T. S. Cook
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Born | Thomas Steven Cook (1947-08-25)August 25, 1947 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
Died | January 5, 2013(2013-01-05) (aged 65) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, producer |
Years active | 1975–2008 |
Spouse | Marie Monique de Varennes |
Thomas Steven "T. S." Cook (August 25, 1947 – January 5, 2013) was an American screenwriter and producer, who wrote The China Syndrome (1979) with Mike Gray and James Bridges, which garnered him Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations.[1]
Early life
Thomas Steven Cook was born in Cleveland to Horace William, a business executive, and Betty Marion Cook (née Thompson), a homemaker. He began working as a technical editor in 1974 at the engineering and manufacturing company ITT Gilfillan in Panorama City, California. In 1984, Cook was hired as a lecturer at the University of Nevada in 1984.[2]
Career
As a writer, Cook has written several television movies. He got his first writing credit with the 1979 thriller film The China Syndrome, which earned him Oscar and Golden Globe-nominations for Best Screenplay. He continued his career by writing episodes of shows, such as Project UFO (1978), and Airwolf (1984). For Nightbreaker (1989), Cook received Writers Guild of America Award. He received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Miniseries or a Special, sharing with Paris Qualles, Trey Ellis, Ron Hutchinson, and Robert Williams for The Tuskegee Airmen (1995). By the 2000s, he wrote The Hive (2008), and NYC: Tornado Terror (2008), both of them which aired on Syfy.
Personal life
Cook was married to homemaker and writer Marie Monique de Varennes. He died from complications of cancer on January 5, 2013.
Filmography
Screenwriter
- Baretta (1975)
- The Paper Chase (1978)
- Project UFO (1978)
- The China Syndrome (1979)
- Scared Straight! Another Story (1980) (TV)
- We're Fighting Back (1981) (TV)
- Red Flag: The Ultimate Game (1984) (TV)
- Attack on Fear (1984) (TV)
- Airwolf (1984)
- Out of the Darkness (1985) (TV)
- Nightbreaker (1989) (TV)
- High Desert Kill (1989) (TV)
- In the Line of Duty: Street War (1992) (TV)
- The Switch (1993) (TV)
- Texas Justice (1995) (TV)
- The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) (TV)
- Forgotten Sins (1996) (TV)
- One Step Too Far (1998) (TV)
- High Noon (2000) (TV)
- Lucy (2003) (TV)
- The Hive (2008) (TV)
- NYC: Tornado Terror (2008) (TV)
References
External links
- T. S. Cook at IMDb
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(1969–1983)
- William Goldman (1969)
- Francis Ford Coppola & Edmund H. North (1970)
- Penelope Gilliatt (1971)
- Jeremy Larner (1972)
- Steve Shagan (1973)
- Robert Towne (1974)
- Frank Pierson (1975)
- Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
- Arthur Laurents (1977)
- Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones & Waldo Salt (1978)
- Mike Gray, T. S. Cook & James Bridges (1979)
- Bo Goldman (1980)
- Warren Beatty & Trevor Griffiths (1981)
- Melissa Mathison (1982)
- Horton Foote (1983)
(1969–1983)
- Paul Mazursky & Larry Tucker (1969)
- Neil Simon (1970)
- Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
- Peter Bogdanovich, Buck Henry, David Newman & Robert Benton (1972)
- Melvin Frank & Jack Rose (1973)
- Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor & Alan Uger (1974)
- Robert Towne & Warren Beatty (1975)
- Bill Lancaster (1976)
- Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman (1977)
- Larry Gelbart & Sheldon Keller (1978)
- Steve Tesich (1979)
- Nancy Meyers, Harvey Miller & Charles Shyer (1980)
- Steve Gordon (1981)
- Don McGuire, Larry Gelbart & Murray Schisgal (1982)
- Lawrence Kasdan & Barbara Benedek (1983)
(1984–present)
- Woody Allen (1984)
- William Kelley & Earl W. Wallace (1985)
- Woody Allen (1986)
- John Patrick Shanley (1987)
- Ron Shelton (1988)
- Woody Allen (1989)
- Barry Levinson (1990)
- Callie Khouri (1991)
- Neil Jordan (1992)
- Jane Campion (1993)
- Richard Curtis (1994)
- Randall Wallace (1995)
- Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (1996)
- James L. Brooks & Mark Andrus (1997)
- Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard (1998)
- Alan Ball (1999)
- Kenneth Lonergan (2000)
- Julian Fellowes (2001)
- Michael Moore (2002)
- Sofia Coppola (2003)
- Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry, & Charlie Kaufman (2004)
- Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco (2005)
- Michael Arndt (2006)
- Diablo Cody (2007)
- Dustin Lance Black (2008)
- Mark Boal (2009)
- Christopher Nolan (2010)
- Woody Allen (2011)
- Mark Boal (2012)
- Spike Jonze (2013)
- Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness (2014)
- Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer (2015)
- Barry Jenkins & Tarell Alvin McCraney (2016)
- Jordan Peele (2017)
- Bo Burnham (2018)
- Bong Joon-ho & Han Jin-won (2019)
- Emerald Fennell (2020)
- Adam McKay & David Sirota (2021)
- Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
- David Hemingson (2023)