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name: "Daniel Petrie Jr."
canonical: "https://film.one/person/daniel-petrie-jr"
fi1m_id: "daniel-petrie-jr"
imdb_id: "nm0677943"
tmdb_id: 774
wikidata_id: "Q540455"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "30 November 1951"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 52
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T19:56:08.819576+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Daniel Petrie Jr.

## Identity

Daniel Petrie Jr.

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/daniel-petrie-jr
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** daniel-petrie-jr
- **IMDb ID:** nm0677943
- **TMDB ID:** 774
- **Wikidata ID:** Q540455
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Petrie_Jr., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q540455, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677943/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/774

Writer. Born 30 November 1951 in Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 30 November 1951, Canada
- **Active:** 1984–1987
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 52, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Petrie_Jr., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q540455, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677943/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/774

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*Beverly Hills Cop*](https://film.one/film/beverly-hills-cop.md) (55)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Daniel Petrie Jr. is a Canadian-American screenwriter, producer and director. He is the son of film director Daniel Petrie and producer Dorothea G. Petrie.

His screenplay and story credits on *Beverly Hills Cop* (1984) earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, shared with Danilo Bach. Other writing credits include *The Big Easy* (1986), *Shoot to Kill* (1988) and *Turner & Hooch* (1989). He also directed and co-wrote *Toy Soldiers* (1991) and *In the Army Now* (1994). Petrie served as president of the Writers Guild of America, West from 1997 to 1999 and again from 2004 to 2006.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, reference.org, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Beverly Hills Cop II* (1987), Fi1m 48, Characters — [page](https://film.one/film/beverly-hills-cop-ii.md)
- *Beverly Hills Cop* (1984), Fi1m 55, Screenplay, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/beverly-hills-cop.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F* (2024), Characters
- *The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Intrigo: Dear Agnes* (2019), Executive Producer
- *A Haunting at Silver Falls: The Return* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Intrigo: Death of an Author* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Rosemont* (2015), Screenplay, Director
- *Blackway* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Dawn Patrol* (2014), Director
- *Combat Hospital* (2011), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Story, Teleplay
- *Pictures of Hollis Woods* (2007), Teleplay
- *Framed* (2002), Director, Teleplay
- *The 6th Day* (2000), Executive Producer
- *Dead Silence* (1997), Director
- *The Big Easy* (1996), series, Executive Producer
- *Toe Tags* (1996), Director
- *In the Army Now* (1994), Screenplay, Director
- *Beverly Hills Cop III* (1994), Characters
- *The Distinguished Gentleman* (1992), as Asbestos Lobbyist
- *Toy Soldiers* (1991), Screenplay, Director
- *Turner & Hooch* (1990), Executive Producer
- *Turner & Hooch* (1989), Screenplay, Executive Producer
- *Shoot to Kill* (1988), Producer, Screenplay
- *Beverly Hills Cop II* (1987), Characters — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/beverly-hills-cop-ii.md)
- *The Big Easy* (1986), Screenplay
- *Beverly Hills Cop* (1984), Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/beverly-hills-cop.md)
- *Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Daniel Petrie Jr.](https://film.one/media/person/118243/gallery-f833cb9fb9d2.jpg) Daniel Petrie Jr. — NwonDeeb, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Daniel_Petrie%2C_Jr._%282014%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![The Austin Film Festival 2014 presents the world premier of the film Dawn Patrol at the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas on 10/25/2014. Producers Rick Dugdale](https://film.one/media/person/118243/gallery-c5d723c8a14a.jpg) The Austin Film Festival 2014 presents the world premier of the film Dawn Patrol at the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas on 10/25/2014. Producers Rick Dugdale — NwonDeeb, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Rick_Dugdale_and_Daniel_Petrie%2C_Jr..jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Daniel Petrie Jr.](https://film.one/media/person/118243/gallery-0408c8f81c19.jpg) Daniel Petrie Jr. — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1985: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Beverly Hills Cop*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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