{{Short description|Canadian playwright and screenwriter}} '''Douglas Bowie''' (born 1944) is a [[Canada|Canadian]] playwright and screenwriter from [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]], [[Ontario]].<ref>Tom Shoebridge, "Douglas Bowie: Screenwriter at the crossroads". ''[[Cinema Canada]]'', September 1988. pp. 21-23.</ref>
Born and raised in [[Ottawa]], he attended [[Queen's University (Kingston)|Queen's University]] and [[Carleton University]], and worked in advertising copywriting in his early career.<ref>Patrick Langston, "Douglas Bowie talks stagecraft". ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'', April 4, 2015.</ref> He won second prize in a television writing contest sponsored by the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] in 1967 for ''Who Was the Lone Ranger?'',<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ottawa-journal/168288549/ "Ottawa Man Wins Second Prize For Play"]. ''[[Ottawa Journal]]'', February 3, 1967.</ref> which was filmed and broadcast by the network later that year as an episode of the dramatic anthology series ''Teleplay''.<ref>Frank Penn, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ottawa-citizen/168288899/ "CBC programs trimmed"]. ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'', September 19, 1967.</ref>
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.<ref>"False start: Play doesn't live up to its beginning". ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'', September 3, 1991.</ref> He concentrated mainly on playwriting thereafter, including a stint as playwright in residence at the [[Thousand Islands Playhouse]].<ref>Greg Burliuk, "Thousand Islands Playhouse opens season of Canadian playwrights". ''[[Kingston Whig-Standard]]'', April 11, 2002.</ref>
==Works== ===Television=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *''Who Was the Lone Ranger?'' - 1967 *''Amnesty'' - 1968 *''Gunfighter'' - 1969 *''The Contest Eaters'' - 1970 *''The Krokonol Hustlers'' - 1970 *''Moving Day'' - 1971 *''Gunplay'' - 1971 *''You and Me'' - 1971 *''Bargain Basement'' - 1974 *''A Gun, a Grand, a Girl'' - 1975 *''No Way of Telling'' - 1976 *''Breakdown'' - 1977 *''The Man Who Wanted to Be Happy'' - 1977 *''Shantymen of Cache Lake'' - 1977 *''The War Is Over'' - 1978 *''[[For the Record (Canadian TV series)|Scoop]]'' - 1978 *''[[The Newcomers (miniseries)|The Newcomers]]'' - 1979, one episode *''[[Empire, Inc.]]'' - 1983 *''[[Love and Larceny (1985 film)|Love and Larceny]]'' - 1985 *''[[Chasing Rainbows (TV series)|Chasing Rainbows]]'' - 1988 *''Grand Larceny'' - 1991 *''[[Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy]]'' - 1999, one episode *''[[Must Be Santa (film)|Must Be Santa]]'' - 1999 }}
===Radio=== *''Prop Man'' - 1968 *''Dream House'' - 1974 *''That Summer in Paris'' - 1978
===Film=== *''[[U-Turn (1973 film)|U-Turn]]'' - 1973 *''[[The Boy in Blue (1986 film)|The Boy in Blue]]'' - 1986 *''[[Obsessed (1987 film)|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==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" ! Award ! Date ! Category ! Recipient ! Result ! {{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}} |- | rowspan=2| [[ACTRA Awards]] | [[13th ACTRA Awards|1984]] | rowspan=2| Best Writing in a Television Drama | ''[[Empire, Inc.]]'' | {{won}} | <ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105743995/ "Three ACTRA winners have local connections"]. ''[[Kingston Whig-Standard]]'', April 4, 1984.</ref> |- | [[15th ACTRA Awards|1986]] | ''[[Love and Larceny (1985 film)|Love and Larceny]]'' | {{nom}} | <ref>"ACTRA nominations for 15th annual Nellie Awards on April 2". ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', March 18, 1986.</ref> |- | [[Genie Awards]] | [[10th Genie Awards|1989]] | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]] | ''[[Obsessed (1987 film)|Obsessed]]''<br>with [[Robin Spry]] | {{nom}} | <ref>{{cite magazine |date=February–March 1989 |title=Genie Award Nominees 1989 |magazine=[[Cinema Canada]] |pages=27–35}}</ref> |- | rowspan=2| [[Gemini Awards]] | [[7th Gemini Awards|1993]] | Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series | ''Grand Larceny'' | {{nom}} | |- | [[12th Gemini Awards|1998]] | [[Margaret Collier Award]] | | {{won}} | <ref>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.</ref> |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{imdb name|0101147}} *{{official|http://www.douglasbowie.ca/}}
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