Grandmaster of Police Stories
A FEW VINTAGE PHOTOS
Wambaugh on location (and loving it)
The New Centurions movie, 1973
Wambaugh and director Harold Becker on the set of
The Black Marble movie, 1979
Wambaugh's detective partner, Richard Kalk,
on location, The Blue Knight weekly TV
mini-series, teaching actor William Holden
how to be a cop
Actor Hugh O'Brian joins Wambaugh on
the set of Police Story, weekly TV series
Richard Kalk on location, The Blue Knight
weekly TV series,with actor
George Kennedy who is tired of it all.
Wambaugh advising arresting officers
in Hollenbeck Station detective squad room
Weighing drugs for arresting officers
1973
Casting for The Onion Field movie
Top left: Gregory Powell, the killer - Top right: actor James Woods
Lower Left: Jimmy Smith, the killer - Lower right: actor Franklyn Seales
Youthful Wambaugh, the lonely detective on night duty
Wambaugh in editing room,
The Onion Field movie
Actor James Woods and Wambaugh on location,
The Black Marble movie
Richard Kalk giving police technical
advice to George C. Scott
(who's not too thrilled)
The New Centurions movie.
Twentieth anniversary party for Police Story TV series, 1993
Left to right: Laraine Gerber, actor Tony LoBianco, actor Don Meredith,
actor Vince Edwards, actor Angie Dickinson, Joseph Wambaugh, actor Earl Holliman,
producer Stan Kallis, executive producer David Gerber, actor Claude Akins, actor Chuck Connors
Wambaugh's LAPD badge #178
1960-1974
Wambaugh directing a chorus of the "choirboys" of Glasgow, Scotland, 1975