Screenwriters from North Carolina

American film director, producer and actor (1881–1959)

American writer and novelist

American actor and comedian

Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer, often credited as the Duffer Brothers, are both American film and television show makers. The brothers are identical twins and work on all their projects as a pair. They are best known as the creators, showrunners, and executive producers of the Netflix supernatural science fiction horror series Stranger Things (2016–2025), and have also written and directed the horror film Hidden (2015) and written and produced episodes of the Fox science fiction series Wayward Pines (2015–2016). The Duffer Brothers founded the production company Upside Down Pictures, which is in an overall deal with Netflix.

American screenwriter, director, and producer (born 1965)

American actor

American actor, comedian, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter

American writer (1945-2015)

American comedian, actor, writer and director

American screenwriter and film director (1878-1955)

American Baptist minister, lawyer, politician and white supremacist writer (1864–1946)

American writer

American playwright

American screenwriter and film producer (1964-2013)

American writer and film director

Iranian-American director and screenwriter (born 1975)

American comedian, writer and musician.

American political activist, screenwriter, and convicted fraudster (1890-1965)

American director and screenwriter

American actor (1949–2006)

American playwright, screenwriter, professor and author

American actor and comedian

Tony Award winner, screenwriter and United States Marine (1929-1989)

writer, actress and producer

American writer, producer and podcast host

American film director

American film director

American screenwriter, novelist (1942–2022)