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name: "Dennis Shryack"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dennis-shryack"
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imdb_id: "nm0795461"
tmdb_id: 53006
wikidata_id: "Q3023191"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "25 August 1936"
died: "14 September 2016"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:40:32.324059+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."
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# Dennis Shryack

## Identity

Dennis Shryack

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dennis-shryack
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dennis-shryack
- **IMDb ID:** nm0795461
- **TMDB ID:** 53006
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3023191
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Shryack, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3023191, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795461/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53006

Writer. Born 25 August 1936 in Duluth. Died 14 September 2016.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 25 August 1936, Duluth
- **Died:** 14 September 2016
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Shryack, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3023191, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795461/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53006

## Biography

Dennis Shryack (1936–2016) was an American screenwriter. Born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota, he began his career as a singer in the vocal quartet The Escorts before working in the mailroom at Universal Pictures. His first produced screenplay was the 1969 Western comedy *The Good Guys and the Bad Guys*, which he co-wrote and co-produced.

Shryack frequently collaborated with Michael Butler on six screenplays, including *The Gauntlet* (1977) and *Pale Rider* (1985), both directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. Other credits include *The Car* (1977), *Flashpoint* (1984), *Code of Silence* (1985), *Rent-a-Cop* (1987), *Hero and the Terror* (1988), *Turner & Hooch* (1989) and *Cadence* (1990). The *Turner & Hooch* script set a record sale price of $1 million for Touchstone Pictures at the time.

Later in his career Shryack worked as a literary agent and returned to Duluth, where he died in 2016.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Pale Rider* (1985), Fi1m 77, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/pale-rider.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *Aces 'N' Eights* (2008), Writer
- *Malevolent* (2002), Writer
- *Fifty/Fifty* (1993), Screenplay
- *Revenge on the Highway* (1992), Writer, Co-Producer
- *Run* (1991), Writer
- *Cadence* (1990), Screenplay
- *Turner & Hooch* (1989), Screenplay, Story
- *Hero and the Terror* (1988), Screenplay
- *Rent-a-Cop* (1987), Writer
- *Pale Rider* (1985), Screenplay — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/pale-rider.md)
- *Code of Silence* (1985), Screenplay
- *Flashpoint* (1984), Writer
- *Murder by Phone* (1982), Story, Screenplay
- *The Gauntlet* (1977), Writer
- *The Car* (1977), Screenplay, Story
- *The Good Guys and the Bad Guys* (1969), Writer, Producer

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