Bo Dietl

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Richard Alfred "Bo" Dietl (* approx. 1950 ) is an American detective , entrepreneur , actor and writer .

Life

Dietl served as a police officer in the New York City Police Department from June 1969 . In March 1985, he injured his foot while skydiving and left the NYPD to start the detective and security company Beau Dietl & Associates .

In the 1986 congressional elections , Dietl was nominated in the sixth constituency of New York, but lost to Floyd H. Flake in the election . George HW Bush named Dietl Chairman of the National Crime Commission in 1989. In 1994 he was named chairman of the Security Guard Advisor Community to the Governor of New York.

In 1988 Dietl published his autobiography One Tough Cop: The Bo Dietl Story. The book was filmed in 1998 by Bruno Barreto as One Tough Cop with Stephen Baldwin in the role of Bo Dietl. Dietl himself had a cameo in the film . Dietl also appeared in several films as an actor, often as a police officer. Occasionally he also appeared as an executive producer . Dietl played himself in Martin Scorsese's 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street .

Filmography (selection)

Fonts

  • Bo Dietl, Ken Gross: One Tough Cop: The Bo Dietl Story. Pocket Books, 1988, 278 pages, ISBN 978-0671642556
  • Bo Dietl, Bob Bly: Business Lunchatations: How an Everyday Guy Became One of America's Most Colorful CEOs ... and How You Can, Too! Chamberlain Bros, 2005, 224 pages, ISBN 978-1596090538

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bo Dietl, New York Private Investigator, Bio at bodietl.com, accessed January 28, 2014
  2. ↑ a b Bo Dietl to Join Stinger Systems Board of Directors ( Memento February 4, 2012 on the Internet Archive ), prnewswire.com, January 7 [no year].
personal data
SURNAME Dietl, Bo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietl, Richard Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American detective, entrepreneur, actor, and writer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1950