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The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

Joseph Wambaugh

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Joseph Wambaugh
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 22
Actor
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh
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