Awards & Winners

William Hanley

Date of Birth 22-October-1931
Place of Birth Lorain
(Lorain County, Ohio, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Willliam Gerald Hanley
Profession Writer, Screenwriter, Playwright, Film Producer, Television Producer
William Hanley is an American playwright, novelist, and scriptwriter. His parents were William and Anne Hanley. William Hanley, Sr was born in Liverpool, England in 1899, of Irish Catholic immigrants. He was a seaman prior to settling in the USA, and then worked as a housepainter. Shortly after Hanley's birth the family moved to Queens, New York. Hanley attended Cornell for a year, then served in the Army in the early 1950s, before enrolling at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, though he never pursued an acting career. He worked as a bank clerk, mail clerk, factory worker, and book salesman while writing his early scripts. William Hanley married Shelley Post, 1956, and married Pat Stanley, 1962. Hanley was a successful Broadway and off Broadway playwright in the 1960s. Howard Taubman wrote in The New York Times in 1962, that Mr. Hanley "an uncommonly gifted writer." But the accolades, and a Tony nomination, did not provide commercial success. "Slow Dance" ran for 88 performances, the off Broadway plays had closed within a month. However, Hanley subsequently he had a successful career in television, beginning with "Flesh and Blood," originally a stage play that Hanley sold in 1966, to NBC for $112,500, "at the time the most that television had paid an author for a single work". Over a perid of thirty years Hanley wrote more than two dozen TV scripts. He was nominated for Emmys five times and won twice. He also published three novels in the 1970s. William Hanley died May 25, 2012 after suffering a fall in his home in Ridgefield, CT. He was 80.

Awards by William Hanley

Check all the awards nominated and won by William Hanley.

1990


Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special The Kennedys of Massachusetts

1988


Edgar Awards for Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay
Honored for : Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special
Honored for : The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Awards for Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder

1985


Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Awards for Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay Celebrity

1984


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special
Honored for : Something About Amelia
(Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or A Special)

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special Something About Amelia
Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or A Special

1983


Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special Little Gloria... Happy at Last

1965


Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Playwright

Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Playwright

1963


Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Playwright
Honored for : Mrs. Dally Has a Lover, Whisper into My Good Ear

Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Playwright Mrs. Dally Has a Lover","Whisper into My Good Ear