---
name: "Jeff Maguire"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jeff-maguire"
fi1m_id: "jeff-maguire"
imdb_id: "nm0536587"
tmdb_id: 57546
wikidata_id: "Q6174419"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T23:14:29.402681+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."
---

# Jeff Maguire

## Identity

Jeff Maguire

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jeff-maguire
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jeff-maguire
- **IMDb ID:** nm0536587
- **TMDB ID:** 57546
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6174419
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Maguire, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6174419, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0536587/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57546

Writer. Born 1 January 1952 in United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1952, United States
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Maguire, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6174419, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0536587/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57546

## 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).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *In the Line of Fire* (1993), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/in-the-line-of-fire.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *Gridiron Gang* (2006), Writer
- *Timeline* (2003), Screenplay
- *In the Line of Fire* (1993), Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/in-the-line-of-fire.md)
- *Escape to Victory* (1981), Story

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1994: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *In the Line of Fire*

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

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