Jim Mulholland

American screenwriter
Jim Mulholland
NationalityAmerican
OccupationScreenwriter
Years active1968−present

Jim Mulholland (born in Rockville Centre, New York) is an American television writer and film screenwriter.

Career

At nineteen, he was the youngest writer ever on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.[1] He has since won a Writers Guild Award and has received twenty Emmy nominations in the late-night comedy category.[2][3][4][5] He co-wrote the screenplays for Amazon Women on the Moon, Oscar, The Ratings Game,[6] Bad Boys,[7] and television specials including SCTV comedy special Public Enemy #2.[8]

Filmography

  • Favorite Deadly Sins (TV movie) (segment "Greed") (1995)
  • Bad Boys (1995)
  • Public Enemy #2 (1993)
  • Basic Values: Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's (TV movie) (1993)
  • Life As We Know It! (TV movie) (1991)
  • Oscar (screenplay) (1991)
  • Amazon Women on the Moon (writer) (1987)
  • Many Happy Returns (TV movie) (1986)
  • The Ratings Game (TV movie) (writer) (1984)
  • Welcome to the Fun Zone (TV movie) (1984)
  • Focus on Fishko (Short) (writer) (1983)
  • Likely Stories, Vol. 2 (TV movie) (1983)
  • Likely Stories, Vol. 4 (TV movie) (1983)
  • The Selling of Vince D'Angelo (TV movie) (1983)

References

  1. ^ "And for Carson's supporting cast, a void", Los Angeles Times, May 17, 1992.
  2. ^ 'The Ratings Game', Los Angeles Times, August 25, 1984.
  3. ^ Nominations for Prime-Time Emmys, Los Angeles Times, August 1, 1986.
  4. ^ The Emmy Nominations, Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2006.
  5. ^ Jim Mulholland at IMDb.
  6. ^ `Women on the Moon' - Takeoff!, USA Today, September 18, 1987.
  7. ^ Bad Boys, Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, April 6, 1996.
  8. ^ Public Enemy #2, Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly, November 8, 1991, "The Gold Standard", David Steinberg, Los Angeles Times Magazine, February 8, 2009.

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