Evan Hunter (né Salvatore Albert Lombino; known as Ed McBain until 1952) was an American author and screenwriter. He also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, and Richard Marsten, amongst others. He is best known for writing the screenplay for THE BIRDS (1963) dir. Alfred Hitchcock.
Release Date: 2022-09-04
Department: Writing
Job: Original Film Writer
Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of the most influential and studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Release Date: 2021-05-02
Character: Self
Vote Count: 18
When Phil D'Amato takes a call from a lady physicist about her missing husband, he has no idea that her life, his life, and every other scientist working on a top-secret time travel project will soon be in dire jeopardy. As the number of dead begins to mount, D'Amato starts to realize that the suspect is not any one person or group but something much more sinister and dangerous.
Release Date: 2013-11-13
At a crucial point in his business life, executive Gondo learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demanded is near the amount Gondo has raised for a critical business deal. Gondo is prepared to pay the ransom - that is, until he learns that the kidnappers have mistakenly abducted not Gondo's son, but the child of Gondo's chauffeur. Now Gondo must decide whether the other man's child is equally worth saving.
Release Date: 2007-09-08
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 2
A lawyer defends a man he's known since serving together in Vietnam, who has been accused of murdering three Vietnamese immigrants. Now he'll have to fight against a tenacious District Attorney, and evidence connected to the man's wife.
Release Date: 2001-09-30
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 5
This hour long documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" incorporates the usual melange of contemporary interviews with surviving participants and liberal helpings of film clips and production shots. It also presents a nice selection of script pages and memos as well. In the former category we find cast members 'Tippi' Hedren, Diane Baker, and Louise Latham, rejected screenwriters Joseph Stefano and Evan Hunter, final screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, production designer Robert Boyle, makeup artist Howard Smit, unit manager Hilton Green, Hitchcock historian Robin Wood, composer Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven C. Smith, and Hitchcock fan/filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. An entertaining account of the film's production, the participants offer loads of valuable information and anecdotes. Highly enjoyable for Hitchcock fans and the film's growing number of admirers.
Release Date: 2000-05-30
Character: Self
Vote Count: 5
Once she'd been a dancer. Now she lies on a sidewalk, her blood seeping into the snow. The detectives of the 87th precinct are learning about ice: in a mulitimillion dollar showbiz scam, in the glittering diamonds that spill out of a dead man's vest, in the veins of a small time pusher. As the detectives scramble for evidence, as the city shivers, a killer is one step ahead, and the heat is still on.
Release Date: 1996-02-18
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 2
In New York two detectives of the 87th precinct are initially baffled by the brutal, ritualistic slayings of several young women. Through good detective work and clues left at the crime scenes by the psychopathic killer, they are able to deduce who the killer's next victim will be. A tense chase ensues as they try to prevent him from continuing his bloody rampage
Release Date: 1995-03-19
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 7
A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The episodes, although filmed in color, mimicked what had been done by Hollywood filmmakers during the film noir era of the 1940s and 1950s in terms of tone, look, and story content.
Release Date: 1993-08-01
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 10
Based on Ed McBain's "87th Precinct" series. The drama series is set in Tsukishima, a popular town near downtown Tokyo, and is composed of content that incorporates the storyline of the original work while also incorporating current events and social issues in Japan.
Release Date: 1992-10-13
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Episode Count: 10
Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.
Release Date: 1982-05-04
Character: Self (Ed McBain)
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 6
A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.
Release Date: 1981-10-10
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 1
Release Date: 1981-03-14
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 1
Walks Far Woman is a an Indigenous woman of the Blackfoot tribe. She takes revenge on two men who killed her husband and then she is ostracized by her tribe. She then is adopted by the Sioux, the tribe of her mother, and there she tries to start a new life.
Release Date: 1980-08-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 11
A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.
Release Date: 1979-06-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 4
The Chisholms is a CBS western miniseries starring Robert Preston, which aired from March 29, 1979, to April 19, 1979; and continued as a television series from January 19, 1980, to March 15, 1980. The 1979 miniseries showed the family moving from Virginia to Wyoming. When the TV series commenced in 1980, the pioneers were shown en route along the California Trail from Wyoming to Sacramento, California.
Release Date: 1979-03-29
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 4
A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.
Release Date: 1978-02-01
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 25
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
Release Date: 1972-07-14
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 39
An Englishwoman turns nanny and kidnaps the son of an Italian gangster who took over her dancing school.
Release Date: 1972-06-14
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Teleplay based on the story of the same name by Evan Hunter. The traveling salesman Jerr Talbot joins the publishing house "The Bible For Home". Publisher Matthews comes up with dishonest tricks to sell the Bible for maximum profit.
Release Date: 1972-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
Release Date: 1971-09-15
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 50
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
Release Date: 1971-09-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 711
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
Release Date: 1969-06-10
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 39
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
Release Date: 1967-03-28
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 63
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
Release Date: 1966-07-15
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 13
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
Release Date: 1963-10-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 6
The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine...
Release Date: 1963-06-12
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
Release Date: 1963-03-28
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 4138
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.
Release Date: 1963-03-01
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 943
87th Precinct is an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper, which aired on NBC on Monday evenings during the 1961–1962 television season.
Release Date: 1961-09-25
Department: Crew
Job: Creator
Episode Count: 30
Vote Count: 4
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
Release Date: 1961-05-24
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 32
A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.
Release Date: 1960-06-29
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 39
A detective investigating the murder of a heroin addict discovers that there is a connection between the junkie and his fiance, who is his boss' daughter.
Release Date: 1960-02-01
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 6
A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.
Release Date: 1958-11-01
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 9
Members of the 87th Precinct search for a cop killer who has already murdered two of their own.
Release Date: 1958-10-01
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 16
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
Release Date: 1955-03-25
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 150
English-language reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 crime thriller 'High and Low.'
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
A remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror film about a flock of birds that take over a quiet Northern California town.
Department: Writing
Job: Original Film Writer
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Release Date: 1955-10-02
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Self - Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 224