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Henry Gilroy

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Henry Gilroy
Gilroy at the 2024 WonderCon
Born
Henry Alan Gilroy

Occupations
  • Author
  • screenwriter
  • producer
Years active1992–present

Henry Alan Gilroy is an American film and television screenwriter and producer. He is best known for co-writing the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Early life

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From an early age, Gilroy loved comic books and animation which inspired him to study film at several colleges in the greater Los Angeles area.[1]

Career

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His first job at a Hollywood studio was working as an editor for Warner Bros.' animation department working Steven Spielberg's Tiny Toon Adventures.[1] It was at Warner Bros. that Gilroy sold his first script to the producers of the Emmy winning Batman: The Animated Series, for the Scarecrow episode, "Nothing to Fear". After a staff writer gig on the WB's Tazmanian Devil animated series, Tazmania, Gilroy moved on to work on The Tick animated series before taking a staff job at Disney Television Animation for several years where he worked on such series as Timon & Pumbaa, Mickey Mouse Works, House of Mouse, Lilo & Stitch: The Series and Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! before being chosen to develop and write the Star Wars: The Clone Wars CG animated series for Lucasfilm Animation with creator George Lucas and director Dave Filoni. He served as head writer for season one and part of season two, penning several episodes,[2] including the first stories featuring fan favorite character Ahsoka Tano, among others. He is also the author of several Star Wars comic books.[3]

Leaving Lucasfilm, Gilroy spent two years at Hasbro Studios, where he developed and led the writing on two other animated series, G.I. Joe: Renegades and Kaijudo, and then moved on to Marvel Animation Studios where he acted as supervising producer and head writer on Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. and Ultimate Spider-Man as well as penning two CG Marvel Heroes United films featuring team-ups with Iron Man & the Hulk[4] and Iron Man & Captain America. Upon finishing series work on Hulk and Ultimate Spider-man, Gilroy teamed with frequent collaborator, Marty Isenberg to develop and co-write the pilot for The Guardians of the Galaxy animated series.

Gilroy is co-creator of the first Bionicle trilogy and has since written for numerous other animated series, such as The Mask, Justice League Unlimited, The 99, Kim Possible, and the direct-to-video Disney movie title Atlantis: Milo's Return and the Funimation anime film Mass Effect: Paragon Lost based on the hit video game for Electronic Arts and BioWare.[5]

Gilroy wrote the four-issue Joker/Mask comic book which was collected by Dark Horse/DC Comics in 2001.[6] He also wrote the Dark Horse Alien one-shot comic books, Aliens: Herk Mondo and Aliens: Mondo Heat in collaboration with artist and Pixar director Ronnie del Carmen.[7]

In 2014, Gilroy returned to Lucasfilm under Disney studios to serve as co-executive producer and series writer of Star Wars: Rebels where he wrote seventeen episodes through 2018.[8] Gilroy received two Emmy nominations for his work and won two Saturn Awards respectively.

In 2019, Gilroy was selected as the showrunner/head writer for an animated Magic: The Gathering TV show for Netflix with the Russo Brothers.[9]

In 2020, Gilroy began working on DreamWorks Dragons: The Nine Realms, an animated television series for DreamWorks Animation.[10]

Television and film credits

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Television

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Year Title Credit(s) Notes
1992 Batman: The Animated Series Episode: "Nothing to Fear"
1993 2 Stupid Dogs Segment: "Space Dogs"
1994 The Tick
1994 Taz-Mania
1994 The Baby Huey Show
1995 The Mask: Animated Series
1995 Earthworm Jim Episode: "Trout!"
1995–1996 The Savage Dragon
1996 The Mouse and the Monster
1998 All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series
1999 Timon & Pumbaa
1999 Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Episode: "The Adventure of the Deranged Detective"
2001 Jackie Chan Adventures Episode: "Origami"
2002 Teamo Supremo
2002 House of Mouse
2003 Lilo & Stitch: The Series
2004 Justice League Unlimited Episode: "Kids' Stuff"
2006 Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
2007 Kim Possible Episode: "The Mentor of Our Discontent"
2008–2010 Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008 Transformers Animated
2009 The Secret Saturdays Episode: "Curse of the Stolen Roger"
2010–2011 G.I. Joe: Renegades
2012 Iron Man: Armored Adventures
2012 Action Dad
2012 Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters
2012 Voltron Force Episode: "I, Voltron"
2012–2013 Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.
2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014 Ultimate Spider-Man
2014–2018 Star Wars Rebels
2017 Avengers Assemble
2017 Guardians of the Galaxy
2021–present DreamWorks Dragons: The Nine Realms

Film

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Year Title Credit(s) Notes
2002 Mickey's House of Villains
2003 Atlantis: Milo’s Return
2003 Bionicle: Mask of Light
2004 Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui
2005 Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows
2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2012 Mass Effect: Paragon Lost
2013–2014 Heroes United

References

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  1. ^ a b "An Interview with Star Wars: The Clone Wars Screenwriter and TV Series Writer Henry Gilroy". Galactic Binder. Archived from the original on November 26, 2018. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
  2. ^ "Henry Gilroy and Dave Filoni". TheForce.Net. Archived from the original on February 14, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
  3. ^ Furey, Emmett (August 13, 2008). "Send in the Clones: Gilroy talks "Clone Wars" Comics". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on June 11, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
  4. ^ Greenberger, Robert (December 11, 2013). "Win a Copy of Marvel's Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United". ComicMix. Archived from the original on October 22, 2015. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
  5. ^ Hilliard, Kyle (July 13, 2012). "Mass Effect 3 Anime Prequel Gets A Trailer". Game Informer. Archived from the original on August 21, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
  6. ^ Erdmann, Kevin (April 11, 2020). "Joker's Crossover With THE MASK is An Absolute Nightmare". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  7. ^ Robertson, Jeff (December 30, 2021). "Alien's Most Hilarious Xenomorph Hunter Came From Two Animation Titans". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on December 31, 2021. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
  8. ^ "Henry Gilroy". Television Academy. Archived from the original on February 27, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
  9. ^ Goldberg, Lesley (June 3, 2019). "'Magic: The Gathering' TV Series a Go at Netflix With the Russo Brothers". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on June 3, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
  10. ^ "DreamWorks Animation Drops 'Dragons: The Nine Realms' Teaser". Animation World Network. October 13, 2021. Archived from the original on October 13, 2021. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
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