Douglas Bowie (born 1944) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter from Kingston, Ontario.Tom Shoebridge, "Douglas Bowie: Screenwriter at the crossroads". Cinema Canada, September 1988. pp. 21-23.
Born and raised in Ottawa, he attended Queen's University and Carleton University, and worked in advertising copywriting in his early career.Patrick Langston, "Douglas Bowie talks stagecraft". Ottawa Citizen, April 4, 2015. He won second prize in a television writing contest sponsored by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1967 for Who Was the Lone Ranger?,"Ottawa Man Wins Second Prize For Play". Ottawa Journal, February 3, 1967. which was filmed and broadcast by the network later that year as an episode of the dramatic anthology series Teleplay.Frank Penn, "CBC programs trimmed". Ottawa Citizen, September 19, 1967.
He wrote further screenplays for that series, as well as standalone television films, miniseries and radio dramas in the 1970s and 1980s, before moving into playwriting with The Noble Pursuit in 1991."False start: Play doesn't live up to its beginning". Ottawa Citizen, September 3, 1991. He concentrated mainly on playwriting thereafter, including a stint as playwright in residence at the Thousand Islands Playhouse.Greg Burliuk, "Thousand Islands Playhouse opens season of Canadian playwrights". Kingston Whig-Standard, April 11, 2002.
Works Television
Radio Prop Man - 1968 Dream House - 1974 That Summer in Paris - 1978
Film U-Turn - 1973 The Boy in Blue - 1986 Obsessed - 1987
Plays Amnesty - 1971 The Noble Pursuit - 1991 ! Sgodsdogs ! - 1997 Goodbye, Piccadilly - 2002 Love & Larceny - 2004 Rope's End - 2006 Till It Hurts - 2010 Somewhere Beyond the Sea - 2012
Awards
Award Date Category Recipient Result ACTRA Awards 1984 Best Writing in a Television Drama Empire, Inc. "Three ACTRA winners have local connections". Kingston Whig-Standard, April 4, 1984. 1986 Love and Larceny "ACTRA nominations for 15th annual Nellie Awards on April 2". Montreal Gazette, March 18, 1986. Genie Awards 1989 Best Adapted Screenplay Obsessedwith Robin Spry Gemini Awards 1993 Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series Grand Larceny 1998 Margaret Collier Award Mike Boone, "Newsroom, Arrow scoop Geminis: Satiric sitcom about TV and a controversial series about doomed fighter pick up five apiece". Montreal Gazette, March 2, 1998.
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