Steven Ronald Bochco (born December 16 1943) is an American television producer and writer. He has developed a number of popular television hits including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue.

Life and career

Early life

Bochco was born in New York City, the son of Mimi, a painter, and Rudolph Bochco, a concert violinist.www.filmreference.com/film/38/Steven-Bochco.html He was educated in Manhattan at the High School of Music and Art. His elder sister is actress Joanna Frank. In 1961, he enrolled at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (after merging with the Mellon Institute in 1967 known as Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh to study playwriting and theater. He graduated with a BFA in Theater in 1966, having also had an MCA Writing Fellowship.