Steven Bochco

Steven Bochco (born December 16, 1943, New York, New York, U.S.—died April 1, 2018, Pacific Palisades, California) was an American television writer, director, and producer who was the creative force behind several popular series. His shows typically centred on the lives of police officers or lawyers. Bochco, the son of a concert violinist father and a painter mother, began writing for television after graduating from Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University; B.F.A., 1966), where he...