Graham Yost

Graham John Yost (born September 5, 1959) is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His best-known works are the films Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain and the TV series Justified and Silo.

Early life, family and education Yost was born in Etobicoke in the Toronto metropolitan area. He is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost, the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies.

He graduated from the University of Toronto Schools and Trinity College at the University of Toronto.

Career Yost wrote for the TV sitcom Herman's Head and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. In 2002, he created the television drama series Boomtown. He created the short-lived NBC drama Raines (2007). Yost teamed with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow Boomtown writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries The Pacific.

Yost is the creator and executive producer of the FX series Justified which premiered in 2010. He was an executive producer on the FX show The Americans which ran from 2013 to 2018. In 2014, Yost was attached to an adaptation of the Alex Kershaw book Avenue of Spies for WGN America. In 2016, he took over as head writer and executive producer of the Amazon Studios series Sneaky Pete.

In May 2021, Apple TV+ announced that Yost would serve as showrunner and executive producer for the science fiction series Silo based on the dystopian book series of the same name by Hugh Howey.

On July 31, 2026, Variety reported that Yost and Aric Avelino were developing the "Harlem Trilogy," based on three novels by Colson Whitehead, for Apple TV.

Awards and nominations Yost won two Emmy Awards for his involvement in the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and The Pacific, which was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He also won a Golden Globe for his work on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, for which he was one of the writers.

Personal life Graham Yost is married to Connie F. Yost.

Filmography Film writer Speed (1994) Broken Arrow (1996) Firestorm (1998) (rewrite) Hard Rain (1998) Mission to Mars (2000) Planet of the Apes (2001) (uncredited) The Last Castle (2001) The Grizzlies (2018)

TV series Year Title Director Writer Creator Producer Notes 1989–1991 Hey Dude 13 episodes 1991 Herman's Head Episode "The Last Boy Scout" 1992–1993 The Powers That Be 4 episodes1998 From the Earth to the Moon Wrote 2 episodes;Directed episode "Spider" L.A. Doctors Episode "Whither Thou Goest" 2001 Band of Brothers 2 episodes 2002–2003 Boomtown Wrote 6 episodes 2004 Summerland Episode "Skipping School" 2007 Raines Wrote episode "Pilot" 2010 The Pacific Wrote and directed episode "Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika" 2010–2015 Justified Wrote 12 episodes 2011 Falling Skies Wrote episode "The Armory" 2013–2018 The Americans 2015–2018 Sneaky Pete Wrote 7 episodes 2022–present Slow Horses 2023–present Silo Wrote 3 episodes 2023 Justified: City Primeval 2024 Masters of the Air

TV movies Year Title Writer ExecutiveProducer 2002 Young Arthur 2006 Sixty Minute Man 2014 Wild Blue