Ebbe Roe Smith

EBBE ROE SMITH

A Navy Brat, born in San Diego, California, he lived in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Mare Island, California, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, Arlington, Virginia and Pensacola, Florida before the family moved to Los Angeles where he attended Junior High, High School and two years of Junior College. In Junior High, he began acting. In 1970 he moved to San Francisco and went to S.F. State, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in theater and began to write.

He spent three years acting in New York theater, before he moved back to Los Angeles and continued to act, in television, film and stage and to write stage plays.

In the late 80’s he turned to screenwriting. He continued to work as a writer in Hollywood, doctoring scripts, adapting material and writing originals. In the early 2000’s, he moved with his family to Portland, Oregon where he returned to writing and acting for the stage and writing novels.

His plays include The Sisters in Their Sorrow, How Much Would Chuck?, The Hand Behind The Face, The Politic Thing, Number Three, Day of the Docent and adaptations of Gilgamesh, The Jungle Book, and Oedeipus Rex.

His screen plays include Car 54, Where Are You?, Partners (Academy Award nomination for best live action short), Falling Down (Edgar award for screenwriting), The Start Over, Cook, Headshot, Spoiled Rotten, Divorce Dick, Someone Somewhere, Self Made and adaptations of Hit #29 (adapted from Killer), Manplus, Sweet Smell of Success, The Searchers, Dreaming of Babylon, and Mockingbird. He also participated, uncredited, in the films Nick Of Time, Mad City and U.S. Marshals.

His novels include Pro Bono, Warp Point, The Middle People and Spooky Maximum. He has recently completed a book of short stories, Day After Tomorrow.

He can be seen on Portlandia as half of a swinger couple.