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Canadian comedy screenwriter
Ricky Blitt
Born Richard Michael Blitt
Nationality
Canadian Occupation(s) Writer, director, producer, actor Relatives
Barry Blitt (brother)
Richard Michael Blitt is a Canadian-born
screenwriter ,
film director ,
producer , and
actor who has been based in Los Angeles since 1994.
Early in his career, Blitt was a writer on
The Jeff Foxworthy Show and
Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. He was one of the original writers on
Family Guy , where he would go on to become a producer and write several episodes. He also appeared as an actor in Family Guy' s first ever live action sequence alongside
Alyssa Milano .
He co-wrote and starred in a
Fox pilot in 2003 titled Blitt Happens starring
Jim Parsons and directed by
The Farrelly Brothers .
He created and was the executive producer of
The Winner starring
Rob Corddry for Fox. He also created the series
Romantically Challenged , re-teaming with its star Alyssa Milano on
ABC .
Ricky has been a series regular and writer for the
Peter Farrelly -Bobby Mort created comedy
Loudermilk for the past three seasons on the
Audience network.
In film, Blitt won a Perspectives of the Media award for his screenplay for
Fox Searchlight's
The Ringer . Blitt made his directing debut with his recent film
Hit By Lightning starring
Jon Cryer .
Blitt also owns a production company, Candy Bar Productions.
Personal life
Blitt was raised in
Côte Saint-Luc ,
Quebec , a municipality on the
Island of Montreal . He is a graduate of
McGill University and attended the
AFI Conservatory . His older brother is magazine illustrator
Barry Blitt .
[1]
[2] He is
Jewish .
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References
External links
1980s 1990s
Daniel Waters , James Cappe, and
David Arnott –
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
Steven E. de Souza ,
Daniel Waters ,
Bruce Willis , and
Robert Kraft –
Hudson Hawk (1991)
Blake Snyder ,
William Osborne , and
William Davies –
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
Amy Holden Jones –
Indecent Proposal (1993)
Tom S. Parker,
Jim Jennewein ,
Steven E. de Souza , and
various others –
The Flintstones (1994)
Joe Eszterhas –
Showgirls (1995)
Andrew Bergman –
Striptease (1996)
Eric Roth and
Brian Helgeland –
The Postman (1997)
Joe Eszterhas –
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998)
Jim Thomas ,
John Thomas ,
S. S. Wilson ,
Brent Maddock ,
Jeffrey Price, and Peter S. Seaman –
Wild Wild West (1999)
2000s 2010s
M. Night Shyamalan –
The Last Airbender (2010)
Steve Koren ,
Adam Sandler , and Ben Zook –
Jack and Jill (2011)
David Caspe –
That's My Boy (2012)
Steve Baker,
Ricky Blitt , Will Carlough, Tobias Carlson, Jacob Fleisher, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham,
James Gunn , Claes Kjellstrom, Jack Kukoda,
Bob Odenkirk , Bill O'Malley, Matthew Alec Portenoy,
Greg Pritikin , Rocky Russo,
Olle Sarri , Elizabeth Wright Shapiro,
Jeremy Sosenko , Jonathan van Tulleken, and Jonas Wittenmark –
Movie 43 (2013)
Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey –
Saving Christmas (2014)
Kelly Marcel –
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Chris Terrio and
David S. Goyer –
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Tony Leondis , Eric Siegel, and
Mike White –
The Emoji Movie (2017)
Niall Leonard –
Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
Lee Hall and
Tom Hooper –
Cats (2019)
2020s