Douglas Bowie
Douglas Bowie (born 1944) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter from Kingston, Ontario.[1]
Born and raised in Ottawa, he attended Queen's University and Carleton University, and worked in advertising copywriting in his early career.[2] He won second prize in a television writing contest sponsored by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1967 for Who Was the Lone Ranger?,[3] which was filmed and broadcast by the network later that year as an episode of the dramatic anthology series Teleplay.[4]
He wrote further screenplays for that series, as well as standalone television films, miniseries and radio dramas in the 1970s and 1980s, before moving into playwriting with The Noble Pursuit in 1991.[5] He concentrated mainly on playwriting thereafter, including a stint as playwright in residence at the Thousand Islands Playhouse.[6]
Works
[edit]Television
[edit]- Who Was the Lone Ranger? - 1967
- Amnesty - 1968
- Gunfighter - 1969
- The Contest Eaters - 1970
- The Krokonol Hustlers - 1970
- Moving Day - 1971
- Gunplay - 1971
- You and Me - 1971
- Bargain Basement - 1974
- A Gun, a Grand, a Girl - 1975
- No Way of Telling - 1976
- Breakdown - 1977
- The Man Who Wanted to Be Happy - 1977
- Shantymen of Cache Lake - 1977
- The War Is Over - 1978
- Scoop - 1978
- The Newcomers - 1979, one episode
- Empire, Inc. - 1983
- Love and Larceny - 1985
- Chasing Rainbows - 1988
- Grand Larceny - 1991
- Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy - 1999, one episode
- Must Be Santa - 1999
Radio
[edit]- Prop Man - 1968
- Dream House - 1974
- That Summer in Paris - 1978
Film
[edit]- U-Turn - 1973
- The Boy in Blue - 1986
- Obsessed - 1987
Plays
[edit]- Amnesty - 1971
- The Noble Pursuit - 1991
- ! Sgodsdogs ! - 1997
- Goodbye, Piccadilly - 2002
- Love & Larceny - 2004
- Rope's End - 2006
- Till It Hurts - 2010
- Somewhere Beyond the Sea - 2012
Awards
[edit]| Award | Date | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACTRA Awards | 1984 | Best Writing in a Television Drama | Empire, Inc. | Won | [7] |
| 1986 | Love and Larceny | Nominated | [8] | ||
| Genie Awards | 1989 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Obsessed with Robin Spry |
Nominated | [9] |
| Gemini Awards | 1993 | Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series | Grand Larceny | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Margaret Collier Award | Won | [10] |
References
[edit]- ^ Tom Shoebridge, "Douglas Bowie: Screenwriter at the crossroads". Cinema Canada, September 1988. pp. 21-23.
- ^ Patrick Langston, "Douglas Bowie talks stagecraft". Ottawa Citizen, April 4, 2015.
- ^ "Ottawa Man Wins Second Prize For Play". Ottawa Journal, February 3, 1967.
- ^ Frank Penn, "CBC programs trimmed". Ottawa Citizen, September 19, 1967.
- ^ "False start: Play doesn't live up to its beginning". Ottawa Citizen, September 3, 1991.
- ^ Greg Burliuk, "Thousand Islands Playhouse opens season of Canadian playwrights". Kingston Whig-Standard, April 11, 2002.
- ^ "Three ACTRA winners have local connections". Kingston Whig-Standard, April 4, 1984.
- ^ "ACTRA nominations for 15th annual Nellie Awards on April 2". Montreal Gazette, March 18, 1986.
- ^ "Genie Award Nominees 1989". Cinema Canada. February–March 1989. pp. 27–35.
- ^ Mike Boone, "Newsroom, Arrow scoop Geminis: Satiric sitcom about TV and a controversial series about doomed fighter pick up five apiece". Montreal Gazette, March 2, 1998.
External links
[edit]- 1944 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Canadian screenwriters
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
- Canadian male screenwriters
- Canadian television writers
- Canadian radio writers
- Carleton University alumni
- Queen's University at Kingston alumni
- Writers from Kingston, Ontario
- Writers from Ottawa
- Canadian Screen Award winning writers