John Kaye (screenwriter)

John Kaye (born August 31, 1941) is an American screenwriter, novelist and playwright. His feature credits as a screenwriter include American Hot Wax, Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins and Where the Buffalo Roam. He also directed the feature film Forever Lulu, starring Melanie Griffith and Patrick Swayze. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Kaye was producer and writer of The Lohman and Barkley Show, a late-nite live, 90 minute, satirical show that ran for a year on KNBC, the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles in 1971. A precursor to Saturday Night Live, Kaye gave Barry Levinson, Craig T. Nelson, John Amos, and McLean Stevenson their first jobs in the entertainment business.^[1] In 2012, The Los Angeles Review of Books began publishing his memoirs.^[2]

References

1. "Dead Circus: About the Filmmakers". The Dead Circus Official Page.
2. "John Kaye's LARB author archive.".

External links

• John Kaye at the Internet Movie Database