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name: "Douglas Day Stewart"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/douglas-day-stewart"
fi1m_id: "douglas-day-stewart"
imdb_id: "nm0829343"
tmdb_id: 27538
wikidata_id: "Q1252187"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 58
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T17:35:39.032672+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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# Douglas Day Stewart

## Identity

Douglas Day Stewart

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/douglas-day-stewart
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** douglas-day-stewart
- **IMDb ID:** nm0829343
- **TMDB ID:** 27538
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1252187
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Day_Stewart, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1252187, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0829343/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27538

Writer. Born 1 January 1940 in United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1940, United States
- **Active:** 1959–1982
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 58, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Day_Stewart, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1252187, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0829343/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27538

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*An Officer and a Gentleman*](https://film.one/film/an-officer-and-a-gentleman.md) (70)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Blue Lagoon*](https://film.one/film/the-blue-lagoon.md) (46)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Douglas Day Stewart is an American screenwriter and film director. He was born on 1 January 1940 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 1962. After serving as a naval officer from 1962 to 1965, including duty during the Vietnam War, he earned an M.A. from Northwestern University in radio, television and film.

Stewart began his career writing for television series including *Room 222*, *Bonanza* and *Cannon*, and television films such as *The Boy in the Plastic Bubble* (1976). His feature screenplays include *The Blue Lagoon* (1980) and *An Officer and a Gentleman* (1982), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and also served as producer. He later wrote and directed *Thief of Hearts* (1984) and *Listen to Me* (1989), and wrote the screenplay for *The Scarlet Letter* (1995).

*Sources: douglasdaystewart.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *An Officer and a Gentleman* (1982), Fi1m 70, Writer, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/an-officer-and-a-gentleman.md)
- *The Blue Lagoon* (1980), Fi1m 46, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-blue-lagoon.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *What About Love* (2024), Writer
- *Silver Strand* (1995), Writer
- *The Scarlet Letter* (1995), Screenplay
- *Listen to Me* (1989), Director, Writer
- *Thief of Hearts* (1984), Director, Writer
- *An Officer and a Gentleman* (1982), Associate Producer, Writer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/an-officer-and-a-gentleman.md)
- *The Blue Lagoon* (1980), Writer — Fi1m 46, [page](https://film.one/film/the-blue-lagoon.md)
- *The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II* (1978), Writer
- *The Boy in the Plastic Bubble* (1976), Writer, Teleplay, Story
- *Gone with the West* (1975), Writer
- *The Last Survivors* (1975), Writer
- *The White Dawn* (1974), Editor
- *Murder or Mercy* (1974), Writer
- *The Man Who Could Talk to Kids* (1973), Writer
- *Cannon* (1971), series, Writer
- *The Psychiatrist* (1971), series, Director
- *Room 222* (1969), series, Writer
- *Bonanza* (1959), series, Writer
- *An Officer and a Gentleman Remake*, Original Film Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1983: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *An Officer and a Gentleman*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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