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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Short Story Author, Show Creator Born: Mt. Vernon, NY Biography:Best known for his blockbuster HBO crime drama series The Sopranos, television multihyphenate David Chase (born David DeCesare) grew up, like his lead characters, in an Italian-American family in New Jersey. An only child, Chase discovered an inveterate propensity for storytelling and an immense love of cinema -- particularly gangster films -- at an early age, and reportedly spent countless hours in matinees. A taste of film production at the esteemed School for Visual Arts in New York introduced Chase to his life's calling; wanting more, he promptly abandoned his planned career as a rock drummer, headed to California, and enrolled in Stanford University's graduate-level film program, where he gravitated more to screenwriting than to hands-on production. After graduation, Chase established himself as a much sought-after scenarist with a marked gift for psychologically multilayered scripts that evinced... Full Biography
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