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Graham Yost

Writer, Producer, Director, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn September 5, 1959 (65 years)
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. In 2002, he created the widely acclaimed, yet short-lived drama series Boomtown.

He has also written for the television series Herman's Head and Band of Brothers. He also created the short-lived NBC drama Raines. Yost teamed up 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. As of 2010, Yost is the creator and executive producer of the series Justified, which premiered on FX in March 2010.

Born in Etobicoke, he is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost, the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies. He lives in California with his family.

Known For

  • Speed
  • Band of Brothers
  • Broken Arrow
  • The Pacific
  • Silo
  • Justified
  • Speed 2: Cruise Control
  • The Last Castle
  • Hard Rain
  • Slow Horses
  • The Americans (2013)
  • Mission to Mars
  • Sneaky Pete
  • Falling Skies
  • Masters of the Air
  • Justified: City Primeval
  • From the Earth to the Moon

Filmography

2023
Silo (TV Series)
2015
Sneaky Pete (TV Series)
2011
Falling Skies (TV Series)
2010
Justified (TV Series)
2010
The Pacific (TV Series)
2007
Raines (TV Series)
2004
Summerland (TV Series)
2002
Boomtown (TV Series)
2001
The Last Castle · as Screenplay
2001
Band of Brothers (TV Series)
2000
Mission to Mars · as Screenplay
1998
1998
Hard Rain · as Screenplay
1996
Broken Arrow · as Screenplay
1994
1992
The Powers That Be (TV Series)
1991
Herman's Head (TV Series)

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