Lawrence Kaplow

Last updated January 07, 2026

Lawrence "Larry" Kaplow is an American television writer and producer most notable for his work on the FOX series House . He won the 2005 Writers Guild of America Award for "Outstanding Television Script, Episodic Drama" for the House episode "Autopsy".

In addition to House, Kaplow has written for Family Law , Hack , and K-Ville . He left House after the third season for a development deal with 20th Century Fox, but returned the following year. In 2011–2012, Kaplow was a writer/producer on the medical drama Body of Proof . He is now a co-executive producer for the television series "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit".

House episodes as writer

1.02 - "Paternity" (2004)
1.11 - "Detox", with Thomas L. Moran (2005)
1.14 - "Control" (2005)
1.19 - "Kids", with Thomas L. Moran (2005)
1.22 - "Honeymoon", with John Mankiewicz (2005)
2.02 - "Autopsy" (2005)
2.12 - "Distractions" (2006)
2.23 - "Who's Your Daddy?", with John Mankiewicz (teleplay) (2006)
2.24 - "No Reason" (story) (2006)
3.01 - "Meaning", (story and teleplay) with David Shore (2006)
3.02 - "Cane and Able" (story) (2006)
3.15 - "Half-Wit" (2007)
3.24 - "Human Error" with Thomas L. Moran (2007)
5.02 - "Not Cancer" with David Shore (2008)
5.13 - "Big Baby" with David Foster (2009)
5.23 - "Under My Skin" with Pamela Davis (2009)
6.06 - "Brave Heart" (2009)
6.16 - "Black Hole" (2010)
7.07 - "A Pox on Our House" (2010)
7.16 - "Out of the Chute" with Thomas L. Moran (2011)

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v t e Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama
1960s	William Spier for "The Unhired Assassin" (1960) Barry Trivers for "The Fault in Our Stars" (1961) Howard A. Rodman and Kenneth M. Rosen for "Today the Man Who Kills The Ants is Coming" (1962) Lawrence B. Marcus for "Man Out of Time" (1963) Arnold Perl for "Who Do You Kill?" (1964) John D. F. Black for "With a Hammer in His Hand, Lord, Lord!" (1965) David Ellis for "No Justice for the Judge" (1966) Harlan Ellison for "The City on the Edge of Forever" (1967) Robert Lewin for "To Kill a Madman" (1968) Robert Lewin for "An Elephant in a Cigar Box" (1969)
1970s	David W. Rintels for "A Continual Roar of Musketry" (1970) Herb Bermann & Thomas Y. Drake & Jerrold Freedman & Bo May for "Par for the Course" (1971) Herman Miller for "King of the Mountain" (1972) Harlan Ellison for "Phoenix Without Ashes" (1973) Jim Byrnes for "Thirty a Month and Found" (1974) Stephen Kandel & Arthur Ross for "Prior Consent" (1975) Loring Mandel for "Crossing Fox River" (1976) Mark Rodgers for "Pressure Point" (1977) Seth Freeman for "Prisoner" (1978) Leon Tokatyan for "Vet" (1979)
1980s	Stephen J. Cannell for "Tenspeed and Brown Shoe" (1980) Steven Bochco & Michael Kozoll for "Hill Street Station" (1981) Michael Wagner for "The World According to Freedom" (1982) David Milch for "Trial By Fury" (1983) Steven Bochco & Mark Frost & Karen Hall & Jeff Lewis & David Milch & Michael Wagner for "Grace Under Pressure" (1984) Georgia Jeffries for "An Unusual Occurrence" / Anthony Yerkovich for "Brother's Keeper" (1985) Debra Frank & Carl Sautter for "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" / Tom Fontana & John Masius & Bruce Paltrow for "Remembrance of Things Past" (1986) Georgia Jeffries for "Turn, Turn, Turn" / Debra Frank & Carl Sautter for "It's a Wonderful Job" (1987) Susan Shilliday for "Therapy" / Marshall Herskovitz & Edward Zwick for "Pilot" (thirtysomething) (1988) Karl Schaefer for "Rolling" (1989)
1990s	John Sacret Young for "Souvenirs" (1990) Racelle Rosett Schaefer for "Photo Opportunity" (1991) Henry Bromell for "Amazing Grace" (1992) Tom Fontana & Frank Pugliese for "The Night of the Dead Living" (1993) Tom Fontana & David Mills & David Simon for "Bop Gun" (1994) Lance Gentile for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995) Bill Clark & Theresa Rebeck for "Girl Talk" (1996) René Balcer & Richard Sweren for "Entrapment" (1997) Bill Cain for "Proofs for the Existence Of God" (1998) Jason Cahill for "Meadowlands" (1999)
2000s	Rick Cleveland and Aaron Sorkin for "In Excelsis Deo" (2000) Tim Van Patten and Terence Winter for "Pine Barrens" (2001) Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin for "Pilot" (The Education of Max Bickford) (2002) Evan Katz for "Day 2: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m." (2003) Debora Cahn for "The Supremes" (2004) Lawrence Kaplow for "Autopsy" (2005) Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer for "Pilot" (Big Love) (2006) Terence Winter for "The Second Coming" (2007) Vince Gilligan for "Pilot" (Breaking Bad) (2008) David Foster, Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, and David Shore for "Broken" (2009)
2010s	Erin Levy for "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" (2010) Vince Gilligan for "Box Cutter" / Henry Bromell for "The Good Soldier" (2011) Semi Chellas & Matthew Weiner for "The Other Woman" (2012) Gennifer Hutchison for "Confessions" (2013) Robert King & Michelle King for "The Last Call" (2014) Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould for "Uno" (2015) Vera Herbert for "The Trip" (2016) Gordon Smith for "Chicanery" (2017) Alex Gansa for "Paean to the People" (2018) Will Tracy for "Tern Haven" (2019)
2020s	Miki Johnson for "Fire Pink" (2020) Tony Roche and Susan Soon He Stanton for "Retired Janitors of Idaho" (2021) Thomas Schnauz for "Plan and Execution" (2022) Georgia Pritchett and Will Arbery for "Living+" (2023) Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks for "Anjin" (2024)

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