Gregory Hoblit

Born: 27th November 1944
Where: Texas

Raised in California, Gregory attended the University of California in Los Angeles, where he majored in film and TV.

After this, he left to work in Chicago, where he got his start in local TV, working as an associate producer and producer on live and taped programming.

Steven Bochco, who had risen to the status of one of the hottest young writers in TV thanks to Columbo and other series, asked Gregory to join him in the new company he was setting up, MTM Enterprises.

Gregory accepted, although the partnership got off to a shaky start with their first series, Paris, not a success. Their second series, Hill Street Blues, made TV history.

Bochco, Gregory and a few others, assembled another ground-breaking series, L.A. Law, with Gregory in the directing chair. Then in 1993, Bochco, and Gregory developed NYPD Blue, with Gregory directing the two-hour pilot and numerous episodes, thereby setting the tone of the show.

In 1996, Gregory turned to directing feature films, first with Primal Fear, starring Richard Gere and newcomer Edward Norton in his Oscar-nominated, star-making role as the accused.

His next directing credit was Fallen, followed by the supernatural, Frequency, and Hart's War.