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David Kelley

  • Birthplace: Waterville, Maine
  • Birthday: April 4, 1956

Boyishly handsome and soft-spoken with a bone-dry self-deprecating sense of humor, David E Kelley is arguably the most prolific writer-producer working in television at the end of the 20th Century. Not since Garry Marshall's sitcoms dominated network television during the late 1970s has one man controlled so many shows simultaneously. Unchallenged by his work as a lawyer in Boston during the early 80s ("It was every bit as boring as you can imagine a law career being."), he decided to write a movie in his spare time, penning (in l…more

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Actor
Consultants & Advisors
Producer

Career Milestones

  • 2004

    Developed an unscripted series for NBC, a legal drama pitting contestants with law degrees against each other in a race for a partner position at a law firm

  • 2002

    Created and executive produced the FOX drama "Girl's Club"

  • 1999

    Scripted the hockey-themed feature "Mystery, Alaska"

  • 1999

    Wrote the black comedy-thriller "Lake Placid", starring Bridget Fonda as a paleontologist who teams with an eccentric billionaire to solve a mysterious death

  • 1997 to 2004

    Wrote, created and executive produced the ABC legal drama "The Practice"; fired most of the original cast in the 2003 season to keep the cost down, but added James Spader as a lead character

Awards

  • 2003

    Peabody Award:

  • 2002

    Writers Guild of America Award: Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television

  • 2001

    Brandon Tartikoff Award:

  • 2000

    Producers Guild of America David Susskind Lifetime Achievement in Television Award:

  • 1998

    Emmy: Outstanding Comedy Series

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