Biography
As the co-creator of "NYPD Blue" (ABC, 1993-2005) and "Deadwood" (HBO, 2004-06) - two series that plumed the depths of human fallibility in gritty, violent and often profane ways - Milch offered audiences a more complex depiction of the police procedural and the Western, while reaffirming the human spirit through the suffering and ultimate redemption of his characters. Milch's astute glimpses at the underbelly of human nature were informed by …
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Career Milestones
| Spent some time in a Mexican jail | ||
| Taught writing at Yale College in the mid-1970s | ||
| While attending and teaching at Yale, apprenticed under novelist and poet Robert Penn Warren and literary critic Cleanth Brooks | ||
| Wrote several unpublished novels | ||
1968 | Enrolled in Yale Law School to avoid the draft; expelled for destroying a police car's siren lights with a shotgun | |
1982 | Hired by Steven Bochco to write for "Hill Street Blues" (NBC) | |
1983 | Wrote for Bochco's short-lived baseball series "Bay City Blues" (NBC) | |
1986 | Promoted to executive producer on "Hill Street Blues" | |
1987 | Created, wrote and executive produced "Beverly Hills Buntz" (NBC) | |
1987 | Made TV acting debut on the "Cannon of Ethics" episode of "L.A. Law" (NBC) | |
1990 | Created, wrote and executive produced the short-lived ABC series "Capital News" | |
1993 | Re-united with Bochco (as executive producer, co-creator and writer) on the controversial series "NYPD Blue" (ABC); left series in spring 2000 | |
2001 | Served as executive producer and creator of the CBS police drama "Big Apple" | |
2004 | Created the HBO series "Deadwood," a one-hour drama based on actual events in Deadwood, SD during the 1870s | |
2007 | Created, wrote and executive produced the HBO drama series "John from Cincinnati" | |
2012 | Created and executive produced the horse-racing drama "Luck" (HBO), starring Dustin Hoffman, Nick Nolte and Gary Stevens; show cancelled in March 2012 during season two production following death of third horse on set. | |
Awards
1983 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In a Drama Series in Hill Street Blues |
1984 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In a Drama Series in Hill Street Blues |
1985 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in Hill Street Blues |
1986 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in Hill Street Blues |
1987 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In a Drama Series in Hill Street Blues |
1994 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in NYPD Blue |
1994 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement In Writing In a Drama Series in NYPD Blue |
1994 | Producers Guild of America Award for Television in NYPD Blue |
1995 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in NYPD Blue |
1995 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement In Writing In a Drama Series in NYPD Blue |
1996 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in NYPD Blue |
1996 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series in Murder One |
1997 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in NYPD Blue |
1997 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series in NYPD Blue |
1998 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in NYPD Blue |
1998 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series in NYPD Blue |
1999 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in NYPD Blue |
1999 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series in NYPD Blue |
2004 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series in Deadwood |
2005 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in Deadwood |