Graham Yost
- Writing
- September 5, 1959 · Etobicoke, Greater Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Masters of the Air · Co-Executive Producer
- Justified: City Primeval · Executive producer
- Silo · Executive producer, Writer
- Slow Horses · Executive producer
- Elmore Leonard: "But Don't Try to Write" · Self
- The Grizzlies · Writer, Story
- The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story · Self
- Sneaky Pete · Writer, Story
- The Americans · Executive producer
- Falling Skies · Writer, Executive producer
- Justified · Writer, Executive producer
- The Pacific · Director, Writer
- John Adams · Consulting Producer
- Raines · Producer, Writer
- Summerland · Writer
- Boomtown · Producer, Writer
- Young Arthur · Writer
- The Last Castle · Screenplay
- Band of Brothers · Writer
- Mission to Mars · Screenplay
- L.A. Doctors · Director
- From the Earth to the Moon · Writer, Director
- Hard Rain · Screenplay
- Speed 2: Cruise Control · Characters
- Broken Arrow · Screenplay
- Speed · Writer
- The Powers That Be · Writer
- Herman's Head · Writer
- Legacy of Spies · Executive producer