Joseph Wambaugh

Joseph Wambaugh

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Joseph Wambaugh

Writer
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Joseph Wambaugh

Writer

January 22, 1937

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

February 28, 2025

Joseph Wambaugh was a novelist and screenwriter. He turned his novel The Blue Knight into a television series and movie, where he served as a screenwriter on both productions. He created and wrote the screenplay for Police Story which ran for 6 seasons. Other books of Wambaugh's that were developed into films include The New Centurions, The Choirboys, The Onion Field and The Black Marble.

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