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Henry Gilroy
American screenwriter and producer (born 1976)
Henry Alan Gilroy is an American film and television screenwriter and producer. He is best known for co-writing the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
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| Born | Henry Alan Gilroy = Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1992–present |
From an early age, Gilroy loved comic books and animation which inspired him to study film at several colleges in the greater Los Angeles area.[1]
His first job at a Hollywood studio was working as an editor for Warner Bros.' animation department working Steven Spielberg's Tiny Toon Adventures.[1] It was at Warner Bros. that Gilroy sold his first script to the producers of the Emmy winning Batman: The Animated Series, for the Scarecrow episode, "Nothing to Fear". After a staff writer gig on the WB's Tazmanian Devil animated series, Tazmania, Gilroy moved on to work on The Tick animated series before taking a staff job at Disney Television Animation for several years where he worked on such series as Timon & Pumbaa, Mickey Mouse Works, House of Mouse, Lilo & Stitch: The Series and Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! before being chosen to develop and write the Star Wars: The Clone Wars CG animated series for Lucasfilm Animation with creator George Lucas and director Dave Filoni. He served as head writer for season one and part of season two, penning several episodes,[2] including the first stories featuring fan favorite character Ahsoka Tano, among others. He is also the author of several Star Wars comic books.[3]
Leaving Lucasfilm, Gilroy spent two years at Hasbro Studios, where he developed and led the writing on two other animated series, G.I. Joe: Renegades and Kaijudo, and then moved on to Marvel Animation Studios where he acted as supervising producer and head writer on Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. and Ultimate Spider-Man as well as penning two CG Marvel Heroes United films featuring team-ups with Iron Man & the Hulk[4] and Iron Man & Captain America.
Gilroy is co-creator of the first Bionicle trilogy and has since written for numerous other animated series, such as The Mask, Justice League Unlimited, The 99, Kim Possible, and the direct-to-video Disney movie title Atlantis: Milo's Return and the Funimation anime film Mass Effect: Paragon Lost based on the hit video game for Electronic Arts and BioWare.[5]
Gilroy wrote the four-issue Joker/Mask comic book which was collected by Dark Horse/DC Comics in 2001.[6] He also wrote the Dark Horse Alien one-shot comic books, Aliens: Herk Mondo and Aliens: Mondo Heat in collaboration with artist and Pixar director Ronnie del Carmen.[7]
In 2014, Gilroy returned to Lucasfilm under Disney studios to serve as co-executive producer and series writer of Star Wars: Rebels where he wrote seventeen episodes through 2018.[8]
In 2019, Gilroy was selected as the showrunner/head writer for an animated Magic: The Gathering TV show for Netflix with the Russo Brothers.[9]
In 2020, Gilroy began working on DreamWorks Dragons: The Nine Realms, an animated television series for DreamWorks Animation.[10]
Television
| Year | Title | Credit(s) | Notes |
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| 2002 | Mickey's House of Villains | ||
| 2003 | Atlantis: Milo’s Return | ||
| 2003 | Bionicle: Mask of Light | ||
| 2004 | Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui | ||
| 2005 | Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows | ||
| 2008 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | ||
| 2012 | Mass Effect: Paragon Lost | ||
| 2013–2014 | Heroes United |
- "An Interview with Star Wars: The Clone Wars Screenwriter and TV Series Writer Henry Gilroy". Galactic Binder. Archived from the original on November 26, 2018. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- "Henry Gilroy and Dave Filoni". TheForce.Net. Archived from the original on February 14, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- Furey, Emmett (August 13, 2008). "Send in the Clones: Gilroy talks "Clone Wars" Comics". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on June 11, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- Greenberger, Robert (December 11, 2013). "Win a Copy of Marvel's Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United". ComicMix. Archived from the original on October 22, 2015. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- Hilliard, Kyle (July 13, 2012). "Mass Effect 3 Anime Prequel Gets A Trailer". Game Informer. Archived from the original on August 21, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- Erdmann, Kevin (April 11, 2020). "Joker's Crossover With THE MASK is An Absolute Nightmare". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
- Robertson, Jeff (December 30, 2021). "Alien's Most Hilarious Xenomorph Hunter Came From Two Animation Titans". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on December 31, 2021. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
- "Henry Gilroy". Television Academy. Archived from the original on February 27, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- Goldberg, Lesley (June 3, 2019). "'Magic: The Gathering' TV Series a Go at Netflix With the Russo Brothers". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on June 3, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- "DreamWorks Animation Drops 'Dragons: The Nine Realms' Teaser". Animation World Network. October 13, 2021. Archived from the original on October 13, 2021. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
- Henry Gilroy at IMDb
- Star Wars: Clone Wars Interview with Henry Gilroy Archived December 29, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. GalacticBinder. Retrieved on October 30, 2008.