Daniel Depp

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Daniel P. Depp (* 14. November 1953 in Kentucky ) is American writer - and crime - author and film producer . He is the older half-brother (on his mother's side) of the US film actor Johnny Depp .

Live and act

Daniel Depp was born in Kentucky. When he was four years old, his parents divorced and the children stayed with their mother, who remarried. The new husband adopted the children, together the couple had two more, one of whom is the actor Johnny Depp. The family moved very often, ultimately Depp grew up mainly in Florida. He has already worked as a history teacher, ran a bookstore and wrote art reviews for newspapers. He has also exhibited his own photographs several times and taught screenwriting. For several years he worked for his brother Johnny's production company in Hollywood.

Depp co-wrote the script for the 1997 Palme d'Or nominee, The Brave , directed and starred by his brother Johnny Depp.

In 2009 he published his first detective novel Loser's Town (Verlag Simon & Schuster, London), which was published by C. Bertelsmann in Germany in the autumn of the same year under the title City of Losers . In the meantime, two more novels about the private detective David Spandau have been published: Nights in Babylon and Dance with the Devil .

Daniel Depp is married and lives near San Francisco and in France .

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  1. ↑ a b author's page on simonandschuster.com (English), accessed on November 1, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Interview on sueddeutsche.de , accessed on November 1, 2012
  3. ^ A b Elizabeth Day: The other very talented Mr Depp. In: https://www.theguardian.com/international . The Observer , March 22, 2009, accessed April 8, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Biography on imdb.com (English), accessed on November 1, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Depp, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Depp, Daniel P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer, screenwriter and crime writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Kentucky