Chuck MacLean
Writing
Biography
Chuck MacLean is a Boston local who grew up in the suburb of Quincy, went to Emerson College in Massachusetts (before transferring to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles for film school) and did stints as a journalist for the Patriot Ledger and the Boston Herald.He describes experiences from his rough-housing youth with the police and such as contributing to his inspiration for the TV series City on a Hill (2019).
Known For
In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system.
City on a Hill
Rory and Cobby are unlikely partners thrown together for a heist. But when it goes awry, they team up with an unusual accomplice — Rory's therapist — to outrun police, backward bureaucrats, and a vengeful crime boss.
The Instigators
Life for a crew of organized criminals is disrupted when Vincent Damiano's father, the family's boss, is murdered. Vincent's "bastard" brothers, a group of orphaned souls he raised together, have an idea of who killed their father...his partner Rome. In a valiant and calculated attempt to regain the business and enact vengeance on Rome, the Bastards wage an all-out war to get their pound of flesh.
The Bastard Sons
Commando vet of the Soviet army, Jose Vigoa, takes down several Vegas hotels and makes off with millions of dollars.
Storming Las Vegas
A heartfelt comedy about a Boston political fixer who discovers he only has six months left to live.