- Born
- Birth nameGraham John Yost
- Born in Etobicoke, Ontario, Graham Yost was the son of popular Canadian broadcaster Elwy Yost. He started out as a writer on shows like children's cowboy caper "Hey Dude" (Nickelodeon, 1989-1991) and high-concept sitcom "Herman's Head" (Fox 1991-94) before his script for an action thriller called "Speed" turned into an enormous hit, Yost would follow up with "Broken Arrow" (1996), and "Hard Rain" (1998).
Along with his big-screen work, Yost returned to TV as the supervising producer and writer (and also director, for one episode) of the Ron Howard-produced miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon" (HBO 1998).
Yost then wound down his film career following "Mission To Mars" (2000), gravitating back towards television as a writer and executive producer on shows, such as the ambitious procedural crime drama "Boomtown" (NBC 2002-03), the quirky detective comedy-drama "Raines" (NBC 2007).
Those shows did not last, but the critical success of the World War II drama "The Pacific" (HBO 2010), the alien-invasion drama "Falling Skies" (TNT 2011), the Cold War spy drama "The Americans" (FX 2013-2018), and the Elmore Leonard revenge drama "Justified" established Yost as a successful writer-producer.
- IMDb mini biography by: P.H. Noris
- Children
- ParentsRagnhild Melby
- RelativesChristopher Yost(Sibling)Elwy Honderich Yost(Grandparent)Annie Josephine McMurran(Grandparent)
- Often casts Matt Craven
- He once arrived at school with a note from his father Elwy Yost explaining that "Graham is late for school because I had him stay up late to watch Citizen Kane (1941)."
- Son of Elwy Yost.
- Everything I do in my work is an homage to my dad. He always impressed on me the value of taking an idea and turning it on its head and finding something different. My dad was obsessed by that. His favorite moments in movies were moments that were surprising, and yet felt incredibly satisfying. Or incredibly heartbreaking. So, for both my brother and I, whenever we see movies we see them through the lenses that our father gave us.
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