Jeff Maguire

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Jeff Maguire (* 1952 ) is an American screenwriter who became internationally known for films such as Escape or Victory , In the Line of Fire - The Second Chance , Timeline or Parole .

life and career

Jeff Maguire, born in 1952 and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut , lost his father to a stroke at the age of 14, after which the mother, a nurse, was forced to look after the four children on her own. Maguire developed an interest in writing while at Hampshire College in Amherst , Massachusetts . After college he worked in Alaska on the railroad and as a waiter in a restaurant in Beverly Hills , after which he moved to New York to work on industrial films for his friend Djordje Milicevic. The two also co-wrote a film about dog sled racing, which was eventually produced in Canada in the 1980s.

In 1981 he made his breakthrough as a screenwriter with his story for the cinema production Escape or Victory, a drama with Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone , directed by old master John Huston . In 1983 he married the writer Lynn Nau, a schoolteacher, and in 1985 the couple had a son named Danny. In 1986 he wrote the script for the Canadian action drama Toby McTeague by Jean-Claude Lord together with Djordje Milicevic and Jamie Brown . Between 1986 and 1992, a time that was financially tense for him, during which he wrote several screenplays that were never made into a film, Maguire received an Oscar nomination in 1994 in the category of Best Original Screenplay for his work on Wolfgang Petersen's dramatic thriller In the Line of Fire - The second chance with Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich in the leading roles, who also solved his financial problems in one fell swoop. The script also received nominations for the BAFTA Awards , the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, and the Writers Guild of America .

In early 2003, Richard Donner's science fiction film Timeline was scripted, and Phil Joanou's sports drama, Game on Probation, was written for Columbia Pictures in 2006 .

Jeff Maguire now lives in Manhattan Beach, California.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeff Maguire. In: Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz: Clint Eastwood: Interviews, Revised and Updated. , University Press of Mississippi, 2012, p. 154
  2. ↑ Jeff Maguire. In: Bernard Weintraub: With 'Line of Fire,' Writer Discovers Ending for Hollywood-Failure Story. , The New York Times, 1993
personal data
SURNAME Maguire, Jeff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH United States