Michael Kozoll

Biography

Michael Kozollis an American screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for co-creating the police procedural television series Hill Street Blues along with Steven Bochco. Kozoll wrote for numerous American television hour-long dramatic programs in the 1970s, including Delvecchio, Quincy, M.E., McCloud, Kojak, Richie Brockelman, Private Eye and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. He then worked as a writer/producer/co-showrunner on Hill Street Blues for its first two seasons in 1981 and '82. Kozoll won two Primetime Emmy Awards, and was nominated for two more, in the category Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for his work on Hill Street Blues. As well, in 1981 he won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, along with Bochco and Gregory Hoblit.