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BRANCATO, John

(John D. Brancato)

PERSONAL

Full name, John D. Brancato. Education: Studied philosophy at Harvard University.

Addresses: Agent—William Morris Agency, 151 El Camino Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career: Writer, producer, and actor. Worked as writer, editor, and cartoonist for magazines and newspapers, prior to 1985; vice president and editor of Harvard Lampoon. Also known as J. D. Brancato.

CREDITS

Television Work; Series:

Creator, The Net, USA Network, 1998–1999.

(As John D. Brancato) Creator and executive producer, The Others, NBC, 2000.

Television Work; Movies:

Associate producer, Flight of Black Angel, Showtime, 1991.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Clerk, Flight of Black Angel, Showtime, 1991.

Film Work:

Coproducer, The Game, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, 1997.

Film Appearances:

Appeared in Pirates, Treasures, and the Shoulders of Giants: Copyright in the Digital Age (documentary).

RECORDINGS

Video Appearances; As John D. Brancato:

Effete patron of Grand Guignol, Dark Romances Vol. 1, Film Threat Video/Salt City Home Video, 1990.

Inside "The Net," Columbia/TriStar Home Video, 2002.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

(As John D. Brancato) Mindwarp, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1990.

(As John D. Brancato) Femme Fatale (also known as Fatal Woman), Republic, 1991.

(And story) Interceptor, Trimark Pictures, 1992.

Into the Sun, Trimark Pictures, 1992.

The Net, Columbia, 1995.

The Game, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, 1997.

Idle Hands, Sony Pictures Releasing, 1999.

(And story) Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (also known as T3 and Terminator 3—Rebellion der Maschinen), Warner Bros., 2003.

(And story) Catwoman, Warner Bros., 2004.

Teleplays; Episodic; With Michael Ferris:

"Mora," The Others, NBC, 2000.

"Unnamed," The Others, NBC, 2000.

Also coauthor of "The Demiurge," an episode of Aeon Flux (animated); and writer for Married … with Children, Fox.

Teleplays; Pilots:

Premiere episode, Sunset Beat, ABC, 1990.

(With Michael Ferris) The Others, NBC, 2000.

OTHER SOURCES

Electronic:

Comics Continuum, http://www.comicscontinuum.com, July 22, 2004.

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