TS Cook

Thomas Stephen Cook (born August 25, 1947 in Cleveland , Ohio , † January 5, 2013 in Hollywood , California ) was an American screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Cook began his work in the film business in 1976 with a screenplay for the television series Baretta . In 1978 a script for an episode of the series The Paper Chase followed , and the following year he participated in The China Syndrome , his only cinema production. Subsequently, he was exclusively involved in television productions until 2008. The script for the 1995 film The Honor to Fly is based on a story by Cook.

For the screenplay for The China Syndrome , Cook and his colleagues Mike Gray and James Bridges were nominated for an Oscar in 1980 in the category Best Original Screenplay. In the same year they also received a nomination for the BAFTA Film Award and the Golden Globe . The Writers Guild of America honored the three with a WGA Award.

Cook received another WGA Award in 1990 for his screenplay for Operation Nightbreaker .

Cook died of complications from cancer. He was married to the writer Marie Monique de Varennes and had three children.

Filmography (selection)

• 1978: Baretta (TV series)
• 1979: The China Syndrome (The China Syndrome)
• 1981: Operation Red Flag (Red Flag: The Ultimate Game)
• 1981: Bronx Justice (We're Fighting Back)
• 1985: The Night When the Killer Comes (Out of the Darkness)
• 1989: High Desert Kill
• 1989: Operation Nightbreaker (Nightbreaker)
• 1992: Gang War (In the Line of Duty: Street War)
• 1995: The Honor to Fly (The Tuskegee Airmen) (TV movie)
• 1996: Forced to Lie (Forgotten Sins)
• 2008: Killer Ants (The Hive)
• 2008: The Death Twister (NYC: Tornado Terror)

Web links

• TS Cook in the Internet Movie Database (English)