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Born in Abilene, Texas and raised in Berkeley, California, Hoblit completed his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA before studying film and television on the graduate level at UCLA. He began his professional career in Chicago, where he associate produced and produced several talk shows for the local ABC affiliate. Upon returning to Los Angeles, Hoblit cut his teeth as an associate producer on a half-hour sitcom and two low budget films, and as the producer/director of a feature documentary.
After working as an associate producer on the six-hour miniseries Loose Change and on Universal Television's two-hour pilot Dr. Strange, Hoblit joined Steven Bochco at MTM Enterprises, where they produced the movie-of-the-week Vampire, as well as the series Paris, Hill Street Blues and Bay City Blues. He then joined Bochco at Twentieth Century Fox, beginning their collaboration on L.A. Law, Hooperman, Cop Rock, Civil Wars and NYPD Blue. In 1992 Hoblit directed Class of ‘61 for Amblin Entertainment and executive producer Steven Spielberg.
The seeds of Hoblit's feature success were sown in television, where he helped to develop and craft some of the most innovative shows of modern television. His vast and influential body of work as an executive producer/director includes Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and N.Y.P.D. Blue, as well as the acclaimed NBC movie Roe V. Wade and the 1990 AIDS documentary The Los Altos Story. Along the way, Hoblit received virtually every honor available, including nine Emmy and three Peabody Awards, as well as the DGA, CableACE, Humanitas, Golden Globe and People’s Choice Awards.
In 1996 Hoblit made his feature debut with Paramount's Primal Fear, and Fallen, followed two years later. He has also directed New Line Cinema's Frequency and the 2002 film, Hart’s War.
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