Clyde B. Phillips (born October 3, 1958) is a film producer, television writer, television producer, and novelist.
Career
For the 1970s, Phillips worked at
Bob Banner Associates, before starting Blue Hill Avenue Productions with a contract at
20th Century-Fox Television
20th Television (formerly 20th Century Fox Television, 20th Century-Fox Television, and TCF Television Productions, Inc.) is an American television production company that is a division of Disney Television Studios, part of The Walt Disney Compa ...
. In 1985, he worked on an unsold television pilot ''Northstar'' with friend Daniel Grodnik. In 1986, he started working at a job at
Columbia Pictures Television
Columbia Pictures Television, Inc. (abbreviated as CPT) was launched on May 6, 1974, by Columbia Pictures as an American television production and distribution studio. It is the second name of the Columbia Pictures television division Screen Gem ...
to produce their own projects.
Phillips joined the crew of the television drama ''
Dexter
Dexter may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Dexter, the main character of the American animated series ''Dexter's Laboratory'' that aired from 1996 to 2003
* Dexter, a fictional character in the British web series ''Diary of a Bad Man''
* Dexte ...
'' as a
showrunner
A showrunner (or colloquially a helmer) is the top-level executive producer of a television series production who has creative and management authority through combining the responsibilities of employer and, in comedy or dramas, typically also the ...
, executive producer and writer for the first season. He joined the crew after the pilot was already finished and he ended up reshooting some of the scenes and scrapping others. He was nominated for the
Edgar Award for Best Television Episode (Teleplay), for writing the episode "
Crocodile
Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant ...
". He returned as the showrunner, executive producer and writer for the next three seasons. Phillips and the writing staff were nominated for a