Biography
Jeff Maguire is an American screenwriter. A graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, he was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. His earliest credited work was the story for the sports film Escape to Victory (1981), directed by John Huston.
Maguire is best known for writing In the Line of Fire (1993), directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Clint Eastwood. The screenplay earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He later wrote the screenplays for Timeline (2003) and Gridiron Gang (2006).
