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DetailsNationality: American
Birthdate: 04/04/1956
Birthplace: Waterville, Maine, USA
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Boyishly handsome and soft-spoken with a bone-dry self-deprecating sense of humor, David E Kelley is arguably the most prolific writer-producer working in television at the end of the 20th Century. Not since Garry Marshall's sitcoms dominated network television during the late 1970s has one man controlled so many shows simultaneously. Unchallenged by his work as a lawyer in Boston during the early 80s ("It was every bit as boring as you can imagine a law career being."), he decided to write a movie in his spare time, penning (in longhand on a legal pad, a practice he continues to favor) a tale
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Raised in the Boston, Massachusetts area
1983
Worked for three years in the litigation department of the mid-size Boston law firm Fine & Ambrogne, specializing in real estate and minor criminal cases
1986
On the strength of his then unproduced "From the Hip" screenplay, recruited by executive producer Steven Bochco to work as writer and consultant on NBC's "L.A. Law"; quickly became show's head writer; assumed co-producer status as of the 1987-1988 season, supervising producer the following season, and when Bochco left in 1989 to develop ABC's "NYPD Blue", assumed role of executive producer
1987
Feature screenwriting debut, "From the Hip"
1989
Served as writer, co-creator (with Bochco) and executive consultant on "Doogie Howser, M.D."; wrote premiere episode but involvement lessened with each passing season
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