Charles Fredrick Adamson (June 11, 1936 – February 22, 2008) was an American police officer who served with theChicago Police Department as a sergeant detective from 1958 to 1974.^[1] He later became atelevision producer andscreenwriter,^[2] and made a few small appearances as an actor.

Adamson was best known for creating the televisioncrime dramaCrime Story,^[3] for which he won aPeople's Choice Award, and for writing episodes ofMiami Vice. The 1995 filmHeat, starringRobert De Niro andAl Pacino and directed byMichael Mann, is based on one of Adamson's more famous cases in Chicago from the 1960s.

He died in 2008 from lung cancer at age 71.^[4] Michael Mann's 2009 filmPublic Enemies featured the tribute in its closing credits "In memory of Chuck Adamson".

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