Stephen Downing

Stephen Downing

CountryUnited States United States
GenderMale
BirthdayOct 28, 1938
Death2025-11-20
BiographyStephen Downing (October 28, 1938 – November 20, 2025) was an American screenwriter, producer, activist and investigative journalist who began his screenwriting career in the 1960s while still working as a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer. Most of Downing's pre-1980 writing and producing credits appeared under pseudonyms to escape notice of the LAPD. Downing was active in the movement to end the international war on drugs and the militarization of police in America. In 2011, Downing became a board member of Law Enforcement Action Partnership, formerly known as Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), after years representing the group as a speaker. He left the board in 2019, but was still an advisory board member who gave speeches and wrote op-ed pieces on behalf of the group. He also volunteered his time as an investigative journalist, with a focus on police corruption and reform, for a local print newspaper in Long Beach, California. As a television producer and screenwriter he is best known for the series Walking Tall, RoboCop: The Series, T. J. Hooker and MacGyver.

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MacGyver
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McClain's Law
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McClain's Law

as Executive Story Consultant
Murder, She Wrote
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Murder, She Wrote

as Supervising Producer
RoboCop
Ended

RoboCop

as Executive Producer

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