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David Chase

March 16, 2023

David Henry Chase[1][2] (born August 22, 1945) is an American filmmaker. He wrote and produced the HBO drama The Sopranos which aired for six seasons between 1999 and 2007. Chase has also produced and written for such shows as The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away, and Northern Exposure. He created the original series Almost Grown which aired for 10 episodes in 1988 and 1989. He has won seven Emmy Awards. Chase's film debut came in 2012 with Not Fade Away, followed by The Many Saints of Newark (2021), a prequel film to the TV series The Sopranos.

David Chase
Chase at the U.S. embassy in Dublin, January 2015
Born
David Henry Chase

(1945-08-22) August 22, 1945 (age 77)
Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.
EducationNew York University (BA)
Stanford University (MA)
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • showrunner
  • director
  • producer
Years active1974–present
Known forCreator of The Sopranos
SpouseDenise Kelly
ChildrenMichele DeCesare

Early life and education

Chase was born into a working-class Italian American family in Mount Vernon, New York, the only child of Henry and Norma Chase.[3] His paternal grandmother had changed the family name from "DeCesare" to "Chase".[4] His father owned a hardware store.[5] He grew up in a small garden apartment in Clifton, New Jersey,[5] and in North Caldwell, New Jersey.[6] He grew up watching matinée crime films and was well known as a creative storyteller.[7]

He has stated that he had many problems with his parents when he was a child.[5] He says that his father was an angry man who belittled him constantly, and his mother was a "passive-aggressive drama queen" and a "nervous woman who dominated any situation she was in by being so needy and always on the verge of hysteria." A character he created for The Sopranos, Livia Soprano, is based on his mother.[8][9]

Chase struggled with panic attacks and clinical depression as a teenager, something he dealt with into adulthood. He graduated from high school in 1964 and attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where his depression worsened. "I slept 18 hours a day," he has stated. He described his problems as "normal, nagging, clinical depression."[5] He also worked as a drummer during this period and aspired to be a professional musician.[7] After two years, he transferred to New York University where he chose to pursue a career in film—a decision that was not well received by his parents. He went on to attend Stanford University's School of Film, earning a Master of Arts degree in 1971.[10]

Career

Chase started in Hollywood as a story editor for Kolchak: The Night Stalker and then produced episodes of The Rockford Files and Northern Exposure, among other series. He also worked as a writer of 19 episodes while on The Rockford Files—a show which he worked on in various capacities for more than four years.[5] He won several Emmy awards, including one for a television movie, Off the Minnesota Strip, the story of a runaway he scripted in 1980.[5] His first original created series was Almost Grown in 1988, with Eve Gordon and Timothy Daly.[11] Although the one-hour series was well received by critics,[12] only 10 episodes aired from November 1988 to February 1989.[13]

The Sopranos

Chase worked in relative anonymity before The Sopranos debuted.[5] The story of The Sopranos was initially conceived as a feature film about "a mobster in therapy having problems with his mother".[14] Chase got some input from his manager Lloyd Braun and decided to adapt it into a television series.[14] He signed a development deal in 1995 with production company Brillstein-Grey and wrote the original pilot script.[5][10][15] He drew heavily from his personal life and his experiences growing up in New Jersey, and has stated that he tried to apply his own "family dynamic to mobsters".[9] For instance, the tumultuous relationship between series protagonist Tony Soprano and his mother Livia is partially based on Chase's relationship with his own mother.[9] He was also in psychotherapy at the time and modeled the character of Jennifer Melfi after his own psychiatrist.[16]

Chase had been fascinated by organized crime and the mafia from an early age, witnessing such people growing up. He also was raised on classic gangster films such as The Public Enemy and the crime series The Untouchables. The series is partly inspired by the Richard Boiardo family, a prominent New Jersey organized crime family when Chase was growing up, and partly on New Jersey's DeCavalcante family.[17] He has mentioned American playwrights Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as influences on the show's writing, and Italian director Federico Fellini as an important influence on the show's cinematic style.[18][19][20] The series was named after high school friends of his.[21][16]

Chase and producer Brad Grey pitched The Sopranos to several networks; Fox showed interest but passed on it after Chase presented them the pilot script.[15] They eventually pitched the show to Chris Albrecht, president of HBO Original Programming, who decided to finance a pilot episode[5][10] which was shot in 1997.[22][23] Chase directed it himself. They finished the pilot and showed it to HBO executives, but the show was put on hold for several months. During this time, Chase, who had long experienced frustration at being unable to break out of TV and into film,[5] considered asking HBO for additional funding to shoot 45 more minutes of footage and release The Sopranos as a feature film. In December 1997, HBO decided to produce the series and ordered 12 more episodes for a 13-episode season.[5][10][24] The show premiered on HBO on January 10, 1999, with the pilot, The Sopranos.

Thirty episodes of The Sopranos are explicitly credited to Chase; however, as the show's creator, showrunner, and head writer, he had a major role in all the scripts, including producing and touching up each script's final draft.[25] He also directed the pilot episode and the series finale (both of which he also wrote).

Of the controversial final scene of the series finale, Chase said, "I have no interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting, or adding to what is there."[26] But in 2022, he did just that; David Chase and Phil Abrham created a 2022 Super Bowl spot for Commonwealth / McCann with two characters from the show who appear in a 2021 New York City/New Jersey setting.[27]

The Sopranos credits
Writer
Director
Actor
Chase appeared as a man sitting at an outdoor cafe in Naples, Italy smoking a cigarette in the season two episode "Commendatori". He also appeared as an airline passenger en route to Italy in season six's "Luxury Lounge". His voice was also used over the phone in the episode "The Test Dream".

Not Fade Away

Not Fade Away (2012), Chase's feature film debut, was released on December 21, 2012. It centers on the lead singer of a teenage rock 'n' roll band (played by John Magaro) in 1960s New Jersey.[28][29] Described as "a music-driven coming-of-age story," the film reunites Chase with James Gandolfini (former star of Sopranos), who co-stars as Magaro's father.[28] Other cast members include Bella Heathcote, Christopher McDonald, Molly Price, Lisa Lampanelli, Jack Huston and Brad Garrett. Chase himself has described the film as about "a post-war, post-Depression-era parent who has given his kid every advantage that he didn't have growing up, but now can't help feeling jealous of the liberated, more adventurous destiny his son is able to enjoy." Another former Sopranos cast member, Steven Van Zandt, served as music supervisor and executive producer.[30]

The Many Saints of Newark

Although Chase was "against [the movie] for a long time",[31] Deadline Hollywood reported in March 2018 that New Line Cinema had purchased the script for The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel to The Sopranos written by Chase and fellow screenwriter Lawrence Konner. Chase said of the storyline, which centers on the 1967 Newark riots and racial tensions between the Italian-American and African-American communities, "I was interested in Newark and life in Newark at that time... I used to go down there every Saturday night for dinner with my grandparents. But the thing that interested me most was Tony's boyhood. I was interested in exploring that."[31] Chase served as producer, and in July 2018, Alan Taylor, who previously directed episodes of the series, was hired to direct the film.[32] The film was initially scheduled to be released on September 25, 2020,[33] however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, its release date was rescheduled to March 12, 2021[34] and later September 24, 2021[35] before ultimately being released on October 1, 2021.

More recently, he and his Chase Films production company struck a deal with WarnerMedia.[36]

Unrealized projects

A Ribbon of Dreams

Chase has previously developed A Ribbon of Dreams, a miniseries for HBO. According to an HBO press release, the series' pilot would "begin in 1913 and follow two men, one a college-educated mechanical engineer, the other a cowboy with a violent past, who form an unlikely producing partnership and together become pioneers and then powers for a time in motion pictures." Specifically, the two men would "begin as employees of D.W. Griffith, and then cross career paths with John Ford, John Wayne, Raoul Walsh, Bette Davis, Billy Wilder and others who gave shape to Hollywood as it grew from the age of rough-hewn silent Westerns, to the golden era of talkies and the studio system, to the auteur movement, to television, and finally to the present day." In 2021, Chase revealed that HBO agreed to proceed with the production of the miniseries but with "a cheesy budget", to which Chase refused to agree. Therefore, Chase and HBO parted ways on the project and A Ribbon of Dreams fell through.[37] In March 2023, it was announced the series is back in development at FX.[38]

Personal life

After graduating from NYU in 1968, Chase moved to California and married his high school sweetheart Denise Kelly.[5] He is the father of actress Michele DeCesare, who appeared in six The Sopranos episodes as Hunter Scangarelo.[39]

Chase once stated that he "loathed and despised" television shows, watching only The Sopranos and movies.[40] However, he said in later interviews that he watched Boardwalk Empire and Mad Men, the work of former Sopranos writers and producers Terence Winter and Matthew Weiner, respectively. He said that he previously made those negative comments in part because he had been frustrated working within the confines of 1990s network television.[41][42]

Select filmography

Television

Year Title Director Writer Producer Creator Notes
1971 The Bold Ones: The Lawyers No Yes No No Episode: "In Defense of Ellen McKay"
1974 The Magician No Yes No No 7 episodes
1974–1975 Kolchak: The Night Stalker No Yes No No 8 episodes
Also story consultant
1975–1976 Switch No Yes No No 6 episodes
Also story consultant
1976–1979 The Rockford Files No Yes Yes No 20 episodes
1980 The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo No Story No No Episode: "Perkins Bombs Out"
Off the Minnesota Strip No Yes Yes No Television film
1982 Palms Precinct No Yes Executive Yes Pilot episode
Moonlight No Yes Executive No Television film
1986 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Yes Yes No No Episode: "Enough Rope for Two"
1988–1989 Almost Grown Yes No Executive Yes
1991–1993 I'll Fly Away Yes Yes Executive No 4 episodes
1993–1995 Northern Exposure No Yes Executive No Wrote 1 episode
1996 The Rockford Files: If the Frame Fits... No No Supervising No Television film
The Rockford Files: Godfather Knows Best No Yes Supervising No
The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play No No Supervising No
The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime Yes Yes Supervising No
1999–2007 The Sopranos Yes Yes Executive Yes Directed 2 episodes, wrote the script for 24 episodes and the story for 5 episodes
Also uncredited appearances in three episodes

Film

Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes
1972 Grave of the Vampire No Yes No Based on his novel The Still Life
2012 Not Fade Away Yes Yes Yes
2021 The Many Saints of Newark No Yes Yes Also Cameo appearance as Ercole "Eckley" DiMeo: a.k.a. "Old Man"

Other credits

Year Title Role
1969 The Cut Thorats Production manager
1972 Winter Love Unit manager
2017 BoJack Horseman Voice role: Himself
Episode: "See Mr. Peanutbutter Run"

Awards and recognition

References

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David Henry Chase 1 2 born August 22 1945 is an American filmmaker He wrote and produced the HBO drama The Sopranos which aired for six seasons between 1999 and 2007 Chase has also produced and written for such shows as The Rockford Files I ll Fly Away and Northern Exposure He created the original series Almost Grown which aired for 10 episodes in 1988 and 1989 He has won seven Emmy Awards Chase s film debut came in 2012 with Not Fade Away followed by The Many Saints of Newark 2021 a prequel film to the TV series The Sopranos David ChaseChase at the U S embassy in Dublin January 2015BornDavid Henry Chase 1945 08 22 August 22 1945 age 77 Mount Vernon New York U S EducationNew York University BA Stanford University MA OccupationsScreenwritershowrunnerdirectorproducerYears active1974 presentKnown forCreator of The SopranosSpouseDenise KellyChildrenMichele DeCesare Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 The Sopranos 2 2 Not Fade Away 2 3 The Many Saints of Newark 3 Unrealized projects 3 1 A Ribbon of Dreams 4 Personal life 5 Select filmography 5 1 Television 5 2 Film 5 3 Other credits 6 Awards and recognition 7 References 8 External linksEarly life and education EditChase was born into a working class Italian American family in Mount Vernon New York the only child of Henry and Norma Chase 3 His paternal grandmother had changed the family name from DeCesare to Chase 4 His father owned a hardware store 5 He grew up in a small garden apartment in Clifton New Jersey 5 and in North Caldwell New Jersey 6 He grew up watching matinee crime films and was well known as a creative storyteller 7 He has stated that he had many problems with his parents when he was a child 5 He says that his father was an angry man who belittled him constantly and his mother was a passive aggressive drama queen and a nervous woman who dominated any situation she was in by being so needy and always on the verge of hysteria A character he created for The Sopranos Livia Soprano is based on his mother 8 9 Chase struggled with panic attacks and clinical depression as a teenager something he dealt with into adulthood He graduated from high school in 1964 and attended Wake Forest University in Winston Salem North Carolina where his depression worsened I slept 18 hours a day he has stated He described his problems as normal nagging clinical depression 5 He also worked as a drummer during this period and aspired to be a professional musician 7 After two years he transferred to New York University where he chose to pursue a career in film a decision that was not well received by his parents He went on to attend Stanford University s School of Film earning a Master of Arts degree in 1971 10 Career EditChase started in Hollywood as a story editor for Kolchak The Night Stalker and then produced episodes of The Rockford Files and Northern Exposure among other series He also worked as a writer of 19 episodes while on The Rockford Files a show which he worked on in various capacities for more than four years 5 He won several Emmy awards including one for a television movie Off the Minnesota Strip the story of a runaway he scripted in 1980 5 His first original created series was Almost Grown in 1988 with Eve Gordon and Timothy Daly 11 Although the one hour series was well received by critics 12 only 10 episodes aired from November 1988 to February 1989 13 The Sopranos Edit Chase worked in relative anonymity before The Sopranos debuted 5 The story of The Sopranos was initially conceived as a feature film about a mobster in therapy having problems with his mother 14 Chase got some input from his manager Lloyd Braun and decided to adapt it into a television series 14 He signed a development deal in 1995 with production company Brillstein Grey and wrote the original pilot script 5 10 15 He drew heavily from his personal life and his experiences growing up in New Jersey and has stated that he tried to apply his own family dynamic to mobsters 9 For instance the tumultuous relationship between series protagonist Tony Soprano and his mother Livia is partially based on Chase s relationship with his own mother 9 He was also in psychotherapy at the time and modeled the character of Jennifer Melfi after his own psychiatrist 16 Chase had been fascinated by organized crime and the mafia from an early age witnessing such people growing up He also was raised on classic gangster films such as The Public Enemy and the crime series The Untouchables The series is partly inspired by the Richard Boiardo family a prominent New Jersey organized crime family when Chase was growing up and partly on New Jersey s DeCavalcante family 17 He has mentioned American playwrights Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as influences on the show s writing and Italian director Federico Fellini as an important influence on the show s cinematic style 18 19 20 The series was named after high school friends of his 21 16 Chase and producer Brad Grey pitched The Sopranos to several networks Fox showed interest but passed on it after Chase presented them the pilot script 15 They eventually pitched the show to Chris Albrecht president of HBO Original Programming who decided to finance a pilot episode 5 10 which was shot in 1997 22 23 Chase directed it himself They finished the pilot and showed it to HBO executives but the show was put on hold for several months During this time Chase who had long experienced frustration at being unable to break out of TV and into film 5 considered asking HBO for additional funding to shoot 45 more minutes of footage and release The Sopranos as a feature film In December 1997 HBO decided to produce the series and ordered 12 more episodes for a 13 episode season 5 10 24 The show premiered on HBO on January 10 1999 with the pilot The Sopranos Thirty episodes of The Sopranos are explicitly credited to Chase however as the show s creator showrunner and head writer he had a major role in all the scripts including producing and touching up each script s final draft 25 He also directed the pilot episode and the series finale both of which he also wrote Of the controversial final scene of the series finale Chase said I have no interest in explaining defending reinterpreting or adding to what is there 26 But in 2022 he did just that David Chase and Phil Abrham created a 2022 Super Bowl spot for Commonwealth McCann with two characters from the show who appear in a 2021 New York City New Jersey setting 27 The Sopranos creditsWriter The Sopranos episode 1 01 46 Long episode 1 02 College episode 1 05 with Jim Manos Jr The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti episode 1 08 with Frank Renzulli I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano episode 1 13 Commendatori episode 2 04 Funhouse episode 2 13 with Todd A Kessler Mr Ruggerio s Neighborhood episode 3 01 Proshai Livushka episode 3 02 University episode 3 06 story credit Amour Fou episode 3 12 story credit Army of One episode 3 13 with Lawrence Konner For All Debts Public and Private episode 4 01 No Show episode 4 02 with Terence Winter Watching Too Much Television episode 4 07 story credit Mergers and Acquisitions episode 4 08 story credit The Strong Silent Type episode 4 10 story credit Calling All Cars episode 4 11 with Robin Green amp Mitchell Burgess and David Flebotte Whitecaps episode 4 13 with Robin Green amp Mitchell Burgess Two Tonys episode 5 01 with Terence Winter The Test Dream episode 5 11 with Matthew Weiner All Due Respect episode 5 13 with Robin Green amp Mitchell Burgess Join the Club episode 6 02 Live Free or Die episode 6 06 with Robin Green amp Mitchell Burgess and Terence Winter Cold Stones episode 6 11 with Diane Frolov amp Andrew Schneider Kaisha episode 6 12 with Matthew Weiner and Terence Winter Soprano Home Movies episode 6 13 with Diane Frolov amp Andrew Schneider and Matthew Weiner Kennedy and Heidi episode 6 18 with Matthew Weiner The Blue Comet episode 6 20 with Matthew Weiner Made in America episode 6 21 Director The Sopranos episode 1 01 Made in America episode 6 21 Actor Chase appeared as a man sitting at an outdoor cafe in Naples Italy smoking a cigarette in the season two episode Commendatori He also appeared as an airline passenger en route to Italy in season six s Luxury Lounge His voice was also used over the phone in the episode The Test Dream Not Fade Away Edit Not Fade Away 2012 Chase s feature film debut was released on December 21 2012 It centers on the lead singer of a teenage rock n roll band played by John Magaro in 1960s New Jersey 28 29 Described as a music driven coming of age story the film reunites Chase with James Gandolfini former star of Sopranos who co stars as Magaro s father 28 Other cast members include Bella Heathcote Christopher McDonald Molly Price Lisa Lampanelli Jack Huston and Brad Garrett Chase himself has described the film as about a post war post Depression era parent who has given his kid every advantage that he didn t have growing up but now can t help feeling jealous of the liberated more adventurous destiny his son is able to enjoy Another former Sopranos cast member Steven Van Zandt served as music supervisor and executive producer 30 The Many Saints of Newark Edit Although Chase was against the movie for a long time 31 Deadline Hollywood reported in March 2018 that New Line Cinema had purchased the script for The Many Saints of Newark a prequel to The Sopranos written by Chase and fellow screenwriter Lawrence Konner Chase said of the storyline which centers on the 1967 Newark riots and racial tensions between the Italian American and African American communities I was interested in Newark and life in Newark at that time I used to go down there every Saturday night for dinner with my grandparents But the thing that interested me most was Tony s boyhood I was interested in exploring that 31 Chase served as producer and in July 2018 Alan Taylor who previously directed episodes of the series was hired to direct the film 32 The film was initially scheduled to be released on September 25 2020 33 however due to the COVID 19 pandemic in the United States its release date was rescheduled to March 12 2021 34 and later September 24 2021 35 before ultimately being released on October 1 2021 More recently he and his Chase Films production company struck a deal with WarnerMedia 36 Unrealized projects EditA Ribbon of Dreams Edit Chase has previously developed A Ribbon of Dreams a miniseries for HBO According to an HBO press release the series pilot would begin in 1913 and follow two men one a college educated mechanical engineer the other a cowboy with a violent past who form an unlikely producing partnership and together become pioneers and then powers for a time in motion pictures Specifically the two men would begin as employees of D W Griffith and then cross career paths with John Ford John Wayne Raoul Walsh Bette Davis Billy Wilder and others who gave shape to Hollywood as it grew from the age of rough hewn silent Westerns to the golden era of talkies and the studio system to the auteur movement to television and finally to the present day In 2021 Chase revealed that HBO agreed to proceed with the production of the miniseries but with a cheesy budget to which Chase refused to agree Therefore Chase and HBO parted ways on the project and A Ribbon of Dreams fell through 37 In March 2023 it was announced the series is back in development at FX 38 Personal life EditAfter graduating from NYU in 1968 Chase moved to California and married his high school sweetheart Denise Kelly 5 He is the father of actress Michele DeCesare who appeared in six The Sopranos episodes as Hunter Scangarelo 39 Chase once stated that he loathed and despised television shows watching only The Sopranos and movies 40 However he said in later interviews that he watched Boardwalk Empire and Mad Men the work of former Sopranos writers and producers Terence Winter and Matthew Weiner respectively He said that he previously made those negative comments in part because he had been frustrated working within the confines of 1990s network television 41 42 Select filmography EditTelevision Edit Year Title Director Writer Producer Creator Notes1971 The Bold Ones The Lawyers No Yes No No Episode In Defense of Ellen McKay 1974 The Magician No Yes No No 7 episodes1974 1975 Kolchak The Night Stalker No Yes No No 8 episodesAlso story consultant1975 1976 Switch No Yes No No 6 episodesAlso story consultant1976 1979 The Rockford Files No Yes Yes No 20 episodes1980 The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo No Story No No Episode Perkins Bombs Out Off the Minnesota Strip No Yes Yes No Television film1982 Palms Precinct No Yes Executive Yes Pilot episodeMoonlight No Yes Executive No Television film1986 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Yes Yes No No Episode Enough Rope for Two 1988 1989 Almost Grown Yes No Executive Yes1991 1993 I ll Fly Away Yes Yes Executive No 4 episodes1993 1995 Northern Exposure No Yes Executive No Wrote 1 episode1996 The Rockford Files If the Frame Fits No No Supervising No Television filmThe Rockford Files Godfather Knows Best No Yes Supervising NoThe Rockford Files Friends and Foul Play No No Supervising NoThe Rockford Files Punishment and Crime Yes Yes Supervising No1999 2007 The Sopranos Yes Yes Executive Yes Directed 2 episodes wrote the script for 24 episodes and the story for 5 episodesAlso uncredited appearances in three episodesFilm Edit Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes1972 Grave of the Vampire No Yes No Based on his novel The Still Life2012 Not Fade Away Yes Yes Yes2021 The Many Saints of Newark No Yes Yes Also Cameo appearance as Ercole Eckley DiMeo a k a Old Man Other credits Edit Year Title Role1969 The Cut Thorats Production manager1972 Winter Love Unit manager2017 BoJack Horseman Voice role HimselfEpisode See Mr Peanutbutter Run Awards and recognition Edit1978 Emmy Award Winner Outstanding Drama Series The Rockford Files 1979 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Drama Series The Rockford Files 1980 Golden Globe Award Nomination Best Television Series Drama The Rockford Files 1980 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Drama Series The Rockford Files 1980 Emmy Award Winner Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special Off The Minnesota Strip 1992 Golden Globe Award Nomination Best Television Series Drama I ll Fly Away 1992 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Drama Series I ll Fly Away 1992 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series I ll Fly Away Pilot 1993 Golden Globe Award Nomination Best Television Series Drama I ll Fly Away 1993 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Drama Series I ll Fly Away 1994 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Drama Series Northern Exposure 1999 Golden Globe Award Winner Best Television Series Drama The Sopranos 1999 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Drama Series The Sopranos 1999 Emmy Award Winner Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series The Sopranos College 1999 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series The Sopranos Pilot 1999 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Directing for A Drama Series The Sopranos Pilot 2000 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Drama Series The Sopranos 2001 Golden Globe Award Nomination Best Television Series Drama The Sopranos 2001 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series The Sopranos Funhouse 2001 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Drama Series The Sopranos 2001 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series The Sopranos Amour Fou 2002 Golden Globe Award Nomination Best Television Series Drama The Sopranos 2003 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Drama Series The Sopranos 2003 Emmy Award Winner Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series The Sopranos Whitecaps 2004 Golden Globe Award Nomination Best Television Series Drama The Sopranos 2004 Emmy Award Winner Outstanding Drama Series The Sopranos 2006 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Drama Series The Sopranos 2007 Emmy Award Winner Outstanding Drama Series The Sopranos 2007 Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series The Sopranos Kennedy and Heidi 2007 Emmy Award Winner Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series The Sopranos Made in America 2008 Laurel Award for TV Writing AchievementReferences Edit Says his name was not David DeCesare at birth in this interview https interviews televisionacademy com interviews david chase Archived March 31 2019 at the Wayback Machine Fleming Mike Jr September 7 2021 David Chase On Reviving Sopranos Spirit With The Many Saints Of Newark And High Interest In Another Prequel Film Deadline Retrieved September 8 2021 Boss of Bosses The Star Ledger Archived from the original on April 26 2007 TELEVISION RADIO The Son Who Created A Hit The Sopranos The New York Times June 6 1999 Archived from the original on November 8 2020 Retrieved January 29 2021 a b c d e f g h i j k l Biskind Peter April 4 2007 How David Chase and The Sopranos Changed Television Forever Vanity Fair Archived from the original on August 24 2020 Retrieved May 1 2020 DeCaro Frank April 4 1999 No Longer the Punch Line State Lauryn Hill the Sopranos and others are unapologetic New Jerseyans The New York Times Archived from the original on July 29 2018 Growing up in Clifton and North Caldwell Mr Chase said New Jersey seemed very exciting and very mysterious not dull and predictable as many New Yorkers like to believe a b David Chase Creator Archived February 19 2012 at the Wayback Machine HBO com accessed May 6 2007 Martin Brett October 30 2007 Once You re in this Family There s No Getting Out Meet the Sopranos The Sopranos The Complete Book New York City Time Inc pp 54 55 ISBN 978 1 933821 18 4 a b c Dougherty Robin January 20 1999 Chasing TV Salon com Archived from the original on January 8 2014 Retrieved December 6 2013 a b c d Oxfeld Jesse September 2002 Family Man Stanford Magazine Archived from the original on January 27 2013 Retrieved September 22 2007 Baker Kathryn November 23 1988 Wichita Eagle Almost Grown tells story of growing up Section Lifestyle Page 9A Bark Ed 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David Chase profile at HBO com HBO Archived from the original on February 19 2012 Retrieved November 14 2007 It was originally referred to as Pilot but was renamed The Sopranos on the DVD release Flaherty Michael June 8 2007 Sopranos signoff marks end of era The Hollywood Reporter Archived from the original on September 21 2007 Retrieved November 11 2007 Martin 2007 p 16 Wolk Josh April 6 2007 Burying the Sopranos Entertainment Weekly Archived from the original on October 9 2007 Retrieved July 19 2007 Chase oversees everything from writing the final polish on all scripts to supervising the editing of each episode Alan Sepinwall June 11 2007 David Chase speaks The Star Ledger Archived from the original on August 10 2011 Retrieved May 14 2009 A Sopranos Expert Analyzes Chevy s Meadow and AJ Super Bowl Commercial Rolling Stone February 13 2022 a b McNary Dave January 24 2011 Gandolfini Chase reconnect at Twylight Variety Archived from the original on January 31 2011 Retrieved February 1 2011 Gandolfini s on board to portray the father of a teen in a rock band set in 1960s suburbia John Magaro will play his son Chase creator of The Sopranos signed on in 2008 to write direct and produce the feature Andreeva Nellie January 24 2011 Sopranos Big Screen Reunion James Gandolfini Joins David Chase s New Movie Deadline Hollywood Mail com Media Corporation Archived from the original on January 5 2020 Retrieved February 1 2011 The Paramount produced Twylight Zones is described as a drama about a New Jersey Rock n Roll band and the musical renaissance of the 1960s It centers on Douglas John Magaro a socially awkward teen who begins to shine as lead singer in his band The Twylight Zones Gandolfini will play his father Jay A Fernandez March 8 2010 Sopranos creator to direct coming of age film The Hollywood Reporter Archived from the original on March 12 2010 Retrieved April 13 2010 Brad Garrett Moves To David Chase s Musical Movie NextMovie February 3 2011 Archived from the 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Archived from the original on January 14 2021 Retrieved January 13 2021 White Peter October 1 2021 David Chase Strikes Five Year First Look TV amp Film Deal With WarnerMedia Deadline Retrieved October 2 2021 David Chase on The Sopranos Legacy amp The Many Saints of Newark YouTube Archived from the original on November 7 2021 David Chase amp Hannah Fidell Developing New Show At FX Deadline Oxfeld Jesse September October 2002 Family Man Stanford Magazine Archived from the original on February 20 2012 Retrieved February 13 2012 Pearson Roberta 2011 Cult Television as Digital Television s Cutting Edge In Bennett James Strange Niki eds Television as Digital Media Duke University Press p 113 ISBN 978 0 8223 4910 5 Marlow Stern September 4 2014 thedailybeast gt September 2014 gt Feature Entertainment gt The Daily Beast thedailybeast com Archived from the original on September 17 2014 Retrieved September 17 2014 Collins Andrew May 21 2013 The Week in TV Game of Thrones Mad Men and The Fall video The Guardian Archived from the original on November 4 2013 Retrieved May 21 2013 External links EditDavid Chase at IMDb David Chase at The Interviews An Oral History of Television Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title David Chase amp oldid 1143779235, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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