Peter Lefcourt

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Peter Lefcourt (born 1941) is an Emmy Award-winning American television producer, a film and television screenwriter, and a novelist.

Lefcourt's early career involved writing teleplays for primetime series such as Cagney and Lacey, Scarecrow and Mrs. King (both of which he also produced), Eight is Enough, and Remington Steele, among others. He penned the scripts for the television movies Monte Carlo, Cracked Up, Danielle Steel's Fine Things, and The Women of Windsor. In more recent years he executive-produced and wrote for Beggars and Choosers and Karen Sisco.

Lefcourt was nominated for a 1984 Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for Cagney and Lacey and won the following year.

Much of Lefcourt's fiction has been inspired by his true-life experiences working behind-the-scenes in Hollywood. His first novel, The Deal, was adapted for the screen by William H. Macy and debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Several others of his books are under option or in various stages of development for feature films.

Lefcourt lives with his wife Terri in Santa Monica, California.

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The Deal, about a down-and-out movie producer whose leading man is kidnapped from the set during filming
The Dreyfus Affair, a comic look at homophobia in baseball
Di & I, a fictionalized account of Lefcourt's love affair with the late Diana, Princess of Wales
Abbreviating Ernie, about a Prozac-popping Schenectady housewife accused of murdering her urologist husband
The Woody, inspired by his research for an HBO film about the 1995 Bob Packwood scandal
Eleven Karens, an erotic memoir of his love affairs with eleven women named Karen
The Manhattan Beach Project, a spoof of reality television featuring the lead character in The Deal