Alfred Henry Bromell (September 19, 1947 – March 18, 2013) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and director.
Career
Bromell joined the crew of NBC police drama Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994. He served as a writer and co-executive producer for the show's third season. He contributed to writing seven episodes for the season. He was promoted to executive producer for the fourth season and wrote a further 17 episodes. He scaled back his involvement with the fifth season and became a consulting producer. He wrote a further two episodes before leaving the crew at the end of the season in 1997. He contributed to a total of 26 episodes as a writer over three seasons with the series. He returned as a co-writer and co-executive producer for the feature-length follow-up Homicide: The Movie in 2000.
Bromell wrote and directed the feature film Panic (2000), which was nominated for the top prize at the Deauville Film Festival, and tele-movie Last Call (aka Fitzgerald), with Jeremy Irons playing writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Bromell attended Eaglebrook School (1963) and the United World College of the Atlantic (1964–1966).[4] He graduated from Amherst College in 1970. He won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Award for his first novel, The Slightest Distance.[5][6] His collection of short stories, I Know Your Heart, Marco Polo, was published by Knopf.[7] Bromell's work has appeared in two O. Henry Award collections.
Bromell's first wife was the screenwriter and director Caroline Thompson. He then married writer Trish Soodik, who died of cancer in January 2009; they had a son, William. His third wife was Sarah.
Bromell died March 18, 2013, of a heart attack, at UCLA Santa Monica hospital at age 65.[8][9]
