Don McGuire

Don McGuire (born Don Rose;

Career McGuire worked at a newspaper in Chicago but left that job to enlist in the Army in 1941. He was a military police first sergeant, serving in the Aleutian Islands until 1944.

McGuire's acting debut came in San Antonio. He went on to act in The Fuller Brush Man and Armored Car Robbery, among other films. While acting, he also worked on several screenplays including Meet Danny Wilson and Bad Day at Black Rock.

In the early 1960s, he created, produced or co-produced, directed, and wrote scripts for the television series Hennesey (1959–1962) and Don't Call Me Charlie! (1962–1963), and he guest-starred as General Nuxhall in the 1962 episode "Play It, Sam" of the latter show. Towards the end of his career, he directed three films: Johnny Concho, The Delicate Delinquent, One of his wives was Karen X. Gaylord, whom he had married on August 15, 1948. He was survived by two nieces, Mary Beth Rose and Patty Rose.

Recognition McGuire was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for co-writing Tootsie. He won Screenwriters Guild Awards for his work on that film and on Bad Day at Black Rock.