As a writer, director, and actor, Ernest Thompson has had a varied career despite his relative obscurity. Born in Vermont, he started out as a playwright, stage actor, and theatrical director. In the '70s, he made the switch to television with the soap opera Somerset, the Yosemite park ranger show Sierra, and the medical drama West Side Medical. However, his major accomplishment ...more
- 1981
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Screenplay
- On Golden Pond
- win
- 1981
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- On Golden Pond
- win
- 1994
- Take Me Home Again
- Cal
- 1983
- Star 80
- Phil Wass
- 1974
- F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
- Earl Shoen
- 2001
- On Golden Pond
- Director
- 2001
- On Golden Pond
- Teleplay By
- 2001
- On Golden Pond
- Play Author
- 2000
- Out of Time
- Director
- 2000
- Out of Time
- Screenwriter














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