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Steven Bochco(1943-2018)

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Steven Bochco
Attended Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie-Mellon University) as a playwriting major. Barbara Bosson (his second wife), Michael Tucker, Bruce Weitz and Charles Haid were classmates; he and Tucker drove cross-country to Hollywood for full-time jobs at Universal, where Bochco would remain for 12 years.

In 1978, he moved to MTM Enterprises, who after several attempts gave him carte Blanche to create a show similar to Fort Apache the Bronx (1981) (Hill Street Blues (1981)). In 1985, MTM fired him, in part for his inability to keep HSB on budget. After creating L.A. Law (1986) and Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989) for NBC, he struck a $15M deal with ABC in 1987 to create 10 series pilots over 10 years.
BornDecember 16, 1943
DiedApril 1, 2018(74)
BornDecember 16, 1943
DiedApril 1, 2018(74)
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  • Won 10 Primetime Emmys

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Steven Bochco in Television (1988)
Steven Bochco in The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (1997)
Steven Bochco and Jill Eikenberry
Steven Bochco in NYPD Blue (1993)
Steven Bochco in The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (1997)
Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll
Steven Bochco
Steven Bochco
Steven Bochco
Steven Bochco and Betty Thomas
Steven Bochco
Steven Bochco

Known for

Robert Clohessy, Michael Warren, and Bruce Weitz in Hill Street Blues (1981)
Hill Street Blues
8.2
TV Series
  • Writer(creator)
L.A. Law (1986)
L.A. Law
7.1
TV Series
  • Writer(creator)
Dennis Franz, Jimmy Smits, Sharon Lawrence, James McDaniel, Gordon Clapp, and Nicholas Turturro in NYPD Blue (1993)
NYPD Blue
7.7
TV Series
  • Writer(creator)
Murder One (1995)
Murder One
8.2
TV Series
  • Writer(creator)

Credits

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Writer

  • Peyton Elizabeth Lee in Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. (2021)
    Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.
  • Taye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson in Murder in the First (2014)
    Murder in the First
    • (creator)
  • Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gloria Reuben, Natalia Cigliuti, Jane Kaczmarek, J. August Richards, Melissa Sagemiller, and Jonathan Scarfe in Raising the Bar (2008)
    Raising the Bar
    • (creator)
  • Commander in Chief (2005)
    Commander in Chief
  • Over There (2005)
    Over There
  • Blind Justice (2005)
    Blind Justice
  • Dennis Franz, Jimmy Smits, Sharon Lawrence, James McDaniel, Gordon Clapp, and Nicholas Turturro in NYPD Blue (1993)
    NYPD Blue
    • (creator)
  • NYPD 2069
  • Grand Central Bennetts
    • (segment : "Swimming Tool)
  • Kim Delaney, Kyle Secor, Rick Hoffman, Diana Maria Riva, and Tom Everett Scott in Philly (2001)
    Philly
  • Corbin Bernsen, Susan Dey, Harry Hamlin, Larry Drake, Richard Dysart, Jill Eikenberry, Michele Greene, Susan Ruttan, and Michael Tucker in L.A. Law: The Movie (2002)
    L.A. Law: The Movie
  • Blair Underwood in City of Angels (2000)
    City of Angels
    • (creator)
  • Yancy Butler, Jon Tenney, and Dylan Walsh in Brooklyn South (1997)
    Brooklyn South
    • (creator)
  • Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer (1997)
    Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer
  • Total Security (1997)
    Total Security

Producer

  • Taye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson in Murder in the First (2014)
    Murder in the First
  • Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gloria Reuben, Natalia Cigliuti, Jane Kaczmarek, J. August Richards, Melissa Sagemiller, and Jonathan Scarfe in Raising the Bar (2008)
    Raising the Bar
  • Laura Harris and Jaime Ray Newman in Hollis & Rae (2006)
    Hollis & Rae
  • Commander in Chief (2005)
    Commander in Chief
  • Over There (2005)
    Over There
  • Blind Justice (2005)
    Blind Justice
  • Dennis Franz, Jimmy Smits, Sharon Lawrence, James McDaniel, Gordon Clapp, and Nicholas Turturro in NYPD Blue (1993)
    NYPD Blue
  • NYPD 2069
  • Kim Delaney, Kyle Secor, Rick Hoffman, Diana Maria Riva, and Tom Everett Scott in Philly (2001)
    Philly
  • Blair Underwood in City of Angels (2000)
    City of Angels
  • Yancy Butler, Jon Tenney, and Dylan Walsh in Brooklyn South (1997)
    Brooklyn South
  • Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer (1997)
    Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer
  • Total Security (1997)
    Total Security
  • Murder One (1995)
    Murder One
  • Donal Logue, Bill Brochtrup, Julianne Christie, Louis Ferreira, Peter Gerety, Jana Marie Hupp, Joseph Latimore, and Larry Romano in Public Morals (1996)
    Public Morals

Additional Crew

  • L.A. Law (1986)
    L.A. Law
  • Hooperman (1987)
    Hooperman
  • Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in McMillan & Wife (1971)
    McMillan & Wife
  • Columbo (1971)
    Columbo
  • The Name of the Game (1968)
    The Name of the Game

Personal details

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    • December 16, 1943
    • New York City, New York, USA
    • April 1, 2018
    • Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, USA(complications from leukemia)
    • Dayna KalinsAugust 12, 2000 - April 1, 2018 (his death)
  • Other works
    Novel: "Death by Hollywood".
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Print Biography
    • 2 Interviews
    • 10 Articles

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    His father, Rudolph Bochco, was a Russian-born violinist.
  • Quotes
    [on Hill Street Blues (1981)] We conveyed the sense of being powerless--as cops, you were garbage collectors in a sense. You might have kept the lid on things, but it never got better. Furillo ['nm0871240'] had tons of responsibility and very little authority and the cumulative impact thematically was a kind of despair, alleviated by outrageous gallows humor.'

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