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Daniel Petrie Jr.
Highest Rated: 100% Deadly Pursuit (1988)
Lowest Rated: 0% Dawn Patrol (2014)
Birthday: Nov 30, 1951
Birthplace: Canada
Literary agent turned screenwriter who scored with the Eddie Murphy box-office smash, "Beverly Hills Cop" (1984) and wrote the offbeat, steamy New Orleans-set thriller, "The Big Easy" (1986). Petrie began a second career as a producer with "Shoot to Kill" (1988) and made his directorial debut with the prep school drama, "Toy Soldiers" (1991). Son of director Daniel Petrie and producer Dorothea Petrie and brother of AFI-trained director Donald Petrie ("Mystic Pizza" 1988, "Grumpy Old Men" 1993).
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10% |
|
Zero Contact | Executive Producer | - | 2022 |
| 11% |
|
Intrigo: Death of an Author | Executive Producer | - | 2018 |
| 41% |
|
An Ordinary Man | Executive Producer | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Classy Broad | Self | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Rosemont |
Director, Producer |
- | 2015 |
| 0% |
|
Dawn Patrol |
Director, Producer |
- | 2014 |
| No Score Yet |
|
A Haunting At Silver Falls | Executive Producer | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Pictures of Hollis Woods | Screenwriter | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Framed |
Director, Writer |
- | 2003 |
| 40% |
|
The 6th Day | Co-Producer | $34.5M | 2000 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Dead Silence | Director | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Toe Tags | Director | - | 1996 |
| 12% |
|
In the Army Now | Director | $28.9M | 1994 |
| 41% |
|
Toy Soldiers |
Director, Screenwriter |
$13.4M | 1991 |
| 52% |
|
Turner & Hooch |
Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
$70.5M | 1989 |
| 100% |
|
Deadly Pursuit |
Screenwriter, Producer |
$29.3M | 1988 |
| 89% |
|
The Big Easy | Screenwriter | $15.5M | 1986 |
| 82% |
|
Beverly Hills Cop | Writer | - | 1984 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43% | No Score Yet | Combat Hospital |
Executive Producer, Writer |
2011 |