John McGreevey
John McGreevey ( born December 21, 1922 in Muncie, Indiana, † November 24, 2010 in Laguna Hills, California ) was an American screenwriter.
Life
John McGreevey was born in Muncie, Indiana, but grew up in Logansport, Indiana. At the age of five, he wrote his first play, which he presented to the backyard of the family. His childhood was marked by money problems and alcohol illness of his father, a veteran of the First World War, so he, after the parents had separated for a time lived for a while in Fort Wayne with his father. The rest of his childhood he lived with James and Katherine McGourty, his uncle and his aunt in Logansport. After he attended St. Vincent School and Lincoln Junior High School, he made 1938 graduated from Logansport High School. During his high school years he was not only editor of the student newspaper, The Magpie, he also wrote plays, which he sold in order to afford the gas money for the Debatierteam school can so that they could participate in competitions. Subsequently, he studied English and Drama at Indiana University Bloomington. During his time at university he continued to focus on writing and learned actors like Charles Aidman and Andrew Duggan know. There were also sample images from the year 1940 for MGM, but McGreevy it not moved to Hollywood, but to Arizona.
After six years older Nota Scholl married, who worked at the theater of the University as a secretary, he moved with her to Phoenix, where he got a job as a clerk at the local radio station KTAR. This, however, rather of necessity, because although it was lucky and was patterned as a soldier of the Second World War as unfit, but because he found another job in another city. Together played with his wife and he wrote there the weekly show " Arizona Adventures " before he moved to Connecticut in 1952 to get the opportunity to be screenwriter for television. But although he was several pieces and books for radio and television to sell, he got no job, so he followed the call of a friend to Los Angeles, where he signed a six-month contract with MCA. About the Artists Agency, William Morris Agency, and in particular his agent Sylvia Hirsch, he was given the opportunity to series such as Zane Grey Theater, Lassie, collaborate My Three Sons and Family Affair. After his last major series commitment The Waltons, where he was allowed to process multiple experiences of his childhood, McGreevey focused mainly on the writing of television films, such as Judy Garland - Apprenticeship of a Hollywood star, with the wind to the west and The Patty Duke Story.
2003 heard McGreevy on writing and focused on spending time with his three children, including the actor and screenwriter Michael McGreevey, and his seven grandchildren time.