O'Donnell, Lawrence 1951(?)–

(Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr.)

PERSONAL

Full name, Lawrence Francis O'Donnell, Jr.; born November 7, 1951 (some sources cite 1955), in Boston, MA; son of Lawrence Francis (an attorney) and Frances Marie (an office manager; maiden name, Buckley) O'Donnell; married Kathryn Hunter Harrold (an actress), 1994; children: Elizabeth Buckley Harrold. Education: Harvard University, B.A. (cum laude), 1976.

Addresses: Agent—Chris Silbermann, Broder/Webb/Chervin/Silbermann, 9242 Beverly Blvd., Suite 200, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

Career: Producer and writer. Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr. Productions, producer. O'Donnell, O'Donnell & O'Donnell (law firm), Quincy, MA, paralegal assistant, 1976–78; Office of U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, director of communications, 1988, senior advisor, 1989–92; U.S. Senate, chief of staff of Committee on Environment and Public Works, 1992, Democratic chief of staff of Committee on Finance, 1993–95. Also a public speaker.

Member: Authors Guild, Writers Guild of America, Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics.

Awards, Honors: Humanitas Prize (with others), sixty-minute category, Human Family Educational and Cultural Institute, 2000, and Writers Guild of America Award nomination (with others), episodic drama category, 2001, both for "Take This Sabbath Day," The West Wing; Writers Guild of America Award nomination (with others), episodic drama category, 2001, for "Enemies," The West Wing; Emmy Award (with others), outstanding drama series, 2001, and Writers Guild of America Award nomination (with others), outstanding dramatic series, 2006, both for The West Wing; honorary D.H.L., Suffolk University, 2001.

CREDITS

Television Work; Series:

Technical consultant, Feds, CBS, 1997.

Coproducer, The West Wing (also known as West Wing), NBC, 2000.

Producer, The West Wing (also known as West Wing), NBC, 2000–2001.

Supervising producer, First Monday, CBS, 2002.

Creator and executive producer, Mister Sterling, NBC, 2003.

Executive producer, The West Wing (also known as West Wing), NBC, 2005–2006.

Executive story editor for the series The West Wing (also known as West Wing), NBC.

Television Work; Movies:

Associate producer, A Case of Deadly Force, CBS, 1986.

Television Appearances; Series:

Senior political analyst, MSNBC Live (also known as MSNBC Dayside and MSNBC Right Now), MSNBC, beginning c. 1996.

Television Appearances; Movies:

(As Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr.) Judge Leggett, Mrs. Harris, HBO, 2005.

Television Appearances; Specials:

(As Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr.) Himself, Politics: A Pop Culture History, VH1, 2004.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Dr. Bartlet, "Two Cathedrals," The West Wing (also known as West Wing), NBC, 2001.

(As Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr.) Judge Franklin Brown, "Goodbye," The Practice, ABC, 2003.

While billed as Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr., appeared as Judge Calloway in "Privileged," an unaired episode of The Lyon's Den, NBC, 2003.

Television Guest Appearances; Episodic:

Scarborough Country, MSNBC, 2004.

Dennis Miller, CNBC, multiple appearances, 2004 and 2005.

The Al Franken Show, Sundance Channel, multiple appearances, 2005.

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (also known as The Late Late Show), CBS, 2005.

Weekends at the DL, Comedy Central, 2005.

Appeared in ABC News Nightline (also known as Nightline), ABC; The CBS Morning Show, CBS; Charlie Rose, PBS; Good Morning America (also known as GMA), ABC; The McLaughlin Group, PBS; and Today (also known as NBC News Today and The Today Show), NBC. Appeared in episodes of other series, including programs hosted by Phil Donahue and Larry King.

Television Appearances; Pilots:

(As Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr.) Lee Hatcher, Big Love, HBO, 2006.

Radio Appearances; Episodic:

Himself, The Al Franken Show, Air America Radio, multiple episodes in 2005.

WRITINGS

Teleplays; with Others; Series:

The West Wing (also known as West Wing), NBC, 2000, 2004–2005.

Mister Sterling, NBC, 2003.

Teleplays; with Others; Episodic:

"Right to Die," First Monday, CBS, 2002.

Several episodes of the television series The West Wing (also known as West Wing), NBC were based on stories by O'Donnell.

Teleplays; with Others; Pilots:

Mister Sterling, NBC, 2003.

Screenplays:

(With Paul Redford) The Crusaders (based on a book by Jack Greenberg), New Line Cinema, 2007.

Nonfiction:

Deadly Force: The Wrongful Death of James Bouden, Jr.; A True Story of How a Badge Can Become a License to Kill, William Morrow and Company, 1983.

Contributor to periodicals, including Boston, New York Times, and Vanity Fair.

ADAPTATIONS

The television movie A Case of Deadly Force was based on O'Donnell's book Deadly Force: The Wrongful Death of James Bouden, Jr.; A True Story of How a Badge Can Become a License to Kill.