Harley Peyton
{{short description|American screenwriter}}
Harley Peyton is an American television producer and writer.{{cite web | url=https://deadline.com/2020/07/chucky-harley-peyton-jeremiah-chechiks-newly-formed-modern-story-signs-with-buchwald-1202992123/ | title='Chucky' EP Harley Peyton & Jeremiah Chechik's Newly Formed Modern Story Signs with Buchwald | date=22 July 2020 }} He worked in both capacities on Twin Peaks and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his writing on the series.
Biography
He went to Harvard and Stanford.{{cite web|url=http://screentalk.org/int008.htm|title=Harley Peyton Hollywood Bandit|accessdate=2022-02-26|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020126214927/http://screentalk.org:80/int008.htm|archive-date=January 26, 2002|df=mdy-all}}
Peyton began, working on feature films in the 1980s and 1990s. He performed rewrites on several studio productions, and adapted the Dave Robicheaux novel Heaven's Prisoners by James Lee Burke into a 1996 feature film. 2009's In the Electric Mist, also featuring Robicheaux (albeit played by Tommy Lee Jones), acted as a sequel, but Peyton was not involved.
Peyton also expanded into television in the 1990s, writing and creating series such as Moon Over Miami and Route 66. Other series Peyton has worked on include Dracula, Reign and Dominion. He scripted the superhero series Three Inches for Syfy, but it was never ordered to series.{{cite web | url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a292098/syfy-denies-three-inches-axe/ | title=Syfy denies 'Three Inches' axe | website=Digital Spy | date=8 December 2010 }} In 2021, he created Reginald the Vampire for Syfy. It has been renewed for a second series.{{cite web | url=https://deadline.com/2023/01/reginald-the-vampire-renewed-for-season-2-at-syfy-1235222353/ | title='Reginald the Vampire' Renewed for Season 2 at Syfy | date=15 January 2023 }}
Filmography
=Films=
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| Year | Film | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987
|Screenplay By | | |||
| 1991
|Danger Team |Writer |Television Movie | |||
| 1993
|Screenplay By |Uncredited Revision | |||
| rowspan=2|1996
|Bullet Hearts |Executive Producer |Television Movie | |||
| Heaven's Prisoners
|Screenplay By |Co-Wrote Screenplay with Scott Frank | |||
| rowspan=2|1997
|Writer, Producer, Second Unit Director | | |||
| Gold Coast{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/1996/scene/vpage/caruso-back-on-tv-in-showtime-gold-1117466586/ |title=Caruso back on TV in Showtime 'Gold' |author=Ray Richmond |newspaper=Variety |date=18 December 1996 |accessdate=21 December 2019}}
|Screenplay By |Television Movie | |||
| 2001
|Writer, Executive Producer | | |||
| 2004
|Screenplay By |Uncredited Revision | |||
| rowspan=2|2011
|Story By |Co-Wrote Story with Keith Merryman and David A. Newman | |||
| Three Inches
|Executive Producer |Television Movie | |||
| 2016
|Written By |Television Movie |
=Television=
| class="wikitable" | |||
| Year | TV Series | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-91
|Writer, Producer | | |||
| rowspan=2|1993
|Creator, Co-Executive Producer | | |||
| Moon Over Miami
|Creator, Writer, Executive Producer | | |||
| 2007
|Writer |Episode "The Straw" | |||
| 2012-13
|Writer, Consulting Producer | | |||
| 2013-14
|Writer, Co-Executive Producer | | |||
| 2014-15
|Writer, Executive Producer | | |||
| 2015
|Writer |Episode "The Longest Mile Home" | |||
| 2016
|Writer |Episode "She's One of Them Now" | |||
| 2016-18
|Writer, Executive Producer | | |||
| 2019-20
|Writer, Co-Executive Producer | | |||
| 2021–24
|Writer, Executive Producer | | |||
| 2021–24
|Creator, Writer, Executive Producer | |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0679037|name=Harley Peyton}}
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Category:American male screenwriters
Category:American television writers
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:American male television writers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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