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  1. Daniel Mannix Petrie Jr. (born November 30, 1951) [1] is a Canadian-American [2] producer, writer, and director of film and television. [3] He is best known for pioneering the sub-genres of action comedy and buddy cop films [4] through films like Beverly Hills Cop and Turner & Hooch. [5] He served as President of the Writers Guild of America ...

  2. Daniel Petrie Jr.. Writer: Beverly Hills Cop. Daniel Petrie Jr. was born in 1952. He is a writer and producer, known for Beverly Hills Cop (1984), The Big Easy (1986) and Toy Soldiers (1991).

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  3. Daniel Mannix Petrie [1] (November 26, 1920 – August 22, 2004) was a Canadian film, television, and stage director who worked in Canada, Hollywood, and the United Kingdom; known for directing grounded human dramas often dealing with taboo subject matter. He was one of several Canadian-born expatriate filmmakers, including Norman Jewison and ...

  4. Oct 20, 2015 · Daniel Petrie Jr comes from a family with movies in its blood. His father, Daniel Petrie Sr, directed films such as Resurrection, Cocoon: The Return and A Raisin In The Sun. His mother, Dorothea ...

  5. Daniel Petrie Jr.. Writer: Beverly Hills Cop. Daniel Petrie Jr. was born in 1952. He is a writer and producer, known for Beverly Hills Cop (1984), The Big Easy (1986) and Toy Soldiers (1991).

  6. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Daniel Petrie, Jr. (born 1952), the son of Daniel Petrie, Sr., is perhaps best known as the one of the screenwriters of the mid-1980s hit movie, Beverly Hills Cop and The Big Easy as well as the director of Toy Soldiers. He is currently (October 2004) president of the western chapter of the Writers Guild of America. Description above from the Wikipedia ...

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  8. Daniel Petrie Jr. A member of the Writers Guild since 1984, Daniel Petrie Jr. wrote the screenplays for Beverly Hills Cop, starring Eddie Murphy (for which he received an Oscar nomination), and The Big Easy, starring Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin. Petrie then co-wrote and produced Shoot to Kill, starring Sidney Poitier, co-wrote and exec ...