Chuck Adamson

Charles Fredrick Chuck Adamson (June 11, 1936 – February 22, 2008) was an American police officer who became a television producer and screenwriter.Adamson was best known for creating the television crime drama Crime Story, for which he won a Peoples 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 Adamsons more famous cases in Chicago from the 1960s.He died in 2008 at age 71. Michael Manns 2009 film Public Enemies stated in its end credits In memory of Chuck Adamson.

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