Christopher Knopf (December 20, 1927 – February 13, 2019) was an American screenwriter and union executive. He served as the president of the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) and the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds (IAWG). He won two awards from the WGAW: the Morgan Cox Award in 1991 and the Edmund H. North Award in 2002.[
In 2007, the Writers Guild of America, the Screenwriters Union, hit an impasse in their contract negotiations with the Studios. At the center of the dispute was jurisdiction over the internet. Unable to make progress, the WGA called a strike which brought Hollywood to a halt for 100 days.
Release Date: 2014-01-01
Character: Self
Vote Count: 1
Equal Justice was a television legal drama broadcast in the United States by ABC from March 27, 1990 to July 3, 1991. This series details on the lives of the district attorney's office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The series stars George DiCenzo, Cotter Smith, Kathleen Lloyd, Jane Kaczmarek, Sarah Jessica Parker, Barry Miller, Joe Morton, James Wilder, Jon Tenney and Debrah Farentino. Despite earning critical acclaim, the show received low ratings throughout its run and was cancelled after only two seasons.
Release Date: 1990-03-27
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
Contemporary drama dealing with an orphaned teenager trapped in an antiquated juvenile disciplinary system and the efforts of the institution's superintendent and a sympathetic teacher to get that system changed.
Release Date: 1987-03-14
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Vote Count: 3
The story of the Scotts, a young couple whose first child is born dangerously early, weighing less than a pound and a half. As they endure the anguish and struggle to help keep their baby alive, they discover what real love, courage and triumph are in the face of tragedy.
Release Date: 1987-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
A Cambodian family is given sponsored immigration to the United States where one daughter becomes a spelling bee champion.
Release Date: 1986-02-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 6
A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings. Also, in evening meetings, the addicts are confronted by their families. The girl's parents want to remove her from the program because it upsets them that their daughter is being forced to associate with addicts who admit to stealing and trading sex for drugs.
Release Date: 1985-01-15
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Vote Count: 3
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
Release Date: 1984-04-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal conflicts.
Release Date: 1981-04-12
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 5
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
Release Date: 1977-12-23
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 28
A political despot controls his town and his wife Maggie. When Maggie tries to escape his control, he swears a warrant out for her arrest and sends the law after her. The arresting officer, however, takes pity on Maggie and tries to help her escape the despot's clutches.
Release Date: 1977-10-07
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
Release Date: 1977-02-11
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 6
A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.
Release Date: 1975-06-04
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 68
The girlfriend of the Sundance Kid is on the run, with a price on her head, when she hears rumors that Sundance may still be alive.
Release Date: 1974-01-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
Release Date: 1973-05-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 128
Two scientists suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.
Release Date: 1973-01-30
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 32
The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.
Release Date: 1972-01-09
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Vote Count: 3
Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to March 1968. Starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim Crown, the series was produced by the creators of Gunsmoke. Reruns of the original show were aired in the summer of 1971. Cimarron Strip was one of only three 90-minute weekly Western series that aired during the 1960s, and the only 90-minute series of any kind to be centered primarily around one lead character. Cimarron Strip was set in the Oklahoma Panhandle, which comprises, east to west, Beaver, Texas, and Cimarron counties in Oklahoma. The show is set in 1888, just as the continuous frontier of the West, which once ran from the Canadian to the Mexican border, was closing. In less than five years there would no longer be that "continuous frontier," only pockets of undeveloped land. This was the late "Wild West" that Marshall Jim Crown was called to defend.
Release Date: 1967-09-07
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 11
When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.
Release Date: 1960-02-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 31
Teenage story of a bad apple in a barrel evolving from a kid's desire to drive a new T-bird.
Release Date: 1958-11-23
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders.
Release Date: 1957-11-17
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 17
When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.
Release Date: 1957-02-08
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 154
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
Release Date: 1955-08-05
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 8