---
name: "Bettina Gilois"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bettina-gilois"
fi1m_id: "bettina-gilois"
imdb_id: "nm0319619"
tmdb_id: 60499
wikidata_id: "Q24808812"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "9 July 1961"
died: "5 July 2020"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T10:47:31.814914+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Bettina Gilois

## Identity

Bettina Gilois

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bettina-gilois
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bettina-gilois
- **IMDb ID:** nm0319619
- **TMDB ID:** 60499
- **Wikidata ID:** Q24808812
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettina_Gilois, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24808812, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319619/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60499

Writer. Born 9 July 1961 in Berlin, Germany. Died 5 July 2020.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 9 July 1961, Berlin, Germany
- **Died:** 5 July 2020
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettina_Gilois, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24808812, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319619/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60499

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*McFarland, USA*](https://film.one/film/mcfarland-usa.md) (72)

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## Biography

Bettina Gilois (1961–2020) was a German-American screenwriter and author. She graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University with a degree in art history in 1985 and began her writing career after working at Andy Warhol's Factory, initially with Joel Silver Productions.

Her screen credits include the story and screenplay for the Disney film *Glory Road* (2006), the screenplay for *McFarland, USA* (2015), and the screenplay for the HBO television film *Bessie* (2015). She also wrote *The Lost Wife of Robert Durst* (2017) and contributed to *A Million Miles Away* (2023) and *Mahalia* (2021). Gilois received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Television Movie for *Bessie* and NAACP Image Award nominations for her work on *Bessie* and *McFarland, USA*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, deadline.com, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *McFarland, USA* (2015), Fi1m 72, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/mcfarland-usa.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Million Miles Away* (2023), Screenplay
- *Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia* (2021), Story, Teleplay
- *The Lost Wife of Robert Durst* (2017), Screenplay
- *Bessie* (2015), Screenplay
- *McFarland, USA* (2015), Screenplay — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/mcfarland-usa.md)
- *Glory Road* (2006), Writer
- *Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole* (1992), Associate Producer

## Gallery

- ![Bettina Gilois at the album release party for "Muscle Shoals Small Town Big Sound" (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/3775603/gallery-4cbdcfdd07bf.jpg) Bettina Gilois at the album release party for "Muscle Shoals Small Town Big Sound" (2018) — bgilois, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Bettina_Gilois_2018.jpg/1280px-Bettina_Gilois_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bettina Gilois](https://film.one/media/person/3775603/gallery-8e9fbcb1df84.jpg) Bettina Gilois — bgilois, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Bettina_Gilois_Image_Awards_2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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