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He was born into show business in 1947, the son of the late Los Angeles television and radio personality Larry Finley and cousin of the late writer/producer Rod Serling.  One would think that at the age of fifty-seven, Finley would be content being a top Hollywood theatrical voice-over artist, having worked on over two thousand movies and television programs.  But Finley has a new goal; become a respected and successful screenwriter.

His background is as diverse as the genres he writes.  After graduating from Beverly Hills High School, Finley went into the Army where he rose to the rank of Captain and spent eighteen months in Vietnam in Special Forces. After military service, he married a widow with four daughters and settled into his life as a father supporting the family by selling automobiles in northern California. Two years later, his son Guy was born. Just a few years after that, the marriage dissolved and he moved back to the Southland to pursue his dreams of becoming an actor.  

Successful as a day player in the late 1970s and early '80s, Finley's writing career began in 1981 as a writer/director on the syndicated animated television series, "ROBOTECH."  He remarried in 1982, and in 1983, about the time his voice-over career blossomed, another son, Garrett, was born.   For the next twenty years, he continued to write un-credited newscasts, sports programs and background scenes in hundreds of the movies and television shows he "looped."  Then, in 2002, he wrote a children's book. While waiting for a publisher to buy his first effort, Greg happened across a website that sold script-writing software. He bought the software and began the task of converting his kid's novel into a screenplay.  The next thing he knew, he was hooked on writing movies.

After an agent showed interest in his first script effort, Greg decided to write about the characters he met while selling cars in the 1970s. When that was finished, he wrote a police-thriller using some of the experiences and research he got as a reserve cop with the City of San Fernando in 1991 and 1992. By now, Finley's desire to write was even greater than his desire to play golf!  Greg channeled his late relative who created "The Twilight Zone" for his next efforts.  After writing a sci-fi thriller about a twelve-year-old boy who has Alien neighbors, Greg wrote a dark comedy about a salesman who receives miraculous luck, but then dies and passes it on to anyone who touches his body.  His latest script follows a female led Special Forces Team that accidentally winds up in the middle of the Civil War where they must defeat a secret Confederate plot to ensure the North's victory at Gettysburg.

Still in love after twenty-three years of marriage to his wife Patti, still close to all of his children, and still happily working as a voice-over actor, Greg Finley is currently finishing two new scripts, directing at his local community theater, adapting one of his screenplays into a novel, and co-authoring a book about mastering the mental aspects of golf. It sounds like he barely has time to tee up the little white ball, but that's the price he's willing to pay because Greg has his eyes and his heart set on achieving his very lofty goal.