Ken Hixon (b. 1951) is an American screenwriter, best known for his scripts for Welcome to the Rileys (2010), City by the Sea (2002) and Inventing the Abbotts (1997).
Early life
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he began acting as a child in community theater. Hixon studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. His classmates included Anna Deavere Smith, Gregory Itzin, M. C. Gainey and Harry Hamlin.
Career
Hixon was a stage actor who worked in regional theater, including a Los Angeles production of Eugene O'Neill's two-character play Hughie with Charles Hallahan in 1979. Hixon's roles in film and television included appearances in George A. Romero's Knightriders (1981), Bitter Harvest (1981), and The Hollywood Knights (1980).
In the early 1980s he transitioned from acting to screenwriting. His writing credits include Incident at Deception Ridge (1994), Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987), and Grandview, U.S.A. (1984). Two of his television films, Secret Sins of the Father (1994) and Caught in the Act (1993), were nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America. City by the Sea (1997) was adapted from the Esquire magazine article Mark of a Murderer written by Michael McAlary. In 2019, he co-wrote the heist thriller Finding Steve McQueen, based on the United California Bank robbery. He also co-wrote Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2019).
References
- Maslin, Janet (4 April 1997). "Inventing the Abbotts". New York Times.
- "Movies". The New York Times.
- Christon, Lawrence (9 February 1979). "O'Neill: The Raw and the Refined". The Los Angeles Times. p. 122. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- "EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD BEST TV FEATURE OR MINISERIES | Cozy Mystery List".
- Denis Hamill (28 August 2002). "2 Killers and the man in the middle - L.I lawman, subject of new film, wrestles with family legacy". New York Daily News. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
- Mancuso, Vinnie (February 25, 2019). "'Finding Steve McQueen' Trailer Pulls Off a Presidential Bank Heist". Collider. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
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