Lowell Ganz is an American screenwriter, television writer, and television producer.
Background
Lowell Ganz was born on August 31, 1948 in New York City, New York, United States. Son of Irving and Jean (Farber) Ganz. Both of his parents were first-generation Americans born in New York. His mother's family is of Polish Jewish origin from the BiaĆystok area; his father's family is of Hungarian Jewish origin from Maramaros County, in what is today northern Romania. Ganz grew up in Queens, New York.
Education
Lowell attended Queens College, City University of New York, where he and his friend Mark Rothman wrote several comedic skits and shows for school productions.
Career
Lowell worked as an adjunct professor of graduate film screening at University of Southern California. Since1974 he wrote for a string of television situation comedies in Holywood. Ganz and Rothman (his friend from college) were writing partners, but their TV writing partnership dissolved after studio executives broke up the pair circa 1981. Ganz met his new writing partner, Babaloo Mandel, at The Comedy Store, shortly thereafter; and they made the jump to writing for films.
Ganz also directed the episodes of television shows, including "Makin' It" (ABC, 1979), "Joanie Loves Chachi" (ABC, 1982-1983), and for "Angie, The Bad News Bears", and "Brothers and Sisters", all 1979. He has appeared on screen in "Splash" (Buena Vista, 1984), "Parenthood" (Universal, 1989) and in the television documentary "Naked Hollywood" (Arts and Entertainment, 1991). He was producer and executive producer of a number of television shows, including "Laveme and Shirley", "Foul Play", etc.
Ganz is also widely used as Hollywood script doctor, known for his reliability and fast turnaround time.
Interests
Sport & Clubs
baseball, New York Mets
Connections
Lowell married Jeanne Russo on December 26, 1976. Ganz lives in Los Angeles with his wife of more than 30 years. They have three children - Scott, Allie, and Simon - all working in entertainment.