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W. R. Burnett
Writer
November 25, 1899 – April 25, 1982
Credits:
Books:
Little Caesar (1929); The
Silver Eagle (1931); Dark Hazard (1933); The Goodhues of Sinking Creek (1934); High
Sierra (1940); Nobody Lives Forever (1943); The Quick Brown Fox (1943); Tomorrow's
Another Day (1945); Romelle (1946); The Asphalt Jungle (1949); Little Men, Big
World (1951); Vanity Row (1952); Underdog (1957); Conant (1961); Round the
Clock At Volari's (1961); The Widow Barony (1962); The Abilene Samson (1963); The
Cool Man (1968); Good-bye, Chicago (1981); Four novel omnibus: Little Caesar / The Asphalt Jungle / High Sierra / Vanity Row (1984).
Movies and television:
4 for Texas (1963); 36
Hours to Kill (1936); 77 Sunset Strip (1959); Accused of Murder (1956); Action
in the North Atlantic (1943); Arrowhead (1953); Background to Danger (1943); Belle
Starr's Daughter (1948); Bonanza (1968); Cairo (1963); Captain Lightfoot (1955);
Colorado Territory (1949); Cool Breeze (1972); Crash Dive (1943); Dance Hall
(1941); Danger (1950); Dangerous Mission (1954); Dark Command (1940); Dark
Hazard (1934); Dr. Socrates (1935); High Sierra (1940); I Died a Thousand Times
(1955); Ice Station Zebra (1968); Illegal (1955); Iron Man (1951); King of the
Underworld (1939); Kraft Theatre (1949); Law and Order (1932/ 1940 / 1953); Little
Caesar (1931); Naked City (1960); Night People (1954); Nobody Lives Forever
(1946); Off to See the Wizard (1967); San Antonio (1945); Scarface (1932); Screen
Directors Playhouse (1955); September Storm (1960); Sergeants 3 (1962); Short
Cut to Hell (1957); Some Blondes Are Dangerous (1937); Stiletto (1969); Studio
57 (1956); Studio One (1952); The Asphalt Jungle (1950); The Asphalt Jungle
(1961); The Badlanders (1958); The Beast of the City (1932); The Finger Points
(1931); The Getaway (1941); The Great Escape (1963); The Hangman (1959); The
Iron Man (1931); The Jackals (1967); The Lawbreakers (1961); The Legend of
Jesse James (1965); The Man I Love (1946); The Racket (1951); The Untouchables
(1960); The Virginian (1967); The Westerner (1940); The Whole Town's Talking
(1935); This Gun for Hire (1942); Vendetta (1950); Wake Island (1942); Wild
West Days (1937); Wine, Women and Horses (1937); Yellow Sky (1948).
