Jill Gurr
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Jill Gurr was an American script supervisor and activist.
As a script supervisor for more than two decades starting in the early 1980s, Gurr worked on films and TV shows including Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), Menace II Society (1993), and the 1997-98 syndicated series Conan the Adventurer.
She adapted a murder mystery by James Hadley Chase for Rigged (1986), starring George Kennedy, and wrote a 1988 installment of PBS' The Immortals that featured Ed Asner as Socrates. She had three books published as well.
Jill Gurr was an American script supervisor and activist.
As a script supervisor for more than two decades starting in the early 1980s, Gurr worked on films and TV shows including Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), Menace II Society (1993), and the 1997-98 syndicated series Conan the Adventurer.
She adapted a murder mystery by James Hadley Chase for Rigged (1986), starring George Kennedy, and wrote a 1988 installment of PBS' The Immortals that featured Ed Asner as Socrates. She had three books published as well.
At Optimist Youth Homes in Highland Park, Gurr taught a screenwriting workshop to 30 incarcerated teenage boys, and many them learned how to read and write through her classes. She then led a screenwriting workshop at another juvenile detention facility.
With a donation of $5,000 from screenwriter Leslie Stevens, creator of TV's The Outer Limits, she launched Write Now in October 1996. The organization, renamed Create Now two years later, expanded to include music, dance, culinary arts and fashion.
Gurr died January 13, 2022 in Hollywood, California. She was 71.
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