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A conversation about the series "Rescue Me"
with Denis Leary and Peter Tolan on Jun 22, 2005
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with Denis Leary and Peter Tolan on Jun 22, 2005
Peter Tolan is a television and movie writer. After college, he found work as an actor and writer at Dudley Riggs Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis, and then moved to New York City and wrote a series of one-act plays that found their way to the stage. His first break was in 1990, when he joined the staff of the NBC sketch comedy show “Carol & Company,” starring Carol Burnett. From there, he joined the staffs of “Home Improvement” and then “Murphy Brown.” It was on “Murphy Brown” that Tolan won his first Emmy award, one of his two nominations for the show. Tolan also joined the HBO comedy series “The Larry Sanders Show,” and won his second Emmy for writing the poignant series finale in 1998. He was nominated five other times for the show. Tolan continued to work in television for the next few years as a writer on “Ellen.”
Tolan began his foray into movies at that time, penning screenplays for “My Fellow Americans” in 1996 and “What Planet Are You From.” These were followed “Analyze This,” in 1999, its sequel “Analyze That,” in 2003, and “Bedazzled,” in 2000. Tolan also wrote “America?s Sweethearts,” released in 2001, followed by “Stealing Harvard.” In 2001, Tolan and comedian Denis Leary produced the ABC television series “The Job.” When that show did not work out, Tolan and Leary produced “Rescue Me.” Tolan has continued to work in feature films, including “Just Like Heaven,” and 2005’s “Guess Who.”
Source - Yahoo movies http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/artists/t/Peter-Tolan/biography-324169.html
