David Milk

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David Milch at the 2005 Peabody Awards

David Milch (born March 23, 1945 in Buffalo , New York ) is an American screenwriter and producer .

Life

David Milch graduated from Yale with a degree in English, then earned his Masters in the Iowa Writers' Workshop and taught at Yale for nine years. He has worked with Robert Penn Warren , whom he calls his mentor, as well as with RWB Lewis and Cleanth Brooks, and has published in prestigious literary journals accordingly.

In 1982, Milch wrote the script for the Hill Street Police Station episode Trial by Fury , which opened the series' third season. He received an Emmy , the Writers Guild Award and the Humanitas Prize for the script .

He remained an active screenwriter, gaining experience as a co-creator of the short-lived series Beverly Hills Buntz and Capital News . With the series New York Cops - NYPD Blue , which started in 1993 and only ended in 2005 , he achieved his first great success as a co-creator . From 2004 to 2006 then completely based on his ideas series ran Deadwood on HBO .

Follow-up series such as John from Cincinnati were usually not very successful, Luck was discontinued in 2012 during the filming of the second season after three horse deaths had occurred during the filming and the ratings were also rather moderate.

Filmography (selection)

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  1. ↑ a b americanheritage.com: The Man Who Made Deadwood | American Heritage Magazine , accessed April 1, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Horace Newcomb: Deadwood , in: Gary R. Edgerton, Jeffrey P. Jones (Eds.): The Essential HBO Reader , ISBN 978-0-8131-2452-0 , 2008, pp. 92-102
  3. ↑ spiegel.de: TC series with Dustin Hoffman: HBO discontinues "Luck" after horse death on set - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Kultur , accessed April 1, 2012

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SURNAME Milk, david
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , New York , United States