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Doug Maguire was born on April 11th, 1973 in Hyannis, Massachusetts. After dropping out of Wentworth Institute of Technology, where he studied technical writing and electronic engineering, Maguire tried his hand at screenplays and making movies. While enrolled part-time at Emerson College in Boston, Maguire quietly made a name for himself as "the guy who can do it all" - write, direct, produce and edit - and by making it all come together on a shoestring budget. Most everything Maguire learned was picked up by reading indie filmmaking magazines, books by his favorite directors and paying close attention to every frame of his favorite movies, along with listening to the audio commentaries available on laser discs.

In 2011, Maguire began production on the very independent movie Bank Roll (2012) through his company, MagCo Entertainment. This little indie went on to receive a few accolades Maguire had hoped for, winning Best Dramatic Feature at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, along with the People's Choice Award, where audiences voted it the best in the fest of 2012. The movie also won for Best California Feature at the California Film Awards, was honored with an Award of Merit from The Indie Fest and Los Angeles Movie Awards topped it off with an Honorable Mention. Scott Bailey also picked up his first trophy for the character he played, winning Best Supporting Actor from HRIFF 2012 under Maguire's direction.

Almost 10 years after making indie movies on YouTube Channels, Maguire turned his focus again to writing and joined the FimFreeway/Coverfly communities. His first effort, "Ei8hty-Ei8ht" - a short screenplay set in Burbank and Glendale, California earned him over 20 independent film festival awards. "All film festivals closed that year due to a COVID-19 pandemic," he said. "Winners could not attend any of the events. It was a blow, but what really blows is I submitted a script to 88 film festivals and less than half accepted my work. It made me want to be better as a writer for the next project."

Maguire joined The HONR Network in 2016 to fight internet trolls and bullies with his mentor, Lenny Pozner, who lost a child in 2012 to gun violence at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

He has one son, Vincente Maguire.