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Name
  
Robert Jr.

Role
  
Television writer

Spouse
  
Meg Bennett (m. 2004)


Awards
  
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Screenplay

Movies and TV shows
  
Prom Night, Sunset Beach, General Hospital: Night Shift, Melanie

Similar People
  
Garin Wolf, Jill Farren Phelps, Charles Pratt - Jr, Meg Bennett, Ron Carlivati

Robert Guza Jr.: The Write Stuff, Part 1 - Soap Opera Digest

Robert Guza Jr. (born 1951) is an American television writer and producer, and formerly held the position as head writer on the long running ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital.

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Personal life

Guza has been married to actress and fellow writer Meg Bennett since the late 1980s. Guza has also lost two children.

Career

During the 2007 WGA strike, Garin Wolf assumed head writing duties through March 17, 2008, at which time Guza's post-strike episodes hit the air waves.

Positions on General Hospital

Script Writer (hired by Anne Howard Bailey; 1982–1987)

Head writer

  • March 1996 – October 1996: with Karen Harris
  • December 1997 – December 2000: Solo
  • June 13, 2002 – March 10, 2006: with Charles Pratt Jr. (re-hired by Angela Shapiro)
  • March 13, 2006 – January 2007: Solo
  • February 2007 – October 2007: with Meg Bennett
  • October 2007 – January 3, 2008; March 17, 2008 – July 25, 2011

    • Other writing positions

    General Hospital: Night Shift; July 12, 2007 – October 4, 2007

  • Head writer (with Elizabeth Korte)

    • Loving

  • Head writer (with Millee Taggart): 1992

    • Melrose Place

  • Script Writer: 1992 (hired by Darren Star)

    • Models Inc.

  • Script Writer and Story Editor: 1994

    • Port Charles

  • Storyline Consultant: 1998

    • Santa Barbara

  • Breakdown Writer: 1988–1991

    • Sunset Beach

  • Co-Creator (with Charles Pratt Jr. & Josh Griffith) and head writer: January 1997 – October 1997

    • Prom Night

  • co-written with William Gray

    • Curtains [1]

    Melanie [2]

    Awards & nominations

    Guza has been nominated for twenty Daytime Emmy Awards, the first being in 1994 [3]. Guza has won three Daytime Emmys for his work as head writer (all for General Hospital), four Emmys for his role as a consulting producer in GH's wins for Outstanding Drama Series, and one as a breakdown writer for Santa Barbara's win of Outstanding Writing Team. Guza was nominated six times for a Writers Guild of America Award (winning once), and has been nominated for a Genie Award.

    References

    Robert Guza Jr. Wikipedia
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