---
name: "Heywood Gould"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/heywood-gould"
fi1m_id: "heywood-gould"
imdb_id: "nm0332392"
tmdb_id: 53387
wikidata_id: "Q3135104"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "19 December 1942"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 47
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T20:21:18.431865+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."
---

# Heywood Gould

## Identity

Heywood Gould

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/heywood-gould
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** heywood-gould
- **IMDb ID:** nm0332392
- **TMDB ID:** 53387
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3135104
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heywood_Gould, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3135104, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0332392/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53387

Writer. Born 19 December 1942 in The Bronx, New York City, New York.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 19 December 1942, The Bronx, New York City, New York
- **Active:** 1981–1988
- **Average Fi1m score:** 47, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heywood_Gould, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3135104, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0332392/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53387

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Cocktail*](https://film.one/film/cocktail.md) (38)

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

## Biography

Heywood Gould is an American screenwriter, novelist, journalist and film director. Born in the Bronx and raised in Brooklyn, he began his career as a reporter for the New York Post.

He wrote the screenplays for *Rolling Thunder* (1977), *The Boys from Brazil* (1978), *Fort Apache, the Bronx* (1981), *Streets of Gold* (1986) and *Cocktail* (1988). Gould has also directed films including *One Good Cop* (1991), *Trial by Jury* (1994), *Mistrial* (1996) and *Double Bang* (2001), and has published numerous novels.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Cocktail* (1988), Fi1m 38, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/cocktail.md)
- *Fort Apache, the Bronx* (1981), Fi1m 56, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/fort-apache-the-bronx.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Double Bang* (2001), Director, Writer
- *Mistrial* (1996), Director, Writer
- *Trial by Jury* (1994), Screenplay, Director
- *One Good Cop* (1991), Director, Writer
- *Cocktail* (1988), Screenplay — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/cocktail.md)
- *Streets of Gold* (1986), Screenplay
- *The Equalizer* (1985), series, Producer, Writer, Teleplay
- *Fort Apache, the Bronx* (1981), Writer — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/fort-apache-the-bronx.md)
- *The Boys from Brazil* (1978), Screenplay
- *Rolling Thunder* (1977), Screenplay
- *Dog and Cat* (1977), Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay 1989: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay (won), for *Cocktail*

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

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