Ken Hixon

Ken Hixon is an American screenwriter, best known for films including Welcome to the Rileys, City by the Sea and Inventing the Abbotts.[1][2] He is married to Melanie Otey and has two children: Lillian and Samuel Hixon. His son, Sam, is a filmmaker.

Early life

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Hixon studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. His classmates included Anna Deavere Smith, Gregory Itzin, M. C. Gainey and Harry Hamlin.

Career

Hixon was a stage actor who worked in regional theatre prior to his move to Los Angeles, where his roles in film and television included appearances in George A. Romero's Knightriders (1981), Bitter Harvest (1981), and The Hollywood Knights (1980).

He later gained work as a screenwriter. Other films included Incident at Deception Ridge (1994), Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987), and Grandview, U.S.A. (1984). Two of his television films, Secret Sins of the Father (1994) and Caught in the Act (1993), were nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America.[3] City by the Sea was adapted from the article Mark of a Murderer (1997) in Esquire, written by Michael McAlary.[4] In 2019, he co-wrote the heist thriller Finding Steve McQueen, based on the United California Bank robbery.[5]

References
  1. Maslin, Janet (4 April 1997). "Inventing the Abbotts". New York Times.
  2. "Movies". The New York Times.
  3. "EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD BEST TV FEATURE OR MINISERIES | Cozy Mystery List".
  4. Denis Hamill (28 August 2002). "2 Killers and the man in the middle - L.I lawman, subject of new film, wrestles with family legacy". New York Daily News. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  5. Mancuso, Vinnie (February 25, 2019). "'Finding Steve McQueen' Trailer Pulls Off a Presidential Bank Heist". Collider. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
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