Harley Peyton

Harley Peyton is an American screenwriter and television producer.^[1] He worked in both capacities on Twin Peaks and was nominated for the 1990 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series for his work on the series' third episode.

Biography

He went to Harvard and Stanford.^[2]

Peyton began, working on feature films in the 1980s and 1990s. He performed rewrites on several studio productions, and adapted the Dave Robicheaux novel Heaven's Prisoners by James Lee Burke into a 1996 feature film. 2009's In the Electric Mist, also featuring Robicheaux (albeit played by Tommy Lee Jones), acted as a sequel, but Peyton was not involved.

Peyton also expanded into television in the 1990s, writing and creating series such as Moon Over Miami and Route 66. Other series Peyton has worked on include Dracula, Reign and Dominion. He scripted the superhero series Three Inches for Syfy, but it was never ordered to series.^[3] In 2021, he created Reginald the Vampire for Syfy. It has been renewed for a second series.^[4]

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Credit	Notes
1987	Less than Zero	Screenplay By
1991	Danger Team	Writer	Television Movie
1993	The Three Musketeers	Screenplay By	Uncredited Revision
1996	Bullet Hearts	Executive Producer	Television Movie
	Heaven's Prisoners	Screenplay By	Co-Wrote Screenplay with Scott Frank
1997	Keys to Tulsa	Writer, Producer, Second Unit Director
	Gold Coast[5]	Screenplay By	Television Movie
2001	Bandits	Writer, Executive Producer
2004	Catwoman	Screenplay By	Uncredited Revision
2011	Friends with Benefits	Story By	Co-Wrote Story with Keith Merryman and David A. Newman
	Three Inches	Executive Producer	Television Movie
2016	JL Ranch	Written By	Television Movie

Television

Year	TV Series	Credit	Notes
1990-91	Twin Peaks	Writer, Producer
1993	Route 66	Creator, Co-Executive Producer
	Moon Over Miami	Creator, Writer, Executive Producer
2007	The Bronx is Burning	Writer	Episode "The Straw"
2012-13	Wedding Band	Writer, Consulting Producer
2013-14	Dracula	Writer, Co-Executive Producer
2014-15	Reign	Writer, Executive Producer
2015	Dominion	Writer	Episode "The Longest Mile Home"
2016	Dark Matter	Writer	Episode "She's One of Them Now"
2016-18	Channel Zero	Writer, Executive Producer
2019-20	Project Blue Book	Writer, Co-Executive Producer
2021–24	Chucky	Writer, Executive Producer
2021–24	Reginald the Vampire	Creator, Writer, Executive Producer