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Daniel Petrie Jr.

Highest Rated: 100% Deadly Pursuit (1988)

Lowest Rated: 0% Dawn Patrol (2014)

Birthday: Nov 30, 1951

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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).

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Highest rated movies

100% 64% Deadly Pursuit
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89% 61% The Big Easy
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82% 82% Beverly Hills Cop Watchlist
50% 51% Turner & Hooch
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41% 39% An Ordinary Man Watchlist
41% 66% Toy Soldiers
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40% 33% The 6th Day Watchlist
20% 28% Go With Me
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12% 44% In the Army Now
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11% 48% Intrigo: Death of an Author Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
10% 12% Zero Contact Executive Producer - 2022
11% 48% Intrigo: Death of an Author Executive Producer - 2018
41% 39% An Ordinary Man Executive Producer - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Classy Broad Self - 2016
No Score Yet 72% Rosemont Director,
Producer
- 2015
20% 28% Go With Me Executive Producer $16.5K 2015
0% 11% Dawn Patrol Director,
Producer
- 2014
No Score Yet 32% A Haunting At Silver Falls Executive Producer - 2013
No Score Yet 77% Pictures of Hollis Woods Screenwriter - 2007
No Score Yet 32% Framed Director,
Writer
- 2003
40% 33% The 6th Day Co-Producer $34.5M 2000
No Score Yet 26% Dead Silence Director - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Toe Tags Director - 1996
12% 44% In the Army Now Director $28.9M 1994
41% 66% Toy Soldiers Director,
Screenwriter
$13.4M 1991
50% 51% Turner & Hooch Screenwriter,
Executive Producer
$70.5M 1989
100% 64% Deadly Pursuit Screenwriter,
Producer
$29.3M 1988
89% 61% The Big Easy Screenwriter $15.5M 1986
82% 82% Beverly Hills Cop Writer - 1984

TV

Credit
43% No Score Yet Combat Hospital Executive Producer,
Writer
2011