Worley Thorne


Worley Thorne is an American screenwriter, television writer, script consultant and adjunct assistant professor of Composition, Critical Thinking and Screenwriting. Thorne's work as a writer encompasses hourlong television drama, and feature film scripts, in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, detective and mystery, legal drama, soap opera, medical drama, animal fiction and family drama.

Early life

Thorne was born in New York City New York, to Gerald Roscoe Thorne, a sometime model, Broadway chorus boy and salesman, and Teri Goldenberg Thorne, a chorus girl and garment samplemaker, who eventually rose through the ranks to become a ladies fashion designer. Gerald had been raised in Indiana by his parents, Dr. Roscoe Worley Thorne I, a physician and Methodist minister and Pearl Garner Thorne. Teri had been born, and spent her teen years in, Benedek-falva, Hungary, to Alexander Goldenberg, a designer-builder of monuments and the village's innkeeper, and Szerena Markovits Goldenberg, daughter of a Jewish rabbi.
Thorne was raised in the Bronx, where he attended the Bronx High School of Science, a school for gifted students. He graduated from the City University of New York City College, with a B.A. in English, and in May 2011, received his M.A. with Honors in English Literature from California State University Northridge. He is married to Patricia Ann Thorne, a poet who received her M.F.A in English from Antioch University Los Angeles in 2017. Thorne is currently teaching an Introduction to Literature and Critical Thinking and Composition courses at Los Angeles Valley College

Career

Thorne's work includes scripts for , The Paper Chase, Fantasy Island, Dallas, Barnaby Jones, Cannon, Charlie's Angels,The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, Doctors' Private Lives and others. He adapted a screenplay in English, based on a French original, titled "Albert's Piano," for Italian producer Marcello Danon Other feature film screenplays include "Swift, Silent Deadly" for Becker Productions and "Natural Affection," based on the play by William Inge, for Bassey Productions. His original screenplay "The Yankee," based in the American Revolution, was written for Becker Productions.
Thorne is a past Governor of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the body which determines and gives out Emmy Awards. He is an active member of the Writers Guild of America, west, was chairman of several Guild committees and involved in aiding in organization and supervision of past strikes by the union. Thorne taught screenwriting at Columbia College Hollywood, Los Angeles, for four years, and for several years was a publicist representing entertainment industry, corporate and political clients.

Credits

;Paramount Pictures
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;Lorimar Television
;ABC-TV
;CBS-TV
;NBC-TV