Tom Fontana
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Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, playwright, producer |
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Tom Fontana (born September 12, 1951) is an American screenwriter, writer, and television producer. Fontana worked on NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street and created HBO's Oz.[1]
Early life and education
Fontana was born on the west side of
Career
Television
Having started out as a playwright, Fontana was hired by
Fontana wrote the HBO film
Fontana has received three
Articles
Fontana has written articles for such periodicals as The New York Times, TV Guide, and Esquire, and has taught at Columbia, Syracuse, Rutgers, and the State University College at Buffalo, his alma mater, from which he received the Distinguished Alumni Award and an honorary Doctorate of Letters.
Plays
Fontana has had numerous plays produced in New York City, where he lives, and at San Francisco's
Personal life
Fontana's sister is a nun. He lives in New York City's West Village in a building that was formerly a branch of the New York Public Library. The book-lined, two-story main reading room is now a living room where he often hosts fund raisers for arts and civil-rights organizations.
Fontana was married to actress Sagan Lewis for 12 years until their divorce in 1993.[1] Sagan and Fontana remarried on July 10, 2015, and remained together until her death on August 7, 2016.[1][4]
Fontana has a tattoo of the Oz logo on his upper right arm, which he is shown receiving in the opening credits of the series.[5]
Fontana does not own or use a computer, and writes all of his scripts longhand on a yellow legal pad.[6]
Membership
He is a member of the
Detective
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | |
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Writer | Producer | |||
1985 | The Fourth Wise Man | Yes | Yes | |
1993 | New Year | Yes | Yes | |
1996 | The Prosecutors | Yes | Yes | |
1997 | Firehouse | Yes | Yes | |
2000 | Homicide: The Movie | Yes | Yes | |
2004 | Judas | Yes | Yes | |
2004 | Strip Search | Yes | Yes |
Television
Year[8] | Title | Network | Credited as | Notes | ||
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Creator | Writer | Producer | ||||
1982-1988 | St. Elsewhere | NBC | No | Yes | Yes | |
1988-1999 | Tattingers | NBC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Co-created with Bruce Paltrow and John Masius |
1992 | Home Fires | NBC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Co-created alongside Bruce Paltrow and John Tinker |
1993-1999 | Homicide: Life on the Street | NBC | No | Yes | Yes | Showrunner |
1997-2003 | Oz | HBO | Yes | Yes | Yes | Creator/Showrunner |
2000 | The Beat | UPN | Yes | Yes | Yes | Creator/Showrunner |
2004 | The Jury | Fox | Yes | Yes | Yes | Co-created alongside Barry Levinson and James Yoshimura/Showrunner |
2009 | The Philanthropist | NBC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Co-created alongside Charlie Corbin and Jim Juvonen /Showrunner |
2012-2013 | Copper | BBC America | Yes | Yes | Yes | Co-created with Will Rokos/Showrunner |
2011-2014 | Borgia | Canal+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Creator/Showrunner |
2019-2022 | City on a Hill | Showtime | No | No | Yes | Showrunner |
2024 | Monsieur Spade[9] | AMC & Canal+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Co-creator/Co-showrunner with Scott Frank |
References
- ^ a b c Petski, Denise (August 6, 2016). "Sagan Lewis Dies: Actress & Wife Of Emmy-Winner Tom Fontana Was 63". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
- The Tidings. Archived from the originalon May 2, 2005. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
- ^ "Episode 80: The Twelve Days of Crime Story – Day 8: Tom Fontana, Homicide and Oz". December 30, 2019.
- user-generated source]
- ^ "Twelve Astonishing Facts about "Oz," HBO's Original Crime Drama". Paley Matters. October 13, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
- ^ "Email".
- Archive of American Television. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation. April 21, 2013. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- sweeps.
- ^ "AMC/AMC+ GIVE FIRST-LOOK AT CLIVE OWEN IN MONSIEUR SPADE, LIMITED SERIES DEBUTS EARLY 2024". September 8, 2023. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
External links
- Official Website
- New York Magazine Tom Fontana profile and The Jury preview
- Board of Advisors, The Buffalo Film Festival, Buffalo, NY, United States
- Tom Fontana interview at Archive of American Television
- Tom Fontana’s ‘Borgia’ at the Hollywood Reporter
- Deauville 2011: Tom Fontana Discusses 'Borgia's' Move to Netflix, Plans for Cable (Q&A) at the Hollywood Reporter
- Tom Fontana at IMDb