Fred Golan is an American
television writer
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
and
producer
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Occupations
*Producer (agriculture), a farm operator
*A stakeholder of economic production
*Film producer, supervises the making of films
**Executive producer, contributes to a film's budget and usually does not ...
. Golan is best known for his work on series such as ''
Justified'' and ''
Sneaky Pete
''Sneaky Pete'' is an American crime drama series created by David Shore and Bryan Cranston. The series follows Marius Josipović ( Giovanni Ribisi), a released convict who adopts the identity of his cellmate, Pete Murphy, to avoid his past lif ...
'', on which he served as a writer and executive producer.
Notable other work includes ''
Boomtown
A boomtown is a community that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economic growth, or that is started from scratch. The growth is normally attributed to the nearby discovery of a precious resource such as gold, silver, or oil, although ...
'', ''
Roswell
Roswell may refer to:
* Roswell incident
Places in the United States
* Roswell, Colorado, a former settlement now part of Colorado Springs
* Roswell, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta
* Roswell, Idaho
* Roswell, New Mexico, known for the purported 194 ...
'', and ''
''.
In 2013, Fred Golan was nominated by the
Mystery Writers of America
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The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday.
It presents the Edgar Award, ...
,
[Neimeyer, Mark. "Poe and Popular Culture", collected in ''The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe''. Cambridge University Press, 2002. . p. 206.] for an "Edgar Allan Poe Award" for writing Justified, Season 3 episode "Slaughterhouse."
Notable television work
''The Big Easy''
*''That Voodoo That You Do'' (1.11)
*''Long and Short'' (1.15) (with
Anne Kenney)
*''Vamps Like Us'' (1.20)
*''Heavenly Body'' (2.2)
*''A Perfect Day for Buffalo Fish'' (2.7)
''Roswell''
*''Harvest'' (2.6)
''Boomtown''
*''Crash'' (1.8)
*''Blackout'' (1.17)
*''Wannabe'' (2.3)
''Justified''
*''The Hammer'' (1.10) (with
Chris Provenzano
Chris Provenzano is an American film and television writer. He co-wrote the story and screenplay for the motion picture '' Get Low''. He served as a writer on the first season of ''Mad Men
''Mad Men'' is an American period drama television ...
)
*''Bulletville'' (1.13)
*''Bloody Harlan'' (2.13)
*''The Gunfighter'' (3.1)
*''Slaughterhouse'' (3.13)
References
External links
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American television writers
American male television writers
American television producers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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