Elliot L. Sims

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Elliot L. Sims was a Canadian film and television screenwriter. He is most noted for the 1989 film Cold Comfort , for which he and Richard Beattie won the Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990. [1]

Sims' other credits included episodes of It's a Man's World , The Littlest Hobo and E.N.G. .

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References

  1. John Griffin, "Jesus de Montreal sweeps Genies". Montreal Gazette , March 21, 1990.