Graham Yost
An image from The Last Castle, one of the productions that also features Graham Yost.
Graham Yost

Graham Yost

September 5, 1959 — Etobicoke, Greater Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Graham John Yost (born September 5, 1959) is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His best-known works are the films Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain and the TV series Justified. In 2002, he created the widely acclaimed, yet short-lived drama series Boomtown.

He has also written for the television series Herman's Head and Band of Brothers. He also created the short-lived NBC drama Raines. Yost teamed up with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow Boomtown writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries The Pacific. As of 2010, Yost is the creator and executive producer of the series Justified, which premiered on FX in March 2010.

Born in Etobicoke, he is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost, the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies. He lives in California with his family.

Speed

Speed

1994

Band of Brothers

Band of Brothers

2001

The Pacific

The Pacific

2010

The Last Castle

The Last Castle

2001

Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow

1996

Mission to Mars

Mission to Mars

2000

Falling Skies

Falling Skies

2011

Silo

Silo

2023