Chuck Adamson

Chuck Adamson
Born	Charles Fredrick Adamson June 11, 1936 Chicago, Illinois
Died	February 22, 2008 (aged 71) Roseburg, Oregon
Occupation	Television producer, Former Chicago detective, Sgt.

Charles Fredrick "Chuck" Adamson (June 11, 1936 - February 22, 2008) was an American retired police officer who became a television producer and screen writer. He was best known for creating the television crime drama Crime Story, for which he won a People's Choice Award, and for writing episodes of Miami Vice. The 1995 film Heat, starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino and directed by Michael Mann, is based on one of Adamson's more famous cases in Chicago from the 1960s. He died in 2008 at age 71.^[1]

Filmography

• Thief (1981)
• Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
• Crime Story (TV series 1987)
• A River Runs Through It (1992)
• Top Cops (TV series 1992)
• The Stand (TV mini-series 1994)
• Quiz Show (1994)

References

• Chuck Adamson at the Internet Movie Database

1. ^ "Adamson, Chuck". Las Vegas Review-Journal. March 2, 2008. http://www.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/individual_display.jsp?obitID=3645211. Retrieved 2009-07-28. 

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Name	Adamson, Chuck
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Date of birth	June 11, 1936
Place of birth	Chicago, Illinois
Date of death	February 22, 2008
Place of death	Roseburg, Oregon