Robert Gosnell

Screenwriter

Denver, Colorado

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July 2011

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About Robert

A professional screenwriter for more than twenty-five years, Robert Gosnell has produced credits in feature films, network television, syndicated television, basic and pay cable, and is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West, and the Writers Guild of Canada.

Robert began his career writing situation comedy as a staff writer for the ABC series Baby Makes Five. As a freelance writer, he wrote episodes for Too Close for Comfort and the TBS comedies Safe at Home and Rocky Road. In cable, he has scripted numerous projects for the Disney Channel, including Just Perfect, a Disney Channel movie which featured Jennie Garth. In 1998, he wrote the Showtime original movie, Escape from Wildcat Canyon, which starred Dennis Weaver and won the national "Parents Choice Award." Robert's feature credits include the Chuck Norris/Louis Gosset Jr. film Firewalker, an uncredited rewrite on the motion picture Number One With A Bullet starring Robert Carradine and Billy Dee Williams, and the sale of his original screenplay Kick And Kick Back to Cannon Films. Robert was also selected as a judge for the 1990 Cable Ace awards, in the Comedy Special category.

In 1990, Robert moved to Denver, where he became active in the local independent film community. His screenplay Tiger Street was produced by the Pagoda Group of Denver, and premiered on Showtime Extreme in August of 2003. In 1999, Denver’s Inferno Films produced the action film Dragon and the Hawk from his script. In 2001, Robert co-wrote the screenplay for the independent feature Siren for Las Vegas company Stage Left Productions. His feature script Juncture was produced by Front Range Films in March of 2006. Robert also served as Associate Producer of the independent feature Little Bear and the Master, and Co-Producer of Sodom: The Prophecy, Armageddon, which lensed in Texas in 2009.

Robert is is frequently an invited speaker for local writers organizations, served on the faculty of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Conference in 2002, and in 2007 was chosen to participate as a panelist for the Aspen Film Festival Short Screenplay Contest. Robert regularly presents his screenwriting class "The Elements of Screenplay," along with advanced classes and workshops, in the Denver area.
His book, "The Blue Collar Screenwriter and The Elements of Screenplay" is currently available at Amazon , Barnes & Noble and Smashwords.

Gender:
Male

Certifications

Credits

Juncture
Film by Front Range Films Screenwriter
Siren
Film by Stage Left Productions Screenwriter
Tiger Street
Film by Pagoda Group Screenwriter
Escape from Wildcat Canyon
Television by Showtime/Telescene Canada Writer - Teleplay
Just Perfect
Television by The Disney Channel Writer - Teleplay (MOW)
Too Close For Comfort (Henry Draws a Blank)
Television by Metromedia Writer
Safe at Home (Multiple Episodes)
Television by Turner Broadcasting/The Arthur Company Writer
Rocky Road (2 Episodes)
Television by Turner Broadcasting/The Arthur Company Writer
Baby Makes Five
Television by ABC Staff Writer
Firewalker
Film by Cannon Films Screenwriter