For the scientist and businessman see Harold Eugene Edgerton

Harold Eugene Edgerton

Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Harry Edgerton is a former detective of the Baltimore Police Department

Baltimore Police Department

The Baltimore Police Department provides police services to the city of Baltimore, Maryland and was officially established by the Maryland Legislature on March 16, 1853...

. He is notable for his work in the Homicide Unit and on the investigation of drug dealer
Melvin Williams with former BPD Detective Ed Burns

Ed Burns

Ed Burns is a producer, screenwriter, and novelist. He has worked closely with writing partner David Simon. They have collaborated on The Corner and The Wire . Burns is a former Baltimore police detective for the Homicide and Narcotics divisions, and a public school teacher...

 and the Drug Enforcement Administration

Drug Enforcement Administration

The Drug Enforcement Administration is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug smuggling and use within the United States...

. He is notable for working under Sergeant Roger Nolan

Roger Nolan (Baltimore Police officer)

Roger Nolan is a former sergeant of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit. He is notable for appearing alongside Terry McLarney and Jay Landsman as a Homicide Sergeant under the command of Lieutenant Gary D'Addario whose Homicide unit was featured in David Simon's Homicide: A Year on the...

 and Lieutenant Gary D'Addario

Gary D'Addario

Gary D'Addario is a retired police commander, television technical advisor and actor from Baltimore, Maryland.D'Addario joined the Baltimore police department in 1967...

 whose Homicide unit was featured in David Simon

David Simon

David Simon is an American author, journalist, and a writer/producer of television series. He worked for the Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years. He wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and co-wrote The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood with Ed Burns...

's Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets is a 1991 book written by Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon describing a year spent with detectives from the Baltimore Police Department homicide squad...

book. The son of a New York jazz pianist, Edgerton would provide the inspiration for Homicide: Life on the Street

Homicide: Life on the Street

Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Homicide Unit. It ran for seven seasons on NBC from 1993 to 1999, and was succeeded by a TV movie, which also acted as the de-facto series finale...

character Frank Pembleton

Frank Pembleton

Francis Xavier "Frank" Pembleton is a fictional homicide detective on the television drama series Homicide: Life on the Street portrayed by Emmy Award winning actor Andre Braugher. He is a primary character of the show through the first six seasons...

played by Emmy Award winner Andre Braugher

Andre Braugher

Andre Braugher is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Thomas Searles in the film Glory, as the fiery detective Frank Pembleton on Homicide: Life on the Street from 1993 to 1998 and again in the 2000 made-for-TV film Homicide: Life on the Street, and as Owen Thoreau Jr...

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