# Graham Yost

Graham John Yost (born September 5, 1959) is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His best-known works are the films Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain and the TV series Justified and Silo.

## Early life, family and education

Yost was born in Etobicoke in the Toronto metropolitan area. He is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost, the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies.
He graduated from the University of Toronto Schools and Trinity College at the University of Toronto.

## Career

Yost wrote for the TV sitcom Herman's Head and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. In 2002, he created the television drama series Boomtown. He created the short-lived NBC drama Raines (2007). Yost teamed with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow Boomtown writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries The Pacific. Yost is the creator and executive producer of the FX series Justified. He was an executive producer on the FX show The Americans. In 2016, he took over as head writer and executive producer of the Amazon Studios series Sneaky Pete. In May 2014, it was reported that Yost would develop a project for WGN America. Based on the Alex Kershaw book Avenue of Spies, it would be set in Nazi-occupied Paris at the start of World War II.
In May 2021, Apple TV+ announced that Yost would serve as showrunner and executive producer for the science fiction series Silo based on the dystopian book series of the same name by Hugh Howey.

## Awards and nominations

Yost won two Emmy Awards for his involvement in the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and The Pacific, which was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He also won a Golden Globe for his work on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, for which he was one of the writers.

## Personal life

Graham Yost is married to Connie F. Yost.

## Filmography

Film writer
* Speed (1994)
* Broken Arrow (1996)
* Firestorm (1998) (rewrite)
* Hard Rain (1998)
* Mission to Mars (2000)
* Planet of the Apes (2001) (uncredited)
* The Last Castle (2001)
* The Grizzlies (2018)
TV series
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Creator | Producer | Notes |
| 1989-1991 | Hey Dude | No | Yes | No | No | 13 episodes |
| 1991 | Herman's Head | No | Yes | No | No | Episode "The Last Boy Scout" |
| 1992-1993 | The Powers That Be | No | Yes | No | No | 4 episodes |
| 1998 | From the Earth to the Moon | Yes | Yes | No | Supervising | Wrote 2 episodes; Directed episode "Spider" |
| 1998 | L.A. Doctors | Yes | No | No | No | Episode "Whither Thou Goest" |
| 2001 | Band of Brothers | No | Yes | No | No | 2 episodes |
| 2002-2003 | Boomtown | Yes | Yes | Yes | Executive | Wrote 6 episodes |
| 2004 | Summerland | No | Yes | No | No | Episode "Skipping School" |
| 2007 | Raines | No | Yes | Yes | Executive | Wrote episode "Pilot" |
| 2010 | The Pacific | Yes | Yes | No | Executive | Wrote and directed episode "Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika" |
| 2010-2015 | Justified | No | Yes | Yes | Executive | Wrote 12 episodes |
| 2011 | Falling Skies | No | Yes | No | Executive | Wrote episode "The Armory" |
| 2013-2018 | The Americans | No | No | No | Executive | |
| 2015-2018 | Sneaky Pete | No | Yes | No | Executive | Wrote 7 episodes |
| 2022–present | Slow Horses | No | No | No | Executive | |
| 2023–present | Silo | No | Yes | Yes | Executive | Wrote 2 episodes |
| 2023 | Justified: City Primeval | No | No | No | Executive | |
| 2024 | Masters of the Air | No | No | No | Co-Executive | |
TV movies
| Year | Title | Writer | Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Young Arthur | Yes | Yes |
| 2006 | Sixty Minute Man | Yes | Yes |
| 2014 | Wild Blue | No | Yes |