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John Kaye

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 5

TMDB ID: 82394

IMDb ID: nm0443329

Known for: Writing

Born: August 31, 1941

Age: 84

Place of birth: USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1975 - 2025

Years active: 51

Average TMDB rating: 5.63

Wikidata: Q6242553

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Kaye (born August 31, 1941) is an American screenwriter, novelist and playwright. His feature credits as a screenwriter include American Hot Wax, Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins and Where the Buffalo Roam. He also directed the feature film Forever Lulu, starring Melanie Griffith and Patrick Swayze. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Kaye was producer and writer of The Lohman and Barkley Show, a late-nite live, 90 minute, satirical show that ran for a year on KNBC, the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles in 1971. A precursor to Saturday Night Live, Kaye gave Barry Levinson, Craig T. Nelson, John Amos, and McClean Stevenson their first jobs in the entertainment business. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Kaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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