William Hanley (Writer)
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Works
The Gypsy Moths
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.
Release Date1969-08-29
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count47
Scarlett
Scarlett is a 1994 American television miniseries loosely based on Alexandra Ripley's eponymous 1991 book of the same name, a sequel to Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone with the Wind' (1936). Filmed across the United States and abroad, the series stars Joanne Whalley and Timothy Dalton. The miniseries was broadcast in four parts on CBS from November 13-17, 1994. Following the death of her sister-in-law Melanie Wilkes, Scarlett O'Hara sets out to reclaim her doomed romance with Rhett Butler, as it takes her home to Tara to Charleston to Savannah to Ireland, where she learns of her family's roots.
Release Date1994-11-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count36
The Family Man
A happily married family man, owner of a parking garage in Manhattan, drifts into a romance with one of his customers who has been having troubles with her lover.
Release Date1979-12-19
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Our Sons
When James admits to his mother that he is gay it strains her liberal attitude. A San Diego businesswoman, Audrey believes she is a modern, open-minded mother, but the news sends her reeling. However, the real shock comes when James asks her to travel to Arkansas and inform his lover's estranged mom, Luanne, that her son has AIDS. As Audrey and Luanne learn to put aside their prejudice toward each other, they soon discover how to share their thoughts, hopes and fears for their sons.
Release Date1991-05-19
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Vote Count21
The Silent Lovers
The story of the ill-fated romance between Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.
Release Date1980-05-20
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count2
Passion's Way
Set in early 1900s France, a widow renews a former romantic interest until it is discovered that he has had a past fling with one of her new employees, a nanny. This sets the two women into many well-mannered accusations and conversations, but no modern brawling, and puts him in the middle or possibly on the outside.
Release Date1999-07-25
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Executive Producer
Vote Count5
When the Time Comes
A terminally ill woman seeks assistance in taking her life when her husband refuses.
Release Date1987-05-28
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
The Long Way Home
A retired widower wanders away from his daughter's home, hooks up with a free-spirited young woman, and goes on a cross-country odyssey to look up an old flame he's recently heard from after 55 years.
Release Date1998-03-01
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count10
Grand Prix
The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped by his sponsor. Refusing to quit, he joins a Japanese racing team. While juggling his career with a torrid love affair involving an ex-teammate's wife, Pete must also contend with Jean-Pierre Sarti, a French contestant who has previously won two world titles.
Release Date1966-12-21
DepartmentCrew
JobAdditional Dialogue
Vote Count211
Who'll Save Our Children?
A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable court battle.
Release Date1978-12-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Celebrity
Self-proclaimed faith healer T.J. Luther, movie star Mack Crawford and journalist Kleber Cantrell share a fateful reunion in a deserted Texas cabin that was the scene of a night of violence over two decades.
Release Date1984-02-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count5
Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
A sociopathic socialite plots her father's murder.
Release Date1987-03-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and her aunt.
Release Date1982-10-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count8
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
The Kennedys of Massachusetts is a 1990 TV miniseries that aired on ABC. Focusing mainly on the fifty-four year marriage of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy. The events depicted in the series are based upon the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin titled The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys : An American Saga. The series aired across three nights, an earned an Emmy and Golden Globe.
Release Date1990-02-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count4
The Last to Go
Tyne Daly plays a woman who sees the dreams of her youth change over a 22-year period as, first, her surgeon husband leaves her for another relationship, and then, her children, on reaching adulthood, go their separate ways. Adapted from the 1988 novel by Rand Richards Cooper.
Release Date1991-01-21
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count2
Ellen Foster
After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home.
Release Date1997-12-14
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count15
Something About Amelia
Counseling helps family deal with the discovery that their child was sexually abused by the closest relative.
Release Date1984-01-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count15
Father Figure
Following their parents' divorce and their mother's subsequent suicide, a teenager and his younger brother are resentful of having to live with the father from whom they have long been estranged, and the struggle to reestablish a relationship is explored.
Release Date1980-10-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
In Broad Daylight
The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small town for years. One day the comment of a saleswoman about Len's son not being able to pay his sweets triggers off his persecution complex. As revenge for the believed insult, the whole family starts stalking the shop owner and her husband... until this escalates and the old man gets badly injured. Len is arrested, but gets off, free on bail. His clever attorney delays the court session for more than a year - while Rowan keeps threatening the witnesses. But then, the people feel they've had enough of this and decide to take the law in their own hands...
Release Date1991-02-03
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count7
Too Far to Go
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.
Release Date1979-03-12
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count3
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic above the office. The film tells the true story of Gies' struggle to keep the family hidden and safe, as the Nazis turn Amsterdam upside-down. Based upon Gies' memoirs and Anne Frank's famous diary.
Release Date1988-04-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
The Scarlett O'Hara War
The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Release Date1980-05-19
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count7