Graham Yost
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- September 5, 1959
- Birthplace
- Etobicoke, Greater Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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. In 2002, he created the widely acclaimed, yet short-lived drama series Boomtown. He has also written for the television series Herman's Head and Band of Brothers. He also created the short-lived NBC drama Raines. Yost teamed up 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. As of 2010, Yost is the creator and executive producer of the series Justified, which premiered on FX in March 2010. Born in Etobicoke, 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 lives in California with his family.
Filmography
The Grizzlies 2019
Writer, Story
Young Arthur 2002
Writer
The Last Castle 2001
Screenplay
Mission to Mars 2000
Screenplay
Hard Rain 1998
Screenplay
Speed 2: Cruise Control 1997
Characters
Broken Arrow 1996
Screenplay
Speed 1994
Writer
Elmore Leonard: "But Don't Try to Write" 2021
as Self
The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story 2018
as Self
Credits from TMDB.