Douglas Geoffrey McGrath was an American screenwriter, film director and actor. He started his career as a writer on the sixth season of the Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1981, he co-wrote his musical comedy film with Woody Allen, and it gained an audience as it depicted things that happen in life. He received a nomination for the Academy Award for the Best Original Screenplay, he also got a BAFTA Award, Independent Spirit Award and Writers Guild of America Award nomination. He acted films s... moreDouglas Geoffrey McGrath was an American screenwriter, film director and actor. He started his career as a writer on the sixth season of the Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1981, he co-wrote his musical comedy film with Woody Allen, and it gained an audience as it depicted things that happen in life. He received a nomination for the Academy Award for the Best Original Screenplay, he also got a BAFTA Award, Independent Spirit Award and Writers Guild of America Award nomination. He acted films such as Celebrity, Small Time, Crooks, Hollywood Ending and Café Society. He started film writing and directing in 1996 and he adapted the Jane Austen’s novel Emma and the film gained critical acclaim. McGrath also did documentaries, and he wrote a book for the Broadway musical Beautiful; The Carole King Musical and it earned the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical nomination as well as Drama desk Award. He did his last film in 2022. He wrote his one-man-show Everything’s Fine, and it premiered Off-Broadway at the DR2 Theatre.
McGrath is the alumnus of the Trinity School of Midland, The Choate School, and Princeton University. He was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club, and he later became its board of directors’ member after graduation. He was married to Jane Read Martin, and they had one child together. McGrath died at the age of 64 after suffering a heart attack in his office in Manhattan during the production run of his one-man-show.
