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Home/People/Joseph Wambaugh
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Born
Jan 22, 1937
Age 89
Place of Birth
East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
Writing
Gender
Not specified

Career Highlights

3
Movies
3
TV Shows
IMDb Profile

Joseph Wambaugh

Writing

Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. (born January 22, 1937) is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States. Several of his first novels were set in Los Angeles, California, and its surroundings, and featured Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Wambaugh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cop Stories: The Making of Richard Fleischer’s ‘The New Centurions’ poster

Cop Stories: The Making of Richard Fleischer’s ‘The New Centurions’

as Self
2016
From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One poster

From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One

as Self
1992
The Blue Knight poster

The Blue Knight

as Desk Sergeant
1975