Writing

John Bowman

Sep 28, 1957 – Dec 28, 202116 titles 4 movies · 12 TV

Biography

John Bowman is an Emmy award winning writer who has been writing and producing comedy for 25 years. He has written for Saturday Night Live, It's Garry Shandling's Show, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, In Living Color, Martin, Murphy Brown, and Frank TV, among others. He created Martin and received two NAACP Awards and a People's Choice Award for his work there.

Also known as

John Bowman

Born

Sep 28, 1957 – Dec 28, 2021

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

10

Acting credits

0

Directing

5

Writing

3

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

By release / first air year · movie & TV merged

1962 1 title(s)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
tv · as Self · ★ 7.5

1975 1 title(s)

Saturday Night Live
tv · as Soldier (uncredited), as Bouncer (uncredited), as Secret Service Agent (uncredited), Writer · ★ 6.9

1984 1 title(s)

Miami Vice
tv · as Paul Delgado · ★ 7.4

1986 1 title(s)

It's Garry Shandling's Show
tv · Writer · ★ 7.1

1987 1 title(s)

The Secret of My Success
movie · as Proctor · ★ 6.5

1988 2 title(s)

1989 2 title(s)

1990 1 title(s)

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
tv · Writer · ★ 7.9

1992 1 title(s)

Martin
tv · Writer, Story, Creator · ★ 7.5

1994 1 title(s)

Ellen
tv · as Glenn · ★ 6.1

1996 2 title(s)

2007 1 title(s)

Heckler
movie · as Self · ★ 5.9

2014 1 title(s)

Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike
movie · as Self · ★ 8.5