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Graham Yost | |
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 Yost with his Peabody Award in 2011 | |
| Born | September 5, 1959 |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, television producer, television director, actor. |
| Years active | 1989–present |
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 and Silo .
Yost was born in Etobicoke in the Toronto metropolitan area. [1] He is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost, [2] the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies .
He graduated from the University of Toronto Schools and Trinity College at the University of Toronto.
Yost wrote for the TV sitcom Herman's Head and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers . In 2002, he created the television drama series Boomtown . He created the short-lived NBC drama Raines (2007). Yost teamed 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 . Yost is the creator and executive producer of the FX series Justified . He was an executive producer on the FX show The Americans . In 2016, he took over as head writer and executive producer of the Amazon Studios series Sneaky Pete . In May 2014, it was reported that Yost would develop a project for WGN America. Based on the Alex Kershaw book Avenue of Spies, it would be set in Nazi-occupied Paris at the start of World War II. [3]
Yost won Emmy Awards for his involvement in the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and The Pacific, which was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award. [4] He also won a Golden Globe for his work on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, for which he was one of the writers. [5]
Film writer
TV series
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Creator | Producer | Notes |
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| 1989-1991 | Hey Dude | No | Yes | No | No | 13 episodes |
| 1991 | Herman's Head | No | Yes | No | No | Episode "The Last Boy Scout" |
| 1992-1993 | The Powers That Be | No | Yes | No | No | 4 episodes |
| 1998 | From the Earth to the Moon | Yes | Yes | No | Supervising | Wrote 2 episodes; Directed episode "Spider" |
| L.A. Doctors | Yes | No | No | No | Episode "Whither Thou Goest" | |
| 2001 | Band of Brothers | No | Yes | No | No | 2 episodes |
| 2002-2003 | Boomtown | Yes | Yes | Yes | Executive | Wrote 6 episodes |
| 2004 | Summerland | No | Yes | No | No | Episode "Skipping School" |
| 2007 | Raines | No | Yes | Yes | Executive | Wrote episode "Pilot" |
| 2010 | The Pacific | Yes | Yes | No | Executive | Wrote and directed episode "Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika" |
| 2010-2015 | Justified | No | Yes | Yes | Executive | Wrote 12 episodes |
| 2011 | Falling Skies | No | Yes | No | Executive | Wrote episode "The Armory" |
| 2013-2018 | The Americans | No | No | No | Executive | |
| 2015-2018 | Sneaky Pete | No | Yes | No | Executive | Wrote 7 episodes |
| 2022–present | Slow Horses | No | No | No | Executive | |
| 2023–present | Silo | No | Yes | Yes | Executive | Wrote 2 episodes |
| 2023 | Justified: City Primeval | No | No | No | Executive | |
| 2024 | Masters of the Air | No | No | No | Co-Executive |
TV movies
| Year | Title | Writer | Executive Producer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Young Arthur | Yes | Yes |
| 2006 | Sixty Minute Man | Yes | Yes |
| 2014 | Wild Blue | No | Yes |
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The sixth and final season of the American neo-Western television series Justified premiered on January 20, 2015, on FX, and concluded on April 14, 2015, consisting of 13 episodes. The series was developed by Graham Yost based on Elmore Leonard's novels Pronto and Riding the Rap and his short story "Fire in the Hole". Its main character is Raylan Givens, a deputy U.S. Marshal. Timothy Olyphant portrays Givens, a tough federal lawman, enforcing his own brand of justice in his Kentucky hometown. The series is set in the city of Lexington, Kentucky, and the hill country of eastern Kentucky, specifically in and around Harlan. The sixth season was released on DVD and Blu-ray in region 1 on June 2, 2015.
"Slaughterhouse" is the thirteenth episode and season finale of the third season of the American Neo-Western television series Justified. It is the 39th overall episode of the series and was written by executive producer Fred Golan from a story by series developer Graham Yost and directed by Dean Parisot. It originally aired on FX on April 10, 2012.
"Thick as Mud" is the fifth episode of the third season of the American Neo-Western television series Justified. It is the 31st overall episode of the series and was written by story editor Jon Worley and co-producer Benjamin Cavell from a story by Worley and executive producer Elmore Leonard and directed by Adam Arkin. It originally aired on FX on February 14, 2012.
"The Man Behind the Curtain" is the seventh episode of the third season of the American Neo-Western television series Justified. It is the 33rd overall episode of the series and was written by story editor Ryan Farley and directed by Peter Werner. It originally aired on FX on February 28, 2012.
"Hole in the Wall" is the first episode of the fourth season of the American Neo-Western television series Justified. It is the 40th overall episode of the series and was written by series developer Graham Yost and directed by executive producer Michael Dinner. It originally aired on FX on January 8, 2013.
"Truth and Consequences" is the third episode of the fourth season of the American Neo-Western television series Justified. It is the 42nd overall episode of the series and was written by producer Benjamin Cavell and directed by Jon Avnet. It originally aired on FX on January 22, 2013.
"Money Trap" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of the American Neo-Western television series Justified. It is the 46th overall episode of the series and was written by producer Chris Provenzano from a story by Provenzano and executive producer Elmore Leonard and directed by co-executive producer Don Kurt. It originally aired on FX on February 19, 2013.
"Ghosts" is the thirteenth episode and season finale of the fourth season of the American Neo-Western television series Justified. It is the 52nd overall episode of the series and was written by executive producer Fred Golan and producer Benjamin Cavell and directed by Bill Johnson. It originally aired on FX on April 2, 2013.
"A Murder of Crowes" is the first episode of the fifth season of the American Neo-Western television series Justified. It is the 53rd overall episode of the series and was written by series developer Graham Yost and executive producer Fred Golan and directed by executive producer Michael Dinner. It originally aired on FX on January 7, 2014.
"Burned" is the ninth episode of the sixth season of the American Neo-Western television series Justified. It is the 74th overall episode of the series and was written by executive producer Dave Andron, co-producer Leonard Chang and Jenny DeArmitt and directed by executive producer Don Kurt. It originally aired on FX on March 17, 2015.
"The Promise" is the series finale of the American Neo-Western television series Justified. It is the 13th episode of the sixth season and is the 78th overall episode of the series. The episode was written by series developer Graham Yost and executive producers Fred Golan, Dave Andron and Benjamin Cavell and directed by Adam Arkin. It originally aired on FX on April 14, 2015.
"Part Four" is the fourth episode of the American war drama miniseries The Pacific. The episode was written by co-producer Robert Schenkkan and co-executive producer Graham Yost, and directed by Yost. It originally aired on HBO on April 4, 2010.
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