
Steven Bochco
Known for writing · Born 16 December 1943 · Died 1 April 2018 · aged 74 · New York City, New York, USA
57 credits
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.
Known for

NYPD Blue
1993

Columbo
1971

Hill Street Blues
1981

L.A. Law
1986

Silent Running
1972

The White Shadow
1978

Fuck
2006

Murder in the First
2014

Doogie Howser, M.D.
1989

Murder One
1995

Commander in Chief
2005

Brooklyn South
1997