Frank D Gilroy

AKA:
Frank Daniel Gilroy
Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
10/13/1925
Birthplace:
New York, New York
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biography
Award-winning playwright who began his career during the "Golden Age" of live TV and entered film as a screenwriter in 1956 with "Fastest Gun Alive". Gilroy won acclaim on the New York stage with his Obie Award-winning "Who'll Save the Plowboy?" (1962); he won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for his Broadway debut, "The Subject Was Roses", a powerful autobiographical drama about a post-war, dysfunctional family that he adapted to film in 1968.

Gilroy subsesquently branched out into directing, and sometimes producing, quirky films based on his own highly personal screenplays such as "Desperate Continued

Credits
The Gallant Hours
screenplay
Once in Paris
Director
Desperate Characters
Director
The Gig
Director
From Noon Till Three
Director
The Luckiest Man in the World
Director
The Only Game in Town
Play as Source Material
Desperate Characters
screenplay
The Gig
screenplay
The Only Game in Town
screenplay
The Subject Was Roses
screenplay
Once in Paris
screenplay
From Noon Till Three
Novel as Source Material
From Noon Till Three
screenplay
The Subject Was Roses
Play as Source Material
The Fastest Gun Alive
screenplay
The Fastest Gun Alive
Novel as Source Material
The Luckiest Man in the World
screenplay
Desperate Characters
Producer
Once in Paris
Producer
milestones
Year
Milestone
1943 
Served in US Army
1949 
First play produced, "The Middle World" at Dartmouth College
1952 
Became a TV writer
 
Wrote teleplays for "Playhouse 90", "Omnibus", "Studio One", "U.S. Steel Hour", "Kraft Theatre" and "Lux Video"
1956 
Debut as screenwriter, "Fastest Gun Alive" (with Russell Rouse; adapted from Gilroy's short story "The Last Notch" and play)
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