Writer
Raymond Chandler
138 years · Chicago, Illinois, USA · 7 films
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature. He is a founder of the hardboiled school of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers. The protagonist of his novels, Philip Marlowe, like Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective".
Best known for
Filmography 7
Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go: A Portrait of Raymond Chandler
1969 · Self (archive footage)
Strangers on a Train
1951 · Screenplay
On Plex
Lady in the Lake
1946 · Screenplay
The Blue Dahlia
1946 · Screenplay
The Unseen
1945 · Screenplay
And Now Tomorrow
1944 · Screenplay
Double Indemnity
1944 · Man Reading Book (uncredited), Screenplay