Gregory Hoblit Movies
Director Gregory Hoblit spun his success as part of the production team on three popular and influential television programs into a second career as director of a number of big-screen hits. Born in Texas in 1944, Gregory Hoblit's father was a law enforcement officer whose career took his family to California when Gregory was a child. Hoblit attended college in California, doing his... (read more) undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley and U.C.L.A., and returning to U.C.L.A. to receive his graduate degree in Film and Television. After leaving U.C.L.A., Hoblit found work in Chicago, where he produced and directed local television programs. Having established himself in the Midwest, Hoblit came back to California in the 1970s, where he produced and directed a variety of television projects, documentaries, and independent feature films. In 1979, Hoblit began a fruitful collaboration with noted television producer Steven Bochco; they were both producers on the short-lived series Paris (starring James Earl Jones), and Hoblit was later an executive producer on Bochco's groundbreaking police series Hill Street Blues. Hoblit went on to direct a number of episodes of Hill Street Blues, and in 1986, when Bochco helped create the series L.A. Law, Hoblit was tapped to direct the two-hour pilot film for the show, as well as a number of subsequent episodes. After his success with L.A. Law, Hoblit went on to produce and direct the acclaimed made-for-TV movie Roe vs. Wade, and in 1993 reteamed with Bochco as an executive producer for yet another acclaimed TV series involving crime and punishment in America, NYPD Blue. After a final made-for-TV movie, 1993's Class of '61, Hoblit scored his big break in theatrical filmmaking with the 1996 drama Primal Fear, which earned Edward Norton an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. After Primal Fear, Hoblit went on to direct two supernaturally themed dramas, Fallen and Frequency; in 2002, he returned with the period wartime drama Hart's War. ~ Rovi
Untraceable
R 2008
A serial killer with a sickening knack for showmanship and a keen sense of technological know-how sets up a graphic website to taunt the FBI and display his gruesome handiwork...
Fracture
R 2007
A structural engineer (Anthony Hopkins) and an ambitious young district attorney (Ryan Gosling) become locked in a deadly battle of wits when the former is found innocent in...
Emperor Zehnder
2005
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Hart's War
R 2002
Based on the novel by John Katzenbach, author of Just Cause (1995), this prison camp drama combines elements of A Soldier's Story (1984) and the classic Stalag 17...
NYPD Blue: Season 10
2002
As NYPD Blue entered its tenth season, there was a perception that the series had become flat and predictable, and that the leading characters were merely going through the...
NYPD Blue: Season 09
2001
At the end of NYPD Blue's eighth season, Danny Sorenson (Rick Schroder), the troubled young partner of the 15th precinct's Detective Andy Sipowicz (Dennis...
NYPD Blue: Season 08
2001
Season eight of NYPD Blue began minus the services of longtime executive producer David Milch, who left to develop a project of his own. Steven Bochco, who'd co-created...
Frequency
PG13 2000
Known more for his dark, psychological crime thrillers Primal Fear (1996) and Fallen (1998), director Gregory Hoblit surprisingly created this Frank Capra-meets-Rod...
NYPD Blue: Season 07
2000
Although the seventh season of NYPD Blue was supposed to begin on November 9, 1999, a variety of backstage intrigues involving the ABC network and the series' producers...
NYPD Blue: Season 06
1998
The big news attending NYPD Blue's sixth season was the imminent departure of series star Jimmy Smits, who played Det. Bobby Simone, the new husband of {%Det. Diane...
Fallen
R 1998
Directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear), Fallen is a blend of the police drama and supernatural thriller genres. Homicide detective John Hobbes (Denzel...
NYPD Blue: Season 05
1997
As expected, the opening episode of NYPD Blue's fifth season resolved the cliffhanger established at the end of season four, with 15th precinct detective Bobby Simone...
Primal Fear
R 1996
A high-profile slaying becomes the case of an ambitious attorney's career in this legal thriller based on the novel by William Diehl. Richard Gere stars as Martin Vail, a...
NYPD Blue: Season 04
1996
The fourth season of NYPD Blue saw the introduction of two important new cast members: Andrea Thompson as Detective Jill Kirkendall, fearless crime-fighter, single...
NYPD Blue: Season 03
1995
Like all good Steven Bochco projects, NYPD Blue continued to grow, evolve, and push the envelope throughout its third season. The year was a mixed one for the 15th...
NYPD Blue: Season 02
1994
The second season of NYPD Blue was transitional in every sense of the word, with a number of major cast changes and the deepening of characterizations within the people who...
NYPD Blue: Simone Says
1994
Jimmy Smits makes his first series appearance as recently widowed Detective Bobby Simone. Immediately upon joining the 15th Precinct, Simone is teamed with Sipowicz...
NYPD Blue: Trials and Tribulations
1994
NYPD Blue begins its second season with 15th Precinct police officer Janice Licalsi (Amy Brenneman) on trial for the killing of mob functionary Marino. Despite having...
Class of '61
1993
The titular year refers to the class of 1861, and the implied school is the venerable West Point Academy. This made-for-television drama centers on one of that classes most...
NYPD Blue: Rockin' Robin
1993
In the final episode of NYPD Blue's first season, Kelly (David Caruso) offers to stand by Janice (Amy Brenneman) as she goes to trial. Later on, Robin (Debrah...