Years active 1989–present | Role Television screenwriter Name Graham Yost Siblings Christopher Yost | |
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Full Name Graham John Yost Books Spy-Tech, Back problems, The CIA, Vitamins and Minerals, Wild Bill and the Intrepid Movies and TV shows Similar People Joe Weisberg, El Leonard, Joelle Carter, Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins | ||
Parents Ragnhild Melby, Elwy Yost |
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Graham John Yost (born September 5, 1959) is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His best-known works are the films Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain and the TV series Justified. In 2002, he created the widely acclaimed, yet short-lived drama series Boomtown.
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- Interview with graham yost justified fx the pacific hbo speed broken arrow
- Rockburn Presents Graham Yost
- Credits
- Awards and nominations
- Future projects
- References

He has also written for the television series Herman's Head and Band of Brothers. He also created the short-lived NBC drama Raines. Yost teamed up with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow Boomtown writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries The Pacific. Yost is the creator and executive producer of the FX series Justified, and an executive producer on the FX show The Americans.

Born in Etobicoke, he graduated from the University of Toronto Schools and Trinity College at the University of Toronto. He is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost, the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies. He lives in California with his family.

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Credits

Awards and nominations

Yost won Emmy awards for his involvement in the mini-series From the Earth to the Moon and The Pacific. He also won a Golden Globe for his work on HBO miniseries, Band of Brothers, for which he was one of the writers.
Future projects

In May 2014 it was reported that Yost is developing a project for WGN America. Based on an upcoming Alex Kershaw novel, "Avenue of Spies," it is set in Nazi-occupied Paris at the start of World War II.