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Eric Ellis Overmyer

Eric Ellis Overmyer

Actor, Producer, Writer

Born September 25, 1951 in Boulder, Colorado, USA

Died March 16, 2026

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Eric Overmyer was a highly influential and prolific American screenwriter, playwright, and producer. Renowned as a master storyteller, he received widespread acclaim for his significant contributions to some of television’s most celebrated drama series.

Overmyer earned a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Reed College in Portland in 1973. He began his professional journey in 1981 as a literary manager for the nonprofit Playwrights Horizons in New York. By the mid-1980s, he had transitioned into television, with his first script credit on the medical drama St. Elsewhere (1982). By 1996, after accumulating several episodic writing credits, Overmyer joined the gritty NBC crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), initially as a writer and later as consulting and supervising producer. He took on similar roles for Law & Order (1990), ultimately serving as executive producer through the conclusion of Season 15. Concurrently, Overmyer authored several off-Broadway plays, including the whimsical On the Verge (1985) and the noir thriller Dark Rapture (1993).

In 2006, Overmyer worked as a writer and consulting producer on The Wire (2002), earning the writing team an Edgar Allan Poe Award and a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series. He then teamed up with David Simon as co-creator of HBO’s Treme (2010), set in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in the working-class New Orleans neighborhood of Tremé. To enhance authenticity, Overmyer spent time living in the city, immersing himself in its oral traditions. The Times-Picayune praised Treme as "the screen depiction that New Orleans deserves, has always desired, but has been denied."

At the peak of his career, Overmyer served as executive producer and showrunner for the Prohibition-era crime drama Boardwalk Empire (2010) Season 4 and the dystopian alternate history series The Man in the High Castle (2015) Season 3. Perhaps the crowning achievement of his career was developing and executive producing the acclaimed police procedural Bosch (2014) and its spin-off Bosch: Legacy (2022) for Amazon Prime. Based on Michael Connelly’s novels and starring Titus Welliver as the relentless detective Harry Bosch, the series ran for seven seasons to widespread critical and popular acclaim. Connelly honored Overmyer by saying, "We went on to make 98 episodes of one of the best detective stories ever told on television. It wouldn’t have happened without Eric. Now he’s gone but the stories he told will live on."

Eric Ellis Overmyer passed away on March 16, 2026, at the age of 74.

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Filmography

Actor

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The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards Poster

The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards TV Special2014Self - Nominee

Producer

23

Type

Year

Bosch: Legacy Poster

Bosch: Legacy TV Series2022

9/11's Unsettled Dust TV Movie2021

Saints & Strangers Poster

Saints & Strangers Mini-Series2015

The Man in the High Castle Poster

The Man in the High Castle TV Series2015

Bosch TV Series2014

The Affair Poster

The Affair TV Series2014

Boardwalk Empire Poster

Boardwalk Empire TV Series2010

Treme TV Series2010

New Amsterdam Poster

New Amsterdam TV Series2008

Close to Home Poster

Close to Home TV Series2005

The Wire Poster

The Wire TV Series2002

Law & Order: Criminal Intent Poster

Law & Order: Criminal Intent TV Series2001

Gideon's Crossing Poster

Gideon's Crossing TV Series2000

Homicide: The Movie Poster

Homicide: The Movie TV Movie2000

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Poster

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit TV Series1999

Prince Street Poster

Prince Street TV Series1997

The Cosby Mysteries Poster

The Cosby Mysteries TV Series1994

Homicide: Life on the Street Poster

Homicide: Life on the Street TV Series1993

Sisters TV Series1991

Law & Order Poster

Law & Order TV Series1990

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd Poster

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd TV Series1987

9/11's UNSETTLED DUST TV Movie

New Orleans, Je T'aime Feature Film

Writer

33

Type

Year

Bosch: Legacy Poster

Bosch: Legacy TV Series2022

Sakli TV Series2021

Saints & Strangers Poster

Saints & Strangers Mini-Series2015

The Man in the High Castle Poster

The Man in the High Castle TV Series2015

Bosch TV Series2014

The Affair Poster

The Affair TV Series2014

Boardwalk Empire Poster

Boardwalk Empire TV Series2010

Treme TV Series2010

Law & Order: UK Poster

Law & Order: UK TV Series2009

New Amsterdam Poster

New Amsterdam TV Series2008

Law & Order: Criminal Mind Poster

Law & Order: Criminal Mind TV Series2007

Close to Home Poster

Close to Home TV Series2005

The Wire Poster

The Wire TV Series2002

Law & Order: Criminal Intent Poster

Law & Order: Criminal Intent TV Series2001

Gideon's Crossing Poster

Gideon's Crossing TV Series2000

Homicide: The Movie Poster

Homicide: The Movie TV Movie2000

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Poster

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis TV Movie2000

The Beat Poster

The Beat TV Series2000

Rear Window Poster

Rear Window TV Movie1998

Dellaventura Poster

Dellaventura TV Series1997

Prince Street Poster

Prince Street TV Series1997

The Big Easy Poster

The Big Easy TV Series1996

C.P.W. TV Series1995

New York News Poster

New York News TV Series1995

Strange Luck Poster

Strange Luck TV Series1995

The Last Seat Short Film1995

Birdland Poster

Birdland TV Series1994

Homicide: Life on the Street Poster

Homicide: Life on the Street TV Series1993

Sisters TV Series1991

Law & Order Poster

Law & Order TV Series1990

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd Poster

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd TV Series1987

St. Elsewhere Poster

St. Elsewhere TV Series1982

New Orleans, Je T'aime Feature Film

Other Crew

2

C.P.W. TV Series1995

Birdland Poster

Birdland TV Series1994

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