Robert
Gosnell
A professional screenwriter for more than twenty years, Robert Gosnell has produced credits in feature films, network television, syndicated television, basic and pay cable, and is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West, and the Writers Guild of Canada.
Robert began his career writing situation comedy as a staff writer for the ABC series Baby Makes Five. As a freelance writer, he wrote episodes for Too Close for Comfort and the TBS comedies Safe at Home and Rocky Road, and received a story assignment for The Ultimate Adventure Company, a series formerly in development at Universal Television, in tandem with Donald Belasario's "Belasarius Productions". In cable, he has scripted numerous projects for the Disney Channel, including Just Perfect, a Disney Channel movie featuring Jennie Garth. In 1998, he wrote the Showtime original movie, Escape from Wildcat Canyon, which starred Dennis Weaver and won the national "Parents Choice Award." Robert's feature credits include the Chuck Norris/Louis Gosset Jr. film Firewalker, an uncredited rewrite on the motion picture Number One With A Bullet starring Robert Carradine and Billy Dee Williams, and the sale of his original screenplay Kick And Kick Back to Cannon Films. Robert was also selected as a judge for the 1989 Cable Ace awards, in the Comedy Special category.
In 1990, Robert left Hollywood for Denver, where he became active in the local independent film community. His screenplay Tiger Street was produced by the Pagoda Group of Denver in 1998, and premiered on Showtime Extreme in August of 2003. In 1999, Denver's Inferno Film Productions, produced the action film Dragon and the Hawk from his script. In 2001, Robert co-wrote the screenplay for the independent feature Siren for Las Vegas company Stage Left Productions, which is currently in post-production.
With screenplay projects in development in Hollywood, Denver and Austin, Texas, Robert remains active in the entertainment industry. He is a principal member of the Denver production company "Conspiracy Films", is frequently an invited speaker for local writers clubs and organizations, and served on the faculty of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Conference in September, 2002. Robert regularly presents his screenwriting class "The Elements of Screenplay," along with advanced classes and workshops, in the Denver area.