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name: "Brian McKay"
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roles: ["Screenwriter"]
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updated: "2026-09-16T10:18:59.324734+00:00"
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# Brian McKay

Screenwriter.

## Details

- **Work:** Screenwriter

## Biography

Brian McKay is a writer whose credits include the screenplay for the 1971 film *McCabe & Mrs. Miller*, co-written with director Robert Altman and based on the novel by Edmund Naughton.

He contributed to numerous television series, writing episodes of *Charlie's Angels*, *Wonder Woman*, *Cagney & Lacey*, *Kojak* and *Fantasy Island*, among others. He also served as story editor on *Bonanza* and executive story consultant on *Wonder Woman*. McKay received a Writers Guild of America nomination for the *McCabe & Mrs. Miller* screenplay.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, web.archive.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *McCabe & Mrs. Miller* (1971), Fi1m 90, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/mccabe-and-mrs-miller.md)

## Also known for

- *Wonder Woman* (1975), Writer
- *Charlie's Angels* (1976), Teleplay, Writer
- *Kojak* (1973), Story
- *Cagney & Lacey* (1982), Writer

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