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Joan Tewkesbury

  • Producer
  • Director
  • Actress
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Joan Tewkesbury began her career at age ten as a dancer in The Unfinished Dance. A few years later she appeared as an Ostrich, an Indian and Mary Martin's flying understudy in Jerome Robbin's Peter Pan. She attended University of Southern California, became a choreographer, a theatre director, a script supervisor for Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller then a writer of feature films, "Thieves Like Us" and "Nashville" and the director of "Old Boyfriends" which was presented at "Director's Fortnight" at the Cannes Film Festival.

She has also written, directed numerous projects for Cable and Network television: "The Tenth Month," "Acorn People", "Cold Sassy Tree", "Sudie and Simpson", "Wild Texas Wind", the HBO's series "The Stranger", "On Promised Land", "Elysian Fields" and was a consulting producer for the CBS series, "The Guardian".

For the stage she wrote, directed and choreographed "Dance Card" for the Oregon Ballet theatre, wrote and directed "Jammed" presented at the Edinburgh Festival and wrote, directed and produced "Retrospective" at the Manhattan Theatre Source in New York.

Ten years ago she developed a class, "Designed Obstacles, Spontaneous Response" which she has presented at Art Center, American Film Institute, Bard College, Chapel Hill, U.C.L.A., N.A.L.I.P. and various film maker labs and emersions though out the United States, Israel, Europe and Japan.

She participates as a creative advisor for the Sundance Institute Native Lab, the Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Lab and has created a Writers Forum at Los Luceros in Alcalde, New Mexico.

Her work has been honored by the Writers Guild, Humanitas, Golden Globes, the British Academy Awards, Cable Ace, Academy Awards best picture nomination for "Nashville" and the Los Angeles Critics award for best original screenplay.
BornApril 8, 1936
BornApril 8, 1936
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 1 win & 4 nominations total

    Known for

    Nashville (1975)
    Nashville
    7.6
    • Tom's Lover
    • Kenny's Mother(voice, uncredited)
    • 1975
    Warren Beatty and Julie Christie in McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    7.6
    • Townsperson(as Joan McGuire)
    • 1971
    CBS Summer Playhouse (1987)
    CBS Summer Playhouse
    6.5
    TV Series
    • Producer
    Thieves Like Us (1974)
    Thieves Like Us
    6.9
    • Lady in Train Station(as Joan Maguire)
    • 1974

    Credits

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    Producer



    • The Guardian (2001)
      The Guardian
      7.4
      TV Series
      • consulting producer
      • 2002–2004
    • CBS Summer Playhouse (1987)
      CBS Summer Playhouse
      6.5
      TV Series
      • co-executive producer
      • 1989

    Director



    • The Guardian (2001)
      The Guardian
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2001–2004
    • Lauren Holly, Hector Elizondo, Carla Gugino, Mark Harmon, Barbara Hershey, Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, and Rocky Carroll in Chicago Hope (1994)
      Chicago Hope
      6.9
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1999
    • Nothing Sacred (1997)
      Nothing Sacred
      7.2
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1997–1998
    • Scott Foley, Keri Russell, and Scott Speedman in Felicity (1998)
      Felicity
      6.9
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1998
    • Scattering Dad (1998)
      Scattering Dad
      5.2
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 1998
    • Norman D. Golden II and Joan Plowright in On Promised Land (1994)
      On Promised Land
      7.8
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 1994
    • Neil Patrick Harris in Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989)
      Doogie Howser, M.D.
      6.5
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1990–1992
    • Picket Fences (1992)
      Picket Fences
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1992
    • Northern Exposure (1990)
      Northern Exposure
      8.4
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1992
    • Linda Fiorentino, Timothy Hutton, and Joan Chen in Strangers (1992)
      Strangers
      4.9
      TV Movie
      • Director (segment "Windows")
      • 1992
    • Wild Texas Wind (1991)
      Wild Texas Wind
      5.8
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 1991
    • Shannon's Deal (1990)
      Shannon's Deal
      8.0
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1991
    • Sudie and Simpson (1990)
      Sudie and Simpson
      6.8
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 1990
    • Cold Sassy Tree (1989)
      Cold Sassy Tree
      6.2
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 1989
    • CBS Summer Playhouse (1987)
      CBS Summer Playhouse
      6.5
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 1989

    Actress



    • Tim Robbins in The Player (1992)
      The Player
      7.5
      • Joan Tewkesbury
      • 1992
    • Nashville (1975)
      Nashville
      7.6
      • Tom's Lover
      • Kenny's Mother (voice, uncredited)
      • 1975
    • Thieves Like Us (1974)
      Thieves Like Us
      6.9
      • Lady in Train Station (as Joan Maguire)
      • 1974
    • Warren Beatty and Julie Christie in McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
      McCabe & Mrs. Miller
      7.6
      • Townsperson (as Joan McGuire)
      • 1971
    • Crazy World, Crazy People
      TV Movie
      • (as Joan Maguire)
      • 1968
    • The Long, Hot Summer (1965)
      The Long, Hot Summer
      7.2
      TV Series
      • Hannah
      • 1966
    • Walter Brennan in The Tycoon (1964)
      The Tycoon
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Mrs. Clark
      • 1964
    • Rock Hudson, Charlene Holt, and Paula Prentiss in Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)
      Man's Favorite Sport?
      7.1
      • Woman in Elevator (uncredited)
      • 1964
    • Ted Bessell, Randy Boone, Michael Burns, Glenn Corbett, Harry Harvey, and Peter Tewksbury in It's a Man's World (1962)
      It's a Man's World
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Mrs. Belknap
      • 1962–1963
    • My Three Sons (1960)
      My Three Sons
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Aunt Harriet
      • 1961
    • Maureen Bailey, Sondra Lee, Kent Fletcher, Edmund Gaynes, Luke Halpin, Benedict Herrman, David Komoroff, Mary Martin, Jacqueline Mayro, Cyril Ritchard, Norman Shelly, Bill Snowden, Joey Trent, and Carson Woods in Peter Pan (1960)
      Peter Pan
      7.4
      TV Movie
      • Ostrich
      • 1960
    • Producers' Showcase (1954)
      Producers' Showcase
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Ostrich
      • 1955–1956

    Personal details

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    • Alternative names
      • Joan Maguire
    • Height
      • 5′ 6½″ (1.69 m)
    • Born
      • April 8, 1936
      • Redlands, California, USA
    • Spouse
      • Robert F. Maguire IIINovember 30, 1960 - January 1973 (divorced, 2 children)
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