ELIASON, Joyce 1934–

PERSONAL

Born May 14, 1934, in Manti, UT; daughter of Perry Carlton (a rancher) and Ada (maiden name, Jensen) Eliason; married Allan Dotson, April, 1955 (divorced, 1962); married Stuart Margolin (an actor and director), August 5, 1966 (divorced April 9, 1975); children: (first marriage) Polly, Jill. Education: Attended University of Utah.

Addresses: Agent—Cindy Mintz, International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211.

Career: Writer and producer. TV Guide, field editor in Salt Lake City, UT, and Los Angeles, between 1959 and 1976. Pasadena Playhouse Repertory Company, Pasadena, CA, actress, 1965–66.

Member: Writers Guild of America, Authors Guild, Authors League of America.

Awards, Honors: Emmy Award nominations (with others), outstanding miniseries, 1993, for The Jacksons: An American Dream, 1994, for Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, 1995, for Children of the Dust, and 1997, for The Last Don.

CREDITS

Television Work; Series:

Creator and executive producer, Angel Falls, CBS, 1993.

Television Executive Producer; Miniseries:

The Jacksons: An American Dream, ABC, 1992.

Children of the Dust (also known as A Good Day to Die), CBS, 1995.

The Last Don (also known as Mario Puzo's "The Last Don"), CBS, 1997.

The Last Don II (also known as Mario Puzo's "The Last Don II"), CBS, 1998.

Television Producer; Miniseries:

Supervising producer, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, CBS, 1994.

Television Executive Producer; Movies:

Shadows of Desire (also known as The Devil's Bed), CBS, 1994.

A Loss of Innocence (also known as The End of Eden), ABC, 1996.

Sweet Temptation (also known as Sweet Mouthful), CBS, 1996.

The Price of Heaven (also known as Blessed Assurance; based on a novel by Allan Gurganus), CBS, 1997.

Blessings, CBS, 2003.

A Very Married Christmas (also known as Say When), CBS, 2004.

Television Work; Movies:

Creative consultant, Marilyn: The Untold Story, 1980.

Supervising producer, Mistress, CBS, 1987.

Coproducer, Babycakes, CBS, 1989.

Supervising producer, In Sickness and in Health (also known as Hearts on Fire), CBS, 1992.

Television Work; Pilots:

Supervising producer, To Save a Child (also known as The Craft), ABC, 1991.

Coproducer of Mulholland Dr. (also known as Mulholland Drive), ABC, a pilot which later became the film of the same name.

Film Work:

Coproducer, Mulholland Dr. (also known as Mulholland Drive), Universal Focus, 2001.

WRITINGS

Teleplays with Others; Series:

Love, American Style, ABC, c. 1969–74.

James at 15 (also known as James at 16), NBC, 1977–78.

Angel Falls, CBS, 1993.

Teleplays; Miniseries:

Elvis and Me (based on the book by Priscilla Presley and Sandra Harmon), ABC, 1988.

Small Sacrifices (based on the book by Ann Rule), ABC, 1989.

The Jacksons: An American Dream, ABC, 1992.

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (based on the novel by Allan Gurganus), CBS, 1994.

Children of the Dust (also known as A Good Day to Die; based on a novel by Clancy Carlile), CBS, 1995.

(With Ross LaManna) Titanic, CBS, 1996.

(With others) The Last Don (also known as Mario Puzo's "The Last Don"; based on the novel by Mario Puzo), CBS, 1997.

(With others) The Last Don II (also known as Mario Puzo's "The Last Don II"; based on characters Mario Puzo created for the novel The Last Don), CBS, 1998.

Blonde (also known as Marilyn Monroe; based on the book by Joyce Carol Oates), CBS, 2001.

Teleplays; Movies:

Child Bride of Short Creek, NBC, 1981.

(With Joseph Feury and Mary Beth Yarrow) A Matter of Sex, NBC, 1984.

Right to Kill?, ABC, 1985, published by Warner Bros., 1985.

Surviving (also known as Surviving: A Family in Crisis and Tragedy), ABC, 1985, also published.

Mistress, CBS, 1987.

Winnie (based on a book by Jaime Pastor Bolnick), NBC, 1988.

(With Percy Adlon) Babycakes, CBS, 1989.

(With Alan Hines) In Sickness and in Health (also known as Hearts on Fire), CBS, 1992.

Shadows of Desire (also known as The Devil's Bed), CBS, 1994.

A Loss of Innocence (also known as The End of Eden; based on On This Star by Virginia Sorenson), ABC, 1996.

Sweet Temptation (also known as Sweet Mouthful), CBS, 1996.

The Price of Heaven (also known as Blessed Assurance), CBS, 1997.

Amy & Isabelle (also known as Oprah Winfrey Presents: "Amy and Isabelle"; based on the novel by Elizabeth Strout), ABC, 2001.

(With Peter Silverman and Nancy Dalton Silverman) We Were the Mulvaneys (based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates), Lifetime, 2002.

Blessings (based on the novel by Anna Quindlen), CBS, 2003.

Open House (based on the novel by Elizabeth Berg), CBS, 2003.

Gracie's Choice (based on a magazine article by Rena Dictor LeBlanc), Lifetime, 2004.

A Very Married Christmas (also known as Say When; based on a novel by Elizabeth Berg), CBS, 2004.

"Riding the Bus with My Sister" (based on the book by Rachel Simon), Hallmark Hall of Fame, CBS, 2005.

Teleplays; Pilots:

To Save a Child (also known as The Craft), ABC, 1991.

Screenplays:

Tell Me a Riddle, Filmways, 1980.

Some sources cite Eliason as the author of the screenplay for Lady Beware, Scotti Brothers Pictures, 1987.

Novels:

Fresh Meat/Warm Weather, Harper & Row, 1974.

Laid Out, Harper & Row, 1976.

Contributor to periodicals, including New Dawn.