Dan Gagliasso

Dan Gagliasso has written action films for legendary "B" Movie producer Roger Corman including 'Nam Angels and also served as historical advisor on the TNT Teddy Roosevelt mini-series Rough Riders. He co-wrote a pilot for an action/adventure series involving ex-patriot American medical and emergency rescue personnel for Morgan/Ruddy Productions.
He currently has three scripts in various stages of development — the World War II-time travel adventure Dragon’s Teeth with RZ/Mednick Productions, the true-life prison escape story Lawyers, Guns & Money with Truth Entertainment/NoEgo Productions and an adaptation of David Yurth’s unpublished medical science manuscript Code Eraser for producer Ray Zimmerman.
He is an award-winning documentary film maker whose credits as a director/ producer or writer include a number of History Channel, Discovery Channel and Fox News docs including The True Story of the Black Sheep, Comanche Warriors, The Battle of New Orleans, The O.K. Corral Gunfight and The Donner Party. Dan has been a member of the Director's Guild of America since 2002 and has written, directed or produced episodes of various basic cable series including History's Mysteries, Frontier, The Patriots and Unsolved History.
In 2002 He co-wrote the award-winning History Channel two-hour special Boone and Crockett: the Hunter Heroes that won the Western Writers Award for Best Documentary Script.
Dan has published over 170 feature magazine articles in various national American history, specialty and film magazines including American Cinematographer, Soldier of Fortune, The O.S.S. Society Journal, Montana; the Magazine of Western History, Cowboys & Indians,The Cowboy Way, Military Classics illustrated and many others.
He recently signed a deal with Post Hill Press to co-write a biographical filmmaking book with legendary Academy Award nominated screenwriter and director John Milius (Apocalypse Now, The Wind and the Lion Conan the Barbarian, Red Dawn) titled Hollywood Renegade.