Ann Marcus


Ann Marcus was an Emmy Award-winning American television writer and film producer.
She graduated from Western College for Women, worked for the New York Daily News and Life, where she worked with famed photographers such as Alfred Eisenstadt. In 2007, she was executive producer of the independent feature film, For Heaven's Sake.

Television writing credits

Marcus was elected to the Board of Directors of the WGAe seven times and served as Secretary/treasurer from 1992–94. She published her memoir, Whistling Girl in 1999.

Family

She and her husband, Ellis Marcus, also a television writer, had three children.

Death

On December 3, 2014, Ann Marcus died in Sherman Oaks, California at the age of 93, from bladder cancer.

Awards and nominations

Nominated for multiple Daytime Emmys and Primetime Emmys. Her first Daytime Emmy nomination was in 1978 for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Marcus was also presented with the Morgan Cox Award for distinguished service to the WGA in 2000.

Head Writing Tenure