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The District is a television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 police drama
Police procedural

The police procedural is a sub-genre of the detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes....
 which aired on CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
's Police Department
Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia

The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, also known as the DC Police, DCPD, MPD, and MPDC is the township police force for Washington, D.C....
 (MPDC).

he District was inspired by real-life experience of former New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 Deputy Police Commissioner Jack Maple. Along with Police Commissioner William Bratton they had reorganized the NYPD and one of the achievements was the CompStat
CompStat

CompStat?or COMPSTAT? is the name given to the New York City Police Department's accountability process and has since been replicated in many other departments....
 program (comparative statistics) since 1994 that has its own major role in the TV series.






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The District is a television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 police drama
Police procedural

The police procedural is a sub-genre of the detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes....
 which aired on CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
's Police Department
Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia

The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, also known as the DC Police, DCPD, MPD, and MPDC is the township police force for Washington, D.C....
 (MPDC).

Premise

The District was inspired by real-life experience of former New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 Deputy Police Commissioner Jack Maple. Along with Police Commissioner William Bratton they had reorganized the NYPD and one of the achievements was the CompStat
CompStat

CompStat?or COMPSTAT? is the name given to the New York City Police Department's accountability process and has since been replicated in many other departments....
 program (comparative statistics) since 1994 that has its own major role in the TV series. After the success in New York the CompStat program has really been adapted by other cities however Jack Maple himself chose to publish his experiences - along with Chris Mitchell
Chris Mitchell

Chris Mitchell is an Australian journalism and is editor-in-chief of The Australian. He began his career on the former afternoon tabloid, The Telegraph, in 1973 and after working on The Townsville Bulletin, the Daily Telegraph and the Australian Financial Review, became editor of The Australian in 2003....
 he wrote a book ("The Crime Fighter", 2000) and along with Terry George
Terry George

Terry George is an Irish people screenwriting and film director. Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland much of his film work involves the Troubles in Northern Ireland....
 he prepared a TV series concept. His impact on the story line is limited for he died of colon cancer on August 4, 2001.

Primary filming was in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, with some location shooting in Washington.

Main Cast

  • Craig T. Nelson
    Craig T. Nelson

    Craig Theodore Nelson is an United States actor.Nelson was born in Spokane, Washington to a drummer father. Because another Craig Richard Nelson was registered with the Screen Actors Guild, he registered as Craig Theodore Nelson....
     as Chief Jack Mannion
    Chief Jack Mannion

    Jack Mannion is the new District of Columbia Chief of Police in the fictional television show The District. He is portrayed as a tough man of the people....
  • Lynne Thigpen
    Lynne Thigpen

    Cherlynne Theresa ?Lynne? Thigpen was an United States stage and television actor....
     as Ella Mae Farmer (2000-2003)
  • Roger Aaron Brown
    Roger Aaron Brown

    Roger Aaron Brown is an United States character actor known for his role as Deputy Chief Joe Noland on the hit CBS drama series The District from 2000 to 2004, as well as for his role in the 1988 science fiction film Alien Nation as Det....
     as Deputy Chief Joe Noland
  • Sean Patrick Thomas
    Sean Patrick Thomas

    Sean Patrick Thomas is an United States actor. He is perhaps best known for his starring role in the 2001 film, Save the Last Dance....
     as Officer/Detective Temple Page
  • Elizabeth Marvel as Officer/Detective Nancy Parras
  • Jonathan LaPaglia
    Jonathan LaPaglia

    Jonathan LaPaglia, M.B.B.S. is an Australian actor best known for his role as Frank Parker in the television series Seven Days . He is the younger brother of Australian actor Anthony LaPaglia....
     as Detective Kevin Debreno (2001-2004)
  • Justin Theroux
    Justin Theroux

    Justin Theroux is an United States actor, screenwriter and Film director....
     as Nick Pierce (2000-2002)
  • David O'Hara
    David O'Hara

    David Patrick O'Hara is a Scotland actor.O'Hara was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Martha and Patrick O'Hara, a construction worker. He has appeared in many movies and TV series, including a featured role in the U.S....
     as Detective Danny McGregor (2000-2001)
  • Jayne Brook
    Jayne Brook

    Jayne Brook is an United States actress, known for her role as Dr. Diane Grad on the medical drama Chicago Hope. She appeared on the series from 1995 to 1999....
     as Deputy Mayor Mary Ann Mitchell (2000-2001)

Recurring Guests

  • Jaclyn Smith
    Jaclyn Smith

    Jaclyn Ellen Smith , is a Golden Globe-nominated United States actor. She is best known for the role of Kelly Garrett in the television series Charlie's Angels, and was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run ....
     as Vanessa Cavanaugh (2002 -2004)
  • John Amos
    John Amos

    John Amos is an United States actor and former American football player who has received both a Primetime Emmy Award and the NAACP Image Awards....
     as Mayor Ethan Baker (2000-2001)
  • Wayne Duvall
    Wayne Duvall

    Wayne Duvall is an American actor, known for playing Homer Stokes on O Brother Where Art Thou?, and also playing Sgt. Phil Brander on The District ....
     as Sgt. Phil Brander
  • In 2001, Jean Smart
    Jean Smart

    Jean E. Smart is a multiple Emmy Award-winning United States film, television, and stage actor. Smart is particularly known for her comedic roles, one of the best known being her role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS Television Network sitcom Designing Women....
     was nominated for an Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     for "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series" for her performance as "Sherry Regan".
  • On March 12, 2003, original cast member Lynne Thigpen
    Lynne Thigpen

    Cherlynne Theresa ?Lynne? Thigpen was an United States stage and television actor....
     died at her Marina del Rey, California
    Marina del Rey, California

    Marina del Rey is a seaside unincorporated area of Los Angeles County, California. Its Fisherman's Village offers a view of Marina del Rey's dominant feature as one of the largest man-made small boat harbors in the U.S., with 19 marinas with capacity for 5,300 boats....
     home of a cerebral hemorrhage. The show paid tribute to her character in the third season finale.


Main Crew Members


Directors

  • Christopher Taylor
  • David Jackson
    David Jackson

    David Jackson may refer to:* David Jackson , American physician, Continental Congressman for Pennsylvania* David Edward Jackson , American explorer, frontiersman, and trapper...
      (5 episodes, 2001-2003)
  • Kevin Dowling
    Kevin Dowling

    Kevin Patrick Dowling is the Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Rustenburg in South Africa. He is best known for his position, contradicting the official Vatican position, that the Catholic Church should reverse its position on the use of condoms to prevent HIV transmission....
      (4 episodes, 2001-2003)
  • Jerry Levine
    Jerry Levine

    Jerry Levine is an United States actor and director, best known for his role as Rupert 'Styles' Stilinski in Teen Wolf. He also appears in Oliver Stone's Vietnam movie Born on the Fourth of July ....
      (4 episodes, 2001-2003)
  • Terry George
    Terry George

    Terry George is an Irish people screenwriting and film director. Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland much of his film work involves the Troubles in Northern Ireland....
      (3 episodes, 2000-2001)
  • Deran Sarafian
    Deran Sarafian

    Deran Sarafian is an United States actor, film director and television director.Sarafian has directed several episodes of the Fox Broadcasting Company series House and was made a co-executive producer of the show for the 2007/08 season....
      (3 episodes, 2001-2003)
  • James Chory (3 episodes, 2002-2003)
  • Oz Scott
    Oz Scott

    Osborne "Oz" E. Scott is an United States screenwriter, television producer, film director, Television director, and theatre director....
      (3 episodes, 2003-2004)
  • Jim Charleston (2 episodes, 2002-2003)
  • Craig T. Nelson
    Craig T. Nelson

    Craig Theodore Nelson is an United States actor.Nelson was born in Spokane, Washington to a drummer father. Because another Craig Richard Nelson was registered with the Screen Actors Guild, he registered as Craig Theodore Nelson....
      (2 episodes, 2002-2003)
  • Pam Veasey (2 episodes, 2002-2003)
  • Blake T. Evans (unknown episodes)
  • Joe Ann Fogle (unknown episodes)
  • Rick Rosenthal
    Rick Rosenthal

    Richard L. "Rick" Rosenthal, Jr. is an American film director known for his work in both film and television....
      (unknown episodes)
  • Sandy Smolan
    Sandy Smolan

    Sandy Smolan is a television director....

Writers

  • Linda Gase
  • Sadhbh Walshe
  • Peter M. Lenkov
  • Pam Veasey (3 episodes, 2003-2004)
  • Bruce Zimmerman
    Bruce Zimmerman

    Bruce Zimmerman is a U.S. novelist, screenwriter, and television producer. Among the television series which Zimmerman has worked on are Desperate Housewives, CSI: NY, K-Ville, The District, Judging Amy, Reunion, So Weird, and Street Time....
      (3 episodes, 2003-2004)
  • Anthony Sparks
    Anthony Sparks

    Anthony Sparks is an American television writer-producer, playwright, and essayist. His writing credits include the critically acclaimed ABC Family series, Lincoln Heights and the CBS cop drama The District....
      (2 episodes, 2003-2004)
  • Jasmine Love (2 episodes, 2003)
  • John Wirth
    John Wirth

    John D. Wirth was the Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies at Stanford University. Wirth earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1958 and a doctorate in Latin American history in 1967 from Stanford....
      (2 episodes, 2003)
  • Jonathan Lisco (1 episode, 2003)
  • Terry George
    Terry George

    Terry George is an Irish people screenwriting and film director. Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland much of his film work involves the Troubles in Northern Ireland....
  • Jack Maple
  • Hans Beimler
    Hans Beimler

    Hans Anthony Beimler is a Germans Jew who grew up in Mexico and is best known for his writing work on the Star Trek franchise, particularly Star Trek: Deep Space Nine....
     
  • Michael Daly
  • Andrew Dettmann
  • Tom Horn
    Tom Horn

    Tom Horn was an United States Old West lawman, Reconnaissance, soldier, hired gunfighter, detective, outlaw and assassin. On the day before his 43rd birthday, he was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming for murder....
     
  • Aaron Iverson
  • Lynn Marie Latham
    Lynn Marie Latham

    Lynn Marie Latham is an United States television writer and producer. Her initial foray into writing for television was as a story editor for the short-lived series Berrenger's in 1985....
  • Greggory Nations
    Greggory Nations

    Greggory "Gregg" Nations is an United States television writer and script coordinator. He wrote several episodes for The District and Nash Bridges with Carlton Cuse....
     
  • Craig T. Nelson
    Craig T. Nelson

    Craig Theodore Nelson is an United States actor.Nelson was born in Spokane, Washington to a drummer father. Because another Craig Richard Nelson was registered with the Screen Actors Guild, he registered as Craig Theodore Nelson....
  • Brigid O'Connor Maple
  • Alan Ormsby
    Alan Ormsby

    Alan Ormsby is an United States film director, screenwriter, make up artist, actor and author. He is best known for his work in the horror genre....
     
  • Michael Ostrowski
  • Frederick Rappaport (Creative Consultant
    Creative consultant

    Creative consultant is a credit that has - particularly in the past - been given to screenwriters who have script doctor a movie screenplay. It is often given by producers in lieu of official credit....
    )
  • Tom Spezialy
    Tom Spezialy

    Tom Spezialy is an United States television producer, Television director and screen writer. In 2007, began serving as executive producer of Reaper ....
  • Reed Steiner
  • Jason Wilborn

Producers

  • Pam Veasey .... co-executive producer / executive producer (66 episodes, 2001-2004)
  • Hans Beimler
    Hans Beimler

    Hans Anthony Beimler is a Germans Jew who grew up in Mexico and is best known for his writing work on the Star Trek franchise, particularly Star Trek: Deep Space Nine....
     .... co-executive producer (23 episodes, 2000-2001)
  • Peter M. Lenkov .... co-executive producer (22 episodes, 2003-2004)
  • Bruce Zimmerman
    Bruce Zimmerman

    Bruce Zimmerman is a U.S. novelist, screenwriter, and television producer. Among the television series which Zimmerman has worked on are Desperate Housewives, CSI: NY, K-Ville, The District, Judging Amy, Reunion, So Weird, and Street Time....
     .... supervising producer (22 episodes, 2003-2004)
  • Craig T. Nelson
    Craig T. Nelson

    Craig Theodore Nelson is an United States actor.Nelson was born in Spokane, Washington to a drummer father. Because another Craig Richard Nelson was registered with the Screen Actors Guild, he registered as Craig Theodore Nelson....
     .... co-executive producer (2 episodes, 2002-2004)
  • Denise Di Novi
    Denise Di Novi

    Denise Di Novi is an American film producer....
     .... executive producer (2 episodes, 2003-2004)
  • David Fallon .... co-producer (2 episodes, 2003-2004)
  • Patricia Green
    Patricia Green

    Patricia Green is an American television producer and writer....
     .... consulting producer (2 episodes, 2003-2004)
  • Geoffrey Hemwall .... co-producer (2 episodes, 2003-2004)
  • Tom Irvine .... producer (2 episodes, 2003-2004)
  • Cleve Landsberg .... co-producer (2 episodes, 2003-2004)
  • Jonathan Lisco .... co-producer (2 episodes, 2003-2004)
  • Oz Scott
    Oz Scott

    Osborne "Oz" E. Scott is an United States screenwriter, television producer, film director, Television director, and theatre director....
     .... supervising producer (2 episodes, 2003-2004)
  • Tom Spezialy
    Tom Spezialy

    Tom Spezialy is an United States television producer, Television director and screen writer. In 2007, began serving as executive producer of Reaper ....
     .... co-executive producer (2 episodes, 2003-2004)
  • Linda Gase .... co-producer (unknown episodes, 2001)
  • Alicia Hirsch .... co-producer (unknown episodes, 2002)
  • James Chory .... executive producer / producer (unknown episodes, 2003)
  • P. Todd Coe .... co-producer (unknown episodes)
  • Terry George
    Terry George

    Terry George is an Irish people screenwriting and film director. Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland much of his film work involves the Troubles in Northern Ireland....
     .... executive producer (unknown episodes)
  • Joel Hatch .... line producer: DC unit (unknown episodes)
  • Jake Jacobson .... co-producer (unknown episodes)
  • Lynn Marie Latham
    Lynn Marie Latham

    Lynn Marie Latham is an United States television writer and producer. Her initial foray into writing for television was as a story editor for the short-lived series Berrenger's in 1985....
     .... executive producer
  • Dean White
    Dean White

    Dean White is a billionaire entrepreneur from Crown Point, Indiana. His father challenged him to "make a million dollars by your 40th birthday"....
     .... co-producer
  • John Wirth
    John Wirth

    John D. Wirth was the Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies at Stanford University. Wirth earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1958 and a doctorate in Latin American history in 1967 from Stanford....

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