Gilroy, Tony

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GILROY, Tony

PERSONAL

Born in New York, NY; son of Frank D. Gilroy (a playwright, screenwriter, and director); brother of John Gilroy (a film editor) and Dan Gilroy (a writer and actor).

Addresses: Agent—David O'Connor, Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career: Writer and producer.

Awards, Honors: Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination, best motion picture, Mystery Writers of America, 1996, for Dolores Claiborne; Saturn Award nomination (with Jonathan Lemkin), best writer, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, 1998, for The Devil's Advocate; Apex Award nomination, outstanding screenplay adaptation, action/mystery/thriller category, 2004, Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination (with Robert Ludlum), best motion picture screenplay, 2005, and USC Scripter Award nomination (with Ludlum), 2005, all for The Bourne Supremacy.

CREDITS

Film Work; Executive Producer:

Bait (also known as Piege), Warner Bros., 2000.

Proof of Life, Warner Bros., 2000.

Television Work; Pilots:

Co-executive producer, The Gray Area, CBS, 1994.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

The Cutting Edge, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1992.

Dolores Claiborne (based on work by Stephen King), Columbia, 1995.

Extreme Measures, Columbia, 1996.

The Devil's Advocate (also known as Im auftrag des teufels), Warner Bros., 1997.

Armageddon (adaptation), Buena Vista/Touchstone, 1998.

Bait (also known as Piege), Warner Bros., 2000.

Proof of Life, Warner Bros., 2000.

The Bourne Identity (also known as Die Bourne identitaet; based on the novel by Robert Ludlum), Universal, 2002.

Bad Boys II, Sony Pictures Releasing, 2003.

The Bourne Supremacy (also known as Die Bourne verschwoerung; based on the novel by Ludlum), Universal, 2004.

Television Scripts:

For Better and for Worse (also known as R.S.V.P.), 1993.

The Gray Area (pilot), CBS, 1994.

OTHER SOURCES

Electronic:

Writers Guild of America Web Site, http://www.wga.org, September 1, 2005.