Daniel Petrie, Jr., the son of Daniel Petrie, Sr., is perhaps best known as the one of the screenwriters of the mid-1980s hit movie, Beverly Hills Cop. Daniel M. Petrie (November 26, 1920, Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada - August 22, 2004, Los Angeles, California) was a television and movie director. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... Beverly Hills Cop (1984) is an American action comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. ...
He is currently (October 2004) president of the western chapter of the Writers Guild of America. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries. ...
LOS ANGELES -- DanielPetrie, who directed "A Raisin in the Sun" and "Fort Apache, The Bronx" and won Emmy awards during a half-century career in movies and television, died of cancer Sunday at his Los Angeles home, said his son, DanielPetrieJr.
Petrie won directing Emmys for 1976's "Eleanor and Franklin" and for "Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years" in 1977.
Petrie also wrote and directed a 1984 autobiographical movie, "The Bay Boy," which won Genie awards, Canada's equivalent of the Oscar, for best picture and best screenplay.
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