Graham Yost

Graham John Yost 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 and Silo.

Early life, family and education

Yost was born in Etobicoke in the Toronto metropolitan area. 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 graduated from the University of Toronto Schools and Trinity College at the University of Toronto.

Career

Yost wrote for the TV sitcom Herman's Head and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. In 2002, he created the television drama series Boomtown. He created the short-lived NBC drama Raines. Yost teamed 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 (miniseries)|The Pacific].
Yost is the creator and executive producer of the FX series Justified which premiered in 2010. He was an executive producer on the FX show The Americans which ran from 2013 to 2018. In 2014, Yost was attached to an adaptation of the Alex Kershaw book Avenue of Spies for WGN America. In 2016, he took over as head writer and executive producer of the Amazon Studios series Sneaky Pete.
In May 2021, Apple TV+ announced that Yost would serve as showrunner and executive producer for the science fiction series Silo based on the dystopian book series of the same name by Hugh Howey.

Awards and nominations

Yost won two Emmy Awards for his involvement in the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and The Pacific, which was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He also won a Golden Globe for his work on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, for which he was one of the writers.

Personal life

Graham Yost is married to Connie F. Yost.

Filmography

Film writer

TV series

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Creator	Producer	Notes
1989–1991	Hey Dude					13 episodes
1991	Herman's Head					Episode "The Last Boy Scout"
1992–1993	The Powers That Be					4 episodes
1998	From the Earth to [the Moon (miniseries)\|From the Earth to the Moon]					Wrote 2 episodes; Directed episode "Spider"
1998	L.A. Doctors					Episode "Whither Thou Goest"
2001	Band of Brothers					2 episodes
2002–2003	Boomtown					Wrote 6 episodes
2004	Summerland					Episode "Skipping School"
2007	Raines					Wrote episode "Pilot"
2010	The Pacific					Wrote and directed episode "Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika"
2010–2015	Justified					Wrote 12 episodes
2011	Falling Skies					Wrote episode "The Armory"
2013–2018	The Americans
2015–2018	Sneaky Pete					Wrote 7 episodes
2022–present	Slow Horses
2023–present	Silo					Wrote 3 episodes
2023	Justified: City Primeval
2024	Masters of the Air

TV movies

Year	Title	Writer	Executive Producer
2002	Young Arthur
2006	Sixty Minute Man
2014	Wild Blue