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Michael A. Hoey is the son of actor Dennis Hoey, best remembered for his portrayal of Scotland Yard Inspector Lestrade in the Sherlock Holmes films staring Basil Rathbone.

Although born in England, Hoey grew up in Beverly Hills and began his career in Hollywood in the editing department, working for such industry icons as John Ford, George Cukor, and Fred Zinneman. Later, after Jack Warner promoted him, he produced the teen comedy, Palm Springs Weekend, staring Troy Donahue, Robert Conrad, Stefanie Powers, and Connie Stevens. He then wrote and directed a science fiction film, the screenplays for two Elvis Presley films –– Stay Away, Joe, and Live a Little, Love a Little, and was a contributing writer on four more Presley films, as well as serving as Associate Producer on two of them. He has been twice nominated for an Emmy Award and has received the Writers Guild’s Morgan Cox Award, a Media Award for writing, and an A.C.E. Eddie Award for editing.

He has written episodes for The Rat Patrol, Get Christie Love, McCloud, Bridges to Cross, The Fitzpatricks, and The Lazarus Syndrome, which he also produced. He has directed numerous episodes of Dallas, Falcon Crest, Downtown, Blacke’s Magic, and Murder, She Wrote, and for five seasons was a writer/director on the popular series Fame.

Hoey has served as a Governor on the Board of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, as well as on the Academy’s Executive Committee. For nine years he was the Executive Producer of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Creative Arts Emmy Awards on E! Entertainment Network.

His book, Elvis, Sherlock, and Me: How I Survived Growing Up In Hollywood was published in 2007 by BearManor Media and his new book, FAME: An Insider’s Look at the Making of the Hit Television Series will be published by McFarland in early 2010.