Phil Savath

Phil Savath (December 28, 1946 - November 3, 2004) was an American-born Canadian film and television writer and producer. He was most noted as a two-time Genie Award nominee for Best Screenplay, with nominations for Original Screenplay at the 4th Genie Awards in 1983 for Big Meat Eater^[1] and Adapted Screenplay at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989 for The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick.^[2]

His other film credits included Fast Company, Samuel Lount,^[3] and Terminal City Ricochet.^[4]

In television, he was a cocreator and star of the CBC Television children's comedy series Homemade TV and Range Ryder and the Calgary Kid in the 1970s.^[5] He later wrote several episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210,^[6] co-created the television series Max Glick with Stephen Foster and These Arms of Mine with his wife Susan Duligal,^[7] and cowrote the television films Net Worth^[8] and Little Criminals.^[9]