Nancy Dowd

Nancy Dowd (born 1945) is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter most famous for her films Slap Shot and Coming Home.[1]

Nancy Dowd
Born1945 (age 74–75)
Framingham, Massachusetts
OccupationScreenwriter
NationalityAmerican
Notable worksSlap Shot (1977)
Coming Home (1978)
Notable awardsAcademy Award
Best Original Screenplay
1979 Coming Home

Career

Dowd is a graduate of the UCLA Film School.

Her brother Ned Dowd inspired the story behind Slap Shot based on his experiences playing minor league hockey. Ned and his wife, Nancy N. Dowd, both appeared in the film.[2]

She wrote lyrics for a song used in Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, another film she wrote.

Dowd often uses pseudonyms such as Rob Morton or Ernest Morton, or simply writes films without being officially credited.

Filmography
gollark: Yes, well, I care about my privacy.
gollark: I mostly avoid cloud services like google whatever because they tend to come with stupid amounts of spying.
gollark: Must you go around referring to all spreadsheets by calling them `Excel`? That's a brand name.
gollark: *You wouldn't download a carSo why would you download an egg?*
gollark: We must do away with the sexist repression of gender-locked holidays!

References
  1. "Nancy Dowd". The New York Times.
  2. Jackson, Jonathon (2010). The Making of Slap Shot: Behind the Scenes of the Greatest Hockey Movie Ever Made. Wiley. p. 106. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
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