is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by George Roy Hill, written by Nancy Dowd, and starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean. It depicts a minor league ice hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a factory town in decline.
Nancy Dowd was born in 1945 in Framingham, Massachusetts, USA. She is a writer and director, known for Slap Shot (1977), Coming Home (1978) and Love (1982).
Nancy Dow was born on July 22, 1936 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. She was an actress, known for The Wild Wild West (1965), The Ice House (1969) and Mr. Terrific (1967). She was married to John Aniston and John Tunis Melick, Jr.. She died on May 25, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Breakout Female Screenwriter of the 70’s. After graduating from Smith College, Nancy enrolls at UCLA determined to forge a career writing for film. Not only does she succeed, she ends up writing some of the most renowned films of the 70s and 80s, and even winning an Oscar for her first feature script COMING HOME, but while the original script ...
Feb 7, 2017 · The characters were brought to life by screenwriter Nancy Dowd, who turned a visit with her brother, Ned, a Johnstown player, into a chance to embed herself in the Jets’ dressing rooms, buses...
Born in 1945, Nancy Dowd was a graduate of the UCLA Film School, and made her first big splash with the raucous and unforgettable 1977 ice hockey comedy Slap Shot.
Feb 19, 2024 · Nancy Dowd had shadowed Ned’s team, the Johnstown Jets, for a month during the 1974-75 season of the North American Hockey League (NAHL), about the lowest rung of the minors, a place...
