Joseph Wambaugh

Joseph Wambaugh

Birthday: 1937-01-22

Place of Birth: East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. (born January 22, 1937) is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States. Several of his first novels were set in Los Angeles, California, and its surroundings, and featured Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Wambaugh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

The Blue Knight
The Blue Knight

In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force ...

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From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One
From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One

In the first of a potential series of films inspired by the real-life experiences of Los Angeles pol...

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Cop Stories: The Making of Richard Fleischer’s ‘The New Centurions’
Cop Stories: The Making of Richard Fleischer’s ‘The New Centurions’

Joseph Wambaugh wrote his first novel 'The New Centurions' while still active as a member of the Los...

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