Lowell Ganz (born August 31, 1948 in New York, New York) is an American screenwriter, television writer, and television producer. He is the long-time writing partner of Babaloo Mandel. August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... Screenwriters, or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made. ... A Television producer oversees the making of television programmes. ...

Ganz grew up in Queens, New York. He dropped out of college and moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue a career writing for sitcoms, starting with The Odd Couple. From there, he moved on to writing for the beloved TV show Happy Days and created two of its spin-off series, Laverne and Shirley and Joanie Loves Chachi. Queens is geographically the largest of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States, and the most ethnically diverse county in the U.S. It is coterminous with Queens County in the State of New York and is located on western Long Island. ... Downtown Los Angeles skyline facing northeast toward the San Gabriel Mountains on a clear winter day. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... The Odd Couple was a 1965 play by Neil Simon. ... Happy Days is a popular United States television sitcom that originally aired between 1974 and 1984 on the ABC television network. ... Laverne & Shirley was a popular American television situation comedy which ran on ABC from 1976 to 1983. ... Joanie Loves Chachi is a TV spin-off of the popular series Happy Days that was originally broadcast on ABC from March 23, 1982 to September 13, 1983. ...

In 1982, Ganz and Mandel teamed up with Happy Days actors Ron Howard--who wanted to start directing--and Henry Winkler--who wanted to move away from his image as the Fonz--to make their first film, a low-budget comedy called Night Shift, which was also actor Michael Keaton's first film. Ganz's second film outing, Splash, launched the careers of Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Henry Franklin Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is an actor, director and producer who is most famous for his role as Arthur Fonzie Fonzarelli on the popular sitcom Happy Days (1974 - 1984). ... Arthur The Fonz Fonzarelli (played by Henry Winkler) was a character in the American sitcom Happy Days (1974-1984). ... Night Shift is a 1982 film, one of Ron Howards earliest directorial efforts. ... Michael Keaton, (born September 9 or September 5, 1951 in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania) is an American actor. ... Splash is a 1984 fantasy film directed by Ron Howard, starring Daryl Hannah, Tom Hanks, John Candy and Eugene Levy. ... Tom Hanks in February 2004 Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor famous for playing notable roles in many popular and critically acclaimed movies. ... Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1960) is a popular American actress. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ...

Ganz and Mandel went on to write several other films, four more of which have also had Howard at the directing helm, and one of which had Penny Marshall, who starred in Laverne and Shirley, as director. Four of their films have featured Billy Crystal, two have featured Tom Hanks, and two are about baseball. Ganz and Mandel are also widely-used as Hollywood script doctors, known for their reliability and fast turnaround time. Penny Marshall (October 15, 1942) is an American actress, producer and director. ... Crystal on Hollywood Squares. ... Tom Hanks in February 2004 Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor famous for playing notable roles in many popular and critically acclaimed movies. ... A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium in Saint Louis, Missouri. ... A script doctor is a skilled screenwriter called in to rescue a failing movie project by rewriting parts of the script to improve the dialog, pacing, etc. ...

Ganz lives in Los Angeles with his wife of more than 25 years. They have three children named Scott, Allie, and Simon.

Selected screenwriting credits

• Robots (2005)
• Fever Pitch (2005) - a re-make of the Nick Hornby book, but set in the US and about the Boston Red Sox
• Edtv (1999)
• Multiplicity (1996)
• Forget Paris (1995)
• Greedy (1994)
• Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
• A League of Their Own (1992)
• City Slickers (1991)
• Parenthood (1989)
• Spies Like Us (1985)
• Splash (1984) - Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay
• Night Shift (1982)

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Selected television credits

• Hiller and Diller - executive producer
• Joanie Loves Chachi - creator, writer, and producer
• Laverne and Shirley - co-creator, writer, and producer
• Happy Days - writer and supervising producer
• The Odd Couple - writer

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External link

• IMDb entry for Lowell Ganz (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304665/)