Search
What's Hot
Summer TV: New Shows
Andy Samberg Leaving SNL
Kathryn Joosten Dies
Shows We Lost

Steven Bochco

Celebrity

Steven Bochco: Biography

steven bochco
1 photos
  • Birth Name: Steven Ronald Bochco
  • Birth Place: New York, NY
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 12/16/1943, Sagittarius
  • Profession: Producer; writer
User Rating: (2 ratings)
Add Your Rating: 1 stars2 stars3 stars4 stars5 stars
Steven Bochco Fast Facts:
  • Shared first writing credit with Rod Serling when he expanded Serling's A Slow Fade to Black, which aired in 1964 as part of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, into the 1967 theatrical release The Movie Maker, starring Rod Steiger.
  • When Columbo began as a series, he wrote the award-winning opening script ("Murder by the Book"). The episode was directed by Steven Spielberg.
  • Cowrote the 1972 sci-fi movie Silent Running.
  • A career detour was Cop Rock, a cop-musical series that he cocreated and produced in 1990. The ambitious, over-the-top show---in which cops burst into song while fighting crime---didn't get the acclaim of his classic Hill Street Blues and, later, NYPD Blue (to put it mildly) and lasted only three months.
  • (Bochco had tasted a bit of failure, too, with the short-lived 1983 baseball drama Bay City Blues...which featured Dennis Franz, Sharon Stone and Ken Olin.)
  • The man playing the violin on the TV logo for Steven Bochco Productions is in honor of his father, a concert violinist.
  • Published the novel Death by Hollywood in 2003.
  • Awards include the David Susskind Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, the Directors Guild of America Diversity Award in 1999 and the Humanitas Prize in 1999.
  • Son Jesse Bochco has directed episodes of some of his shows, including Philly (2001-2002) and Raising the Bar (2008-2009).
  • The one-time rebel (known for pushing the sex-and-violence TV envelope) acknowledged late in the 2000s that TV honchos were younger than he is and that "the network executives stay the same age and I keep getting older...they're sitting in a room with someone who's old enough to be their father and I'm not sure they want to sit in a room with their fathers."
  • Steven Bochco Relationships:
  • Joanna Frank - Sister
  • Rudolph Bochco - Father
  • Melissa P. Bochco - Daughter
  • Barbara Bosson - Ex-wife
  • Dayna Kalins - Wife
  • Mimi Bochco - Mother
  • Jesse Bochco - Son
  • Steven Bochco Awards:
  • 1981 Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series - Winner
  • 1982 Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series - Winner
  • 1983 Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series - Winner
  • 1984 Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series - Winner
  • 1985 Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1987 Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series - Winner
  • 1988 Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1989 Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series - Winner
  • 1992 Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1994 Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1995 Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series - Winner
  • 1996 Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1997 Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1998 Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1999 Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1994 Emmy: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1995 Emmy: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1972 Emmy: Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama - Nominee
  • 1973 Emmy: Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama - Nominee
  • 1981 Emmy: Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1981 Emmy: Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series - Winner
  • 1982 Emmy: Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1982 Emmy: Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series - Winner
  • 1983 Emmy: Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1987 Emmy: Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series - Winner
  • 1988 Emmy: Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1989 Emmy: Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1996 Emmy: Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1999 Emmy: Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1984 Emmy: Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • College:
  • Attended New York University, New York, NY; Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA (BFA in Theater, 1966)

Photos

josh henderson, steven bochco John Sciulli/WireImage.com
more Steven Bochco photos (1 total photos)
Advertisement

Our Partners

Advertisement

Related Websites

You might be also interested in the following websites:

Most Popular TV Shows

  1. American Idol
  2. NCIS
  3. Big Bang Theory
  4. Voice
  5. Person of Interest
more popular tv shows

Most Popular Celebrities

  1. Jessica Simpson
  2. Khloe Kardashian
  3. Kate Middleton
  4. Maria Menounos
  5. Kim Kardashian
more popular celebrities

Most Popular Movies

  1. Men In Black 3
  2. Avengers
  3. Battleship
  4. The Dictator
  5. Dark Shadows
more popular movies

Top Videos

  1. Celebrity
  2. Celebrity
  3. The Bachelorette
  4. America's Got Talent
  5. The Big Bang Theory
more top videos