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Graham Yost
Etobicoke, Greater Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Graham John Yost (born September 5, 1959) is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His best-known works are the films Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain and the TV series J…
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Graham John Yost (born September 5, 1959) is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His best-known works are the films Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain and the TV series Justified. In 2002, he created the widely acclaimed, yet short-lived drama series Boomtown. He has also written for the television series Herman's Head and Band of Brothers. He also created the short-lived NBC drama Raines. Yost teamed up with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow Boomtown writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries The Pacific. As of 2010, Yost is the creator and executive producer of the series Justified, which premiered on FX in March 2010. Born in Etobicoke, he is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost, the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies. He lives in California with his family.
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2024
Masters of the Air
TV show Co-Executive Producer
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2023
Justified: City Primeval
TV show Executive Producer
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2023
Silo
TV show Writer
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2022
Slow Horses
TV show Executive Producer
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2021
Elmore Leonard: "But Don't Try to Write"
Movie Self
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2019
The Grizzlies
Movie Writer
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2018
The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story
Movie Self
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2015
Sneaky Pete
TV show Writer
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2013
The Americans
TV show Executive Producer
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2011
Falling Skies
TV show Writer
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2010
Justified
TV show Writer
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2010
The Pacific
TV show Writer
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2008
John Adams
TV show Consulting Producer
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2007
Raines
TV show Writer
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2004
Summerland
TV show Writer
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2002
Boomtown
TV show Writer
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2002
Young Arthur
Movie Writer
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2001
The Last Castle
Movie Screenplay
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2001
Band of Brothers
TV show Writer
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2000
Mission to Mars
Movie Screenplay
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1998
L.A. Doctors
TV show Director
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1998
From the Earth to the Moon
TV show Writer
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1998
Hard Rain
Movie Screenplay
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1997
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Movie Characters
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1996
Broken Arrow
Movie Screenplay
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1994
Speed
Movie Writer
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1992
The Powers That Be
TV show Writer
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1991
Herman's Head
TV show Writer
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Legacy of Spies
TV show Executive Producer
