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David Greenwalt is a Director, Writer and Associate Producer American born on 16 october 1949 at Los Angeles (USA)

David Greenwalt

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Nationality USA
Birth 16 october 1949 (74 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

David Greenwalt (born October 16, 1949) is an American screenwriter, director and producer.

He was the co-executive producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and co-creator of its spinoff, Angel. He is also co-creator of the short-lived cult television show Profit. He recently co-created the NBC supernatural drama Grimm.

Biography

Carrière
Débuts et révélation (1983-1996)
Après avoir signé les scripts d'une poignée de longs-métrages durant les années 1980, et en réalisé deux, il débute en tant que scénariste/réalisateur de télévision.

Entre 1990 et 1992, il signe deux scénarios d'une éphémère série d'avocats, Shannon's Deal, puis trois de la cinquième saison de la série culte The Wonder Years, dont il réalise aussi quelques segments. Il collabore ensuite avec l'ex-avocat David E. Kelley sur la série médicale Docteur Doogie, pour qui il écrit un épisode. Mais c'est le producteur Stephen J. Cannell qui l'engage pour une éphémère série policière, The Hat Squad en 1993, puis le fait passer sur sa comédie dramatique policière L'As de la crime, dont il signe 10 épisodes, et lui permet de passer producteur.

En 1996, il co-créé avec John McNamara la série d'avocats Profit, qui est néanmoins arrêtée rapidement par la chaîne FOX, à la suite d'audiences jugées insuffisantes. Mais le ton très adulte et irrévérencieux vaut un programme un large soutien critique. Greenwalt rejoint alors la prestigieuse The X-Files, le temps des derniers épisodes de la quatrième saison alors diffusée. Cette double expérience l'impose comme un scénariste/réalisateur à suivre.


Confirmation, puis échecs (1997-2007)
Il rejoint la même année l'équipe créative d'une nouvelle série fantastique pour adolescents, Buffy contre les vampires, créée et développée par un jeune scénariste débutant, Joss Whedon. La série est un succès critique et commercial, et une série dérivée est commandée par le diffuseur.

En 1999, il co-créé avec Whedon la série fantastique Angel, dont le héros, un vampire devenu détective privé, se retrouve à lutter contre un cabinet d'avocats démoniaque. La série est un nouveau succès, mais le scénariste part à la fin de la troisième saison, pourtant acclamée par la critique. Il conservera un statut de consultant sur les deux prochaines et dernières saisons, et ne reviendra que pour mettre en scène un épisode de la dernière saison.

En 2003, il lance en effet sa nouvelle série, la fantastique Miracles, qui est arrêtée au bout d'une unique saison de 13 épisodes, faute d'audiences, et malgré un bon accueil critique. Il enchaîne avec une quatrième création, cette fois dans le registre de la science-fiction, Jake 2.0. Le programme, qui raconte les aventures d'un jeune informaticien travaillant pour la NSA devenant agent secret à la suite d'un accident de laboratoire, est néanmoins arrêté au bout d'une saison, faute d'audiences, et après des critiques mitigées.

Il se contente d'un poste de producteur consultant sur ses prochains emplois : l'éphémère série fantastique Surface, en 2005, puis la première saison de la série de science-fiction décalée Eureka, en 2006. La même année, il se réinvestit dans une nouvelle série : le polar à suspense Kidnapped, qui s'arrête néanmoins au bout d'une saison.


Retour aux sources (2007-2016)
En 2007, il est recruté pour développer les premiers épisodes de la série Moonlight, qui raconte les aventures d'un vampire détective privé. Ce retour aux sources ne lui porte pas chance, et le programme est aussi arrêté.

Après une absence de quatre ans, il revient en 2011 avec une série fantastique co-créée avec un ancien scénariste d'Angel, Jim Kouf. Grimm connait un succès confidentiel durant six saisons sur la chaîne NBC.

Usually with

Jim Kouf
Jim Kouf
(6 films)
Aaron Russo
Aaron Russo
(1 films)
Ken Lerner
Ken Lerner
(2 films)
Greydon Clark
Greydon Clark
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of David Greenwalt (7 films)

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Director

Rude Awakening, 1h40
Directed by Aaron Russo, David Greenwalt
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Eric Roberts, Cheech Marin, Julie Hagerty, Robert Carradine, Tom Sizemore, Andrea Martin
Rating48% 2.407212.407212.407212.407212.40721
In 1969 New York City, two hippies, Fred Wook (Eric Roberts) and Jesus Monteya (Cheech Marin), flee the US to avoid arrest by the FBI and hide out in the jungles of Central America. Fred is an idealist, working on an underground newspaper with his friend Sammy (Robert Carradine), while Jesus is a stoner whose brain has been fried after being given huge amounts of LSD by researchers (the theory being that acid and appropriate visual stimulation can turn pacifist hippies into committed soldiers; Jesus proves their failure by wishing them 'peace' as he leaves the lab.) The two flee the inner-city commune they are living in, leaving behind Sammy who feels it is important that he keep writing and publishing their message, and Fred's girlfriend, artist Petra (Julie Hagerty).
Secret Admirer, 1h30
Directed by David Greenwalt
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors C. Thomas Howell, Lori Loughlin, Kelly Preston, Fred Ward, Dee Wallace, Leigh Taylor-Young
Rating65% 3.2534153.2534153.2534153.2534153.253415
Michael Ryan is a high school student who receives an anonymous love letter. Michael is obsessed with Deborah Ann Fimple, the class beauty, and his best friend, Roger, convinces him that the letter is from her. However, he is totally oblivious that his friend Toni Williams is in love with him. Michael writes Deborah Ann an anonymous love letter in return, and asks Toni to give it to her. Toni realizes the letter is poorly written and unromantic (since Michael had copied words from greeting cards), so she rewrites it. Elizabeth Fimple, Deborah Ann's mother, discovers the letter. Her jealous police officer husband, Lou Fimple, sees her reading it. He steals the letter, and believes that his wife is having an affair. He suspects his neighbor (and bridge partner) George Ryan. George also mistakenly reads the letter because Lou's wife is his night school teacher and it somehow ends up in his book. When George asks her about it he assumes she wants to have an affair with him despite the fact his wife and she are friends. Meanwhile, Lou shows the letter to George's wife, Connie, and proposes that they expose the adulterers. Receiving no response from Deborah Ann, Michael writes a second letter, which Toni again rewrites.

Scriptwriter

Secret Admirer, 1h30
Directed by David Greenwalt
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors C. Thomas Howell, Lori Loughlin, Kelly Preston, Fred Ward, Dee Wallace, Leigh Taylor-Young
Roles Writer
Rating65% 3.2534153.2534153.2534153.2534153.253415
Michael Ryan is a high school student who receives an anonymous love letter. Michael is obsessed with Deborah Ann Fimple, the class beauty, and his best friend, Roger, convinces him that the letter is from her. However, he is totally oblivious that his friend Toni Williams is in love with him. Michael writes Deborah Ann an anonymous love letter in return, and asks Toni to give it to her. Toni realizes the letter is poorly written and unromantic (since Michael had copied words from greeting cards), so she rewrites it. Elizabeth Fimple, Deborah Ann's mother, discovers the letter. Her jealous police officer husband, Lou Fimple, sees her reading it. He steals the letter, and believes that his wife is having an affair. He suspects his neighbor (and bridge partner) George Ryan. George also mistakenly reads the letter because Lou's wife is his night school teacher and it somehow ends up in his book. When George asks her about it he assumes she wants to have an affair with him despite the fact his wife and she are friends. Meanwhile, Lou shows the letter to George's wife, Connie, and proposes that they expose the adulterers. Receiving no response from Deborah Ann, Michael writes a second letter, which Toni again rewrites.
American Dreamer, 1h45
Directed by Rick Rosenthal
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Actors JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti, Coral Browne, Giancarlo Giannini, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Jean Rougerie
Roles Writer
Rating64% 3.2467653.2467653.2467653.2467653.246765
A voice over says, "No, that's not right." The scenario is repeated with adjustments until the voice is eventually satisfied. The screen fades to Cathy Palmer (JoBeth Williams) sitting at a typewriter, finishing up the story. She seals it in an envelope and sends it off. Later, her husband, Kevin (James Staley), comes home and she tells him about entering a contest to write a short story following the "Rebecca Ryan" series of novels. Kevin is patronizing, telling her, "The important thing, kid, is that you're doing something you like to do".
Class
Class (1983)
, 1h38
Directed by Lewis John Carlino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about virginity
Actors Andrew McCarthy, Jacqueline Bisset, Rob Lowe, Cliff Robertson, John Cusack, Alan Ruck
Roles Writer
Rating59% 2.999432.999432.999432.999432.99943
When Jonathan Ogner (Andrew McCarthy) first shows up to prep school, he is laughed at for wearing his school uniform. He then goes up to his dorm and meets his new roommate (Rob Lowe), who introduces himself as Squire Franklin Burroughs IV but tells Jonathan to call him "Skip." Skip then takes off his trench coat and is shown to be wearing a red bra and girls' underwear. He explains to the shocked Jonathan that it isn't what it looks like and that it's a tradition for the seniors to parade around campus wearing only girls' underwear. When Jonathan doesn't have any, Skip gives him a set that he had in his dresser. Skip and Jonathan travel out of the dorm together until they get to the final door where Skip stays behind and locks the door. The other students begin to laugh and mock Jonathan for wearing girls' underwear. Mortified, Jonathan attempts to flee the scene. After discovering that Skip has locked all the doors, Jonathan climbs a trellis that leads into his dorm where he finds Skip lying on the floor laughing hysterically.
Utilities
Utilities (1983)
, 1h34
Directed by Harvey Hart
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy
Actors Robert Hays, Brooke Adams, John Marley
Roles Story
Rating51% 2.5566552.5566552.5566552.5566552.556655
One of Bob Hunt's (Hays) neighbours' electricity is cut off because she cannot pay the bill. She is assisted by contributions, and the bill is paid entirely in pennies, though the clerk is belatedly told that payment is not accepted in such a large quantity of coins.
Wacko
Wacko (1982)
, 1h30
Directed by Greydon Clark
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Joe Don Baker, Stella Stevens, George Kennedy, Julia Duffy, Andrew Dice Clay, Charles Napier
Roles Writer
Rating49% 2.457642.457642.457642.457642.45764
It all started exactly 13 years ago, when Mary Graves' older sister was murdered on Halloween prom night by a power-mowing maniac. Poor Mary...since then she has experienced horror, sexual frustration, even psychoanalysis, but she still sees little lawnmowers everywhere. But tonight will be different. Tonight, at the new Halloween Prom, all the questions of the past 13 years will be answered as the pumpkin headed killer has returned. But hot on their trail is an obsessed cop (Joe Don Baker) who won't allow history to repeat itself.

Producer

Miracles
Miracles (1986)
, 1h27
Directed by Jim Kouf
Genres Comedy
Actors Teri Garr, Paul Rodriguez, Christopher Lloyd, Tom Conti, Ken Lerner, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez
Roles Executive Producer
Rating52% 2.6094452.6094452.6094452.6094452.609445
Elle est avocate, il est chirurgien. Après dix ans de mariage, Roger et Jean viennent de se séparer. Le lendemain même de leur divorce, une collision entre voitures les remet en présence l'un de l'autre. Pour se disputer, bien entendu. Cependant, privée de moyen de transport, Jean est bien obligée d'accepter d'être ramenée par Roger. Entretemps, le véhicule de ce dernier a été investi par deux révolutionnaires mexicains, Juan et Harris, qui prennent le couple en otage...
Class
Class (1983)
, 1h38
Directed by Lewis John Carlino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about virginity
Actors Andrew McCarthy, Jacqueline Bisset, Rob Lowe, Cliff Robertson, John Cusack, Alan Ruck
Roles Associate Producer
Rating59% 2.999432.999432.999432.999432.99943
When Jonathan Ogner (Andrew McCarthy) first shows up to prep school, he is laughed at for wearing his school uniform. He then goes up to his dorm and meets his new roommate (Rob Lowe), who introduces himself as Squire Franklin Burroughs IV but tells Jonathan to call him "Skip." Skip then takes off his trench coat and is shown to be wearing a red bra and girls' underwear. He explains to the shocked Jonathan that it isn't what it looks like and that it's a tradition for the seniors to parade around campus wearing only girls' underwear. When Jonathan doesn't have any, Skip gives him a set that he had in his dresser. Skip and Jonathan travel out of the dorm together until they get to the final door where Skip stays behind and locks the door. The other students begin to laugh and mock Jonathan for wearing girls' underwear. Mortified, Jonathan attempts to flee the scene. After discovering that Skip has locked all the doors, Jonathan climbs a trellis that leads into his dorm where he finds Skip lying on the floor laughing hysterically.