Ted Humphrey is an American television and film writer, producer and director. He is best known for his work on the CBS series ''
The Good Wife
''The Good Wife'' is an American legal and political drama television series that aired on CBS from September 22, 2009, to May 8, 2016. It focuses on Alicia Florrick, the wife of the Cook County State's Attorney, who returns to her career in l ...
,'' which was nominated for a
Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series in 2010, as well as the 2010 and 2011
Emmy Award for Best Drama Series.
In 2011, he was nominated for a
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Episodic Drama Writing for his script for the episode ''"Boom''," and was honored with the Voices of Courage and Conscience Award from the Muslim Public Affairs Council for the same script. ''
The Good Wife
''The Good Wife'' is an American legal and political drama television series that aired on CBS from September 22, 2009, to May 8, 2016. It focuses on Alicia Florrick, the wife of the Cook County State's Attorney, who returns to her career in l ...
'' also earned a Peabody Award and twice received the American Film Institute’s Award for Excellence in Film and Television.
Career
Humphrey began his career as a screenwriter, writing screenplays for various studios. His work as a television writer began with the science fiction/action comedy series ''
Now and Again
''Now and Again'' is an American science fiction comedy-drama television series created by Glenn Gordon Caron that aired from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the ...
'' in 1999. Early in his career, he wrote for several series, including the short-lived horror anthology ''
Night Vision (TV series)'' and the medical drama ''
Dr. Vegas
''Dr. Vegas'' is an American drama television series created by John Herzfeld and Jack Orman, starring Rob Lowe and Joe Pantoliano that ran on CBS from September 24, 2004 to September 6, 2006. It aired in Ireland on TG4, and on Challenge in th ...
.'' He also wrote the teleplay and co-wrote the story for the television movie thriller ''
The Triangle'' in 2001.
In 2006 Humphrey joined the staff of the drama series ''The Nine,'' and in 2007 he became a producer and writer for the CBS legal drama ''
Shark
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.'' He also wrote and produced for the action drama series ''
The Unit
''The Unit'' is an American action-drama television series created by David Mamet that aired on CBS from March 7, 2006, to May 10, 2009 with the total of four seasons and 69 episodes. The series focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled ...
''.
In 2009, Humphrey wrote the feature film "
The Code," which was released in the United States under the title "
Thick as Thieves". The film starred
Morgan Freeman and
Antonio Banderas.
Also in 2009, he joined the staff of the new legal drama ''
The Good Wife
''The Good Wife'' is an American legal and political drama television series that aired on CBS from September 22, 2009, to May 8, 2016. It focuses on Alicia Florrick, the wife of the Cook County State's Attorney, who returns to her career in l ...
,''
and would go on to produce 135 episodes of the series, writing or co-writing 19 of them. He also directed the season six episode "''The Deconstruction."''
Humphrey was executive producer/showrunner of the 2016
Syfy series ''
Incorporated'' and created the 2017
CBS
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drama ''
Wisdom of the Crowd
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''.
He then developed for television and serves as Executive Producer and Showrunner of the Netflix series
''The Lincoln Lawyer'', based on the novels by
Michael Connelly
Michael Joseph Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller.
Connelly is the bes ...
.
References
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Living people
American television producers
American television writers
American male screenwriters
American male television writers
Western Reserve Academy alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)