Person
John Kaye
Writing · Born 1941-08-31 · USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Kaye (born August 31, 1941) is an American screenwriter, novelist and playwright. His feature credits as a screenwriter include American Hot Wax, Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins and Where the Buffalo Roam. He also directed the feature film Forever Lulu, starring Melanie Griffith and Patrick Swayze. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Kaye was producer and writer of The Lohman and Barkley Show, a late-nite live, 90 minute, satirical show that ran for a year on KNBC, the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles in 1971. A precursor to Saturday Night Live, Kaye gave Barry Levinson, Craig T. Nelson, John Amos, and McClean Stevenson their first jobs in the entertainment business. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Kaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for

Forever Lulu
Director

Where the Buffalo Roam
Screenplay

My Omaha
Creative Consultant

American Hot Wax
Screenplay

Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
Writer
Filmography
- 2025My OmahaCreative Consultant
- 2000Forever LuluDirector
- 1980Where the Buffalo RoamScreenplay
- 1978American Hot WaxScreenplay
- 1975Rafferty and the Gold Dust TwinsWriter
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