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James Costigan (March 31, 1926 – December 19, 2007) was an American television actor and Emmy Award-winning television screenwriter. His writing credits include the television movies Eleanor and Franklin and Love Among the Ruins.
He returned to screenwriting for television in the early 1970s. His 1970s work included A War of Children, written in 1972, which was about two families, one Roman Catholic and one Protestant, in Northern Ireland, whose long time friendship is threatened by sectarian violence.
He won a second Emmy Award for Love Among the Ruins, a 1975 television movie set in Edwardian England, which starred Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier. His third Emmy win was for Eleanor and Franklin (1976), a two-part, four-hour television drama focusing on the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
After the Roosevelt series, many of his subsequent screenplays for television and feature films were written under the name of Ivan Davis. He also began collaborating with other scenarists, including John Huston on the film adaptation of Thornton Wilder's novel Mr. North.
Death
James Costigan died on December 19, 2007, aged 81, at his home in Bainbridge Island, Washington, of heart failure.
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Categories: 1926 Births, 2007 Deaths, Television Writers From California, American Male Television Writers, American Male Television Actors, Male Actors From Los Angeles, Primetime Emmy Award Winners, Writers From Los Angeles, 20th-century American Male Actors, 20th-century American Screenwriters, 20th-century American Male Writers
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