Biography
James Toback is an American screenwriter and film director. Born in New York City on 23 November 1944, he graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1966 and later taught English at the City College of New York.
Toback wrote the screenplay for the 1974 film The Gambler and made his directorial debut with Fingers (1978). He wrote the screenplay for Bugsy (1991), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. His other directorial credits include The Pick-up Artist (1987), Two Girls and a Guy (1997) and Black and White (1999).
