Michael Kozoll is an American

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. He is perhaps best known for creating the

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television series '' Hill Street Blues'' along with Steven Bochco. Kozoll wrote for television programs including '' Delvecchio'', '' Quincy, M.E.'', '' McCloud'', '' Richie Brockelman, Private Eye'' and '' Kolchak: The Night Stalker''. He won two

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, and was nominated for two more, in the category Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for his work on ''Hill Street Blues''. In 1981 he won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, along with Bochco and Gregory Hoblit.

Selected filmography

* ''

First Blood ''First Blood'' is a 1982 American war action film starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. Directed by Ted Kotcheff, the film was co-written by Michael Kozoll, William Sackheim, and Stallone, deriving from the 1972 no ...

'' (1982) * '' The Hard Way'' (1991)

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