The Happy Days of Garry Marshall

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel

Robots

Making a 'Splash'

Greedy

Mr. Saturday Night

Parenthood

Splash

A League of Their Own

Tooth Fairy

The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'

The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'

Fever Pitch

Where the Heart Is

EDtv

Hiller and Diller

Fathers' Day

Multiplicity

Forget Paris

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

City Slickers

Knight & Daye

Vibes

Take Five

Gung Ho

Spies Like Us

Amazing Stories

Herndon

Night Shift

Joanie Loves Chachi

The Further Adventures of Wally Brown

America 2100

The Lovebirds

Angie

Makin' It

Brothers and Sisters

Busting Loose

Laverne & Shirley

Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers

Happy Days

The Odd Couple

Lowell Ganz (born August 31, 1948) is an American writer and producer.  He is the long-time writing partner of Babaloo Mandel and has written for television, film, and theatre.
Ganz grew up in a Jewish family in Queens, New York, attending Martin Van Buren High School in Queens Village.  He dropped out of college and moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue a career writing for sitcoms, starting with The Odd Couple.  From there, he moved on to writing for the TV series Happy Days and created two of its spin-off series, Laverne and Shirley and Joanie Loves Chachi.
In 1982, Ganz and Mandel teamed up with Happy Days actors Ron Howard and Henry Winkler to make their first film, the low-budget comedy Night Shift, which was also actor Michael Keaton's first film; Howard signed on because he wanted to start directing while Winkler wanted to move away from his image as the Fonz. Ganz's second film outing, Splash, made stars of Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Ganz and Mandel went on to write several other films, four more of which were also directed by Howard, and one of which had Penny Marshall, who starred in Laverne and Shirley, as director.  Four of their films have featured Billy Crystal, three have featured Michael Keaton, two have featured Tom Hanks, and two are about baseball.  Ganz and Mandel are also widely used as Hollywood script doctors, known for their reliability and fast turnaround time.
Ganz lives in Los Angeles with his wife of more than 45 years.  They have three children.



Lowell Ganz