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Joseph Wambaugh

Writer · 1937–2025 · East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. (born January 22, 1937) is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States. Several of his first novels were set in Los Angeles, California, and its surroundings, and featured Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Wambaugh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Wrote 11

1990s

  1. 1993

    Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert

    Writer

1980s

  1. 1987

    Echoes in the Darkness

    Novel, Teleplay

  2. Echoes in the Darkness

    Teleplay, Novel

  3. 1984

    The Glitter Dome

    Novel

  4. 1980

    The Black Marble

    Screenplay, Novel

1970s

  1. 1979

    The Onion Field

    Novel, Screenplay

  2. 1977

    The Choirboys

    Screenplay, Novel

  3. 1975

    The Blue Knight

    Novel

  4. 1973

    The Blue Knight

    Novel

  5. The Blue Knight

    Novel

  6. 1972

    The New Centurions

    Novel

Produced 4

1990s

  1. 1993

    Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert

    Executive Producer

  2. 1992

    From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One

    Supervising Producer

1980s

  1. 1987

    Echoes in the Darkness

    Co-Producer

  2. Echoes in the Darkness

    Co-Producer

Created 4

1980s

  1. 1987

    Echoes in the Darkness

    Creator

1970s

  1. 1975
  2. The Blue Knight

    Creator

  3. 1973

Acted in 3

Other crew 3

1980s

  1. 1980

    Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop

    Creator

1970s

  1. 1979

    A Cry for Justice

    Creator

  2. 1973

    Big John Morrison

    Creator

Appearances4

2010s

  1. 2016

    Cop Stories: The Making of Richard Fleischer’s ‘The New Centurions’

    Self

1990s

  1. 1992

    From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One

    Self