Michael McGreevey Crew Member of the Month

Michael McGreevey was born on 7th February 1948 in Phoenix Arizona and is the son of Emmy award winning screenwriter John McGreevery.

started his career as a child actor in 1957. He acted consistently throughout the 60s and 70s working on shows like Wagon Train,  Lassie, Dr Kildare, The Waltons and Charlie's Angels.

In the late 70s he also turned his hand to writing and worked on shows like Wonder Woman, The Incredible Hulk and  The Waltons.

In 1977 he married his wife Debra with whom he had 3 children.

In 1983 he wrote his first script for Fame on the season 3 episode "Break Dance". He then went on to write a further 9 episodes:


- Baby, Remember My Name (1987)

- Mr Wacky's World (1986)

- Hold That Baby (1986) 

- Judgement Day (1986)

- The Incident (1986) 

- Stagefright  (1986)                                                                                                                                              

- Bronco Bob Rides Again (1985)  

- Who Am I, Really? (1985)  

- Wishes (1985) 

 

                               

 

In addition he took on more and more responsibility with the show becoming a story editor, creative consultant and finally a producer.

 

In 1984, he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing in Children's Programming for co-writing the ABC Afterschool Special "The Celebrity and the Arcade Kid"

After Fame he continued working as a writer and producer and worked on shows like Star Trek Deep Space 9, Bonanza the Return, Born Free, Tarzan the Epic Adventures  and  A Gun, A Hat & A Horse. Michael also returned to acting and guest starred in Parks & Recreation  and A Lesson of Love.

 

When interviewed and asked about his writing career and which series he enjoyed the most he replied:

"Fame, by far. I started as a free-lance on one episode of Fame. I later became the story editor and then became the creative consultant--they kept moving me up. I ended up producing the show the last season. I did a total of four seasons on Fame. My background was in musical theater. It was like Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland--let's put on a show every week. And they were paying me all this money to do it. It was fun."