Anthony Yerkovich

Birth Name:

Anthony Yerkovich

Profession

Writer, Producer, Actor

Was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Television Episode for "Miami Vice" in 1985
Won a Writers Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama for "Miami Vice" in 1986
Was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for Episodic Drama for "Hill Street Blues" in 1982 and 1984
Started out as a writer on the TV series "Starsky and Hutch" in 1977
Quote: "(On choosing Miami as the setting for his iconic TV series): "[I] wanted to explore the changes in a city that used to be a middle-class vacation land․ Today Miami is like an American Casablanca, and it's never really been seen on television․""
Best known as the creator and executive producer of "Miami Vice․"
Is the owner of The Buffalo Club, a supper club modeled after a 1920s speakeasy, in Santa Monica, California
The original title for "Miami Vice" was "Gold Coast," a reference to news stories about the drug trade on Florida's Gold Coast that inspired him to write the series

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