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David Milch

David Sanford Milch (born March 23, 1945) is an American writer and producer of television series. He has created several television shows, including ABC's NYPD Blue (1993–2005), co-created with Steven Bochco, and HBO's Deadwood (2004–2006, 2019).[1]

David Milch

David Sanford Milch

(1945-03-23) March 23, 1945
Buffalo, New York

Screenwriter, television producer

Rita Stern
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(m. 1982)​

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Early life and education[edit]

Milch graduated with a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale University, where he won the Tinker Prize in English, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter,[2][3] along with future US President George W. Bush. Milch earned a Master of Fine Arts with distinction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.[4]


To avoid the draft during the Vietnam War, Milch enrolled in Yale Law School, but he was expelled for allegedly shooting out a police car siren with a shotgun.[5]

(1982–87)

Hill Street Blues

(1983)

Bay City Blues

(1987–88) (co-creator, with Jeffrey Lewis)

Beverly Hills Buntz

(1990) (co-creator, with Christian Williams)

Capital News

(1992)

L.A. Law

(1993–2005) (co-creator, with Steven Bochco)

NYPD Blue

(1995)

Murder One

(1997–98) (co-creator, with Steven Bochco)

Brooklyn South

(1997) (co-creator, with Steven Bochco, Charles H. Eglee, and Theresa Rebeck)

Total Security

(2001) (creator)

Big Apple

(2004–06) (creator)

Deadwood

(2007) (co-creator, with Kem Nunn)

John from Cincinnati

Last of the Ninth (2009) (co-creator, with )

Bill Clark

(2011–12) (creator)

Luck

The Money (2013) (creator)

(2019)

True Detective

(2019)

Deadwood: The Movie

Milch, David and . True Blue: The Real Stories Behind NYPD Blue. New York: William Morrow & Co, 1995. ISBN 978-0688140816

Clark, Bill

Milch, David. Deadwood: Stories of the Black Hills. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2006.  978-1596912397

ISBN

Milch, David. Life's Work: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 2022.  978-0525510741[36]

ISBN

1983 , Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (Hill Street Blues, "Trial By Fury")

Emmy Award

1994 , Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay (NYPD Blue, "4B or Not 4B")

Edgar Award

1995 , Best Drama Series (NYPD Blue)

Emmy Award

1995 , Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay (NYPD Blue, "Simone Says") (shared with Steven Bochco and Walon Green)

Edgar Award

1997 , Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (NYPD Blue, "Where's 'Swaldo")

Emmy Award

1998 , Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (NYPD Blue, "Lost Israel: Part 2")

Emmy Award

2006 , Outstanding Television Writer Award recipient

Austin Film Festival

2019 , TCA Career Achievement Award

TCA Award

. SAG Foundation. July 13, 2011. (Video: 80-minutes.)

An Evening with Acclaimed Writer/Producer David Milch

& Milch, David (January 25, 2012). "David Milch: Trying His 'Luck' With Horse Racing". Fresh Air.

Davies, Dave

Havrilesky, Heather (March 5, 2005). . Salon.com. Archived from the original on August 23, 2006.

"The man behind 'Deadwood'"

(February 14, 2005). "The Misfit". The New Yorker. Profile of Milch.

Singer, Mark

. Cambridge, MA. April 20, 2006. Archived from the original on November 2, 2006. Retrieved October 17, 2006.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (Video: 1:23:15.)

Television's Great Writer (David Milch at MIT)

(May 27, 2019). "Hello, darkness: the creator of several hit shows has dementia. And some thoughts about that". Profiles. The New Yorker. Vol. 95, no. 14. pp. 24–30.[a]

Singer, Mark

at IMDb

David Milch

at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television

David Milch

. National Thoroughbred Racing Association. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007.

"Bio: David S. Milch"

. The Idea of the Writer.

"Collection of David Milch lectures in audio and video formats"

Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

David Milch Papers.