Douglas Bowie

Douglas Bowie (born 1944) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter from Kingston, Ontario.

Born and raised in Ottawa, he attended Queen's University and Carleton University, and worked in advertising copywriting in his early career. He won second prize in a television writing contest sponsored by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1967 for Who Was the Lone Ranger?, which was filmed and broadcast by the network later that year as an episode of the dramatic anthology series Teleplay.

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. He concentrated mainly on playwriting thereafter, including a stint as playwright in residence at the Thousand Islands Playhouse.

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. 1986 Love and Larceny 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