Daniel Mainwaring

Escritor

22 de julio de 1902 — 31 de enero de 1977 (74 años)
Daniel Mainwaring (aka Geoffrey Homes) (July 22, 1902 – January 31, 1977) was an American novelist and screenwriter. A native of Oakland, California, he began his professional career as a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle and enjoyed a successful career as a mystery novelist (under the name Geoffrey Homes). He worked as a film publicist and eventually abandoned fiction for a successful career as a screenwriter.

His first novel (and the only one he ever published under his own name), One Against the Earth, was a proletarian novel about a young man born on a California ranch who becomes a drifter and is eventually unjustly accused of attacking a child, was published in 1932. He made his real mark, however, with a string of hard-boiled mystery novels (mostly with small-town California settings), the first of which was The Man Who Murdered Himself (1936).

His final published novel, Build My Gallows High (William Morrow & Co., 1946), is generally regarded as his best—and its adaptation (by "Homes" himself) into the film noir classic Out of the Past assured his place in film history. Mainwaring explained to interviewer Pat McGilligan that he regarded the novel as a departure from his earlier literary efforts:

With Build My Gallows High, I wanted to get away from straight mystery novels. Those detective stories are a bore to write. You've got to figure out "whodunit". I'd get to the end and have to say whodunit and be so mixed up I couldn't decide myself.

(Wikipedia)

Películas y series en Plex

  • El autoestopista
    El autoestopista1953
  • El regreso del gángster
    El regreso del gángster1955
  • El último destacamento
    El último destacamento1951
  • Dangerous Passage
    Dangerous Passage1944
  • Big Town After Dark
    Big Town After Dark1947
  • Fuego pantanoso
    Fuego pantanoso1946
  • The Californians
    The Californians2 seasons

Conocido por

  • La invasión de los ladrones de cuerpos
    La invasión de los ladrones de cuerpos1956
  • Retorno al pasado
    Retorno al pasado1947
  • Contra todo riesgo
    Contra todo riesgo1984
  • El gran robo
    El gran robo1949
  • El autoestopista
    El autoestopista1953
  • La Atlántida, el continente perdido
    La Atlántida, el continente perdido1961
  • El imperio del terror
    El imperio del terror1955
  • Balas de contrabando
    Balas de contrabando1958
  • El forajido
    El forajido1950
  • El gran objetivo
    El gran objetivo1951
  • El regreso del gángster
    El regreso del gángster1955
  • Dangerous Passage
    Dangerous Passage1944
  • La emboscada
    La emboscada1951
  • Sin contemplaciones
    Sin contemplaciones1949
  • Una mujer peligrosa
    Una mujer peligrosa1952
  • They Made Me a Killer
    They Made Me a Killer1946
  • La rebelión de los esclavos
    La rebelión de los esclavos1960
  • X-7 rey del espacio
    X-7 rey del espacio1958
  • Fuego pantanoso
    Fuego pantanoso1946
  • No Hands on the Clock
    No Hands on the Clock1941

Filmography

1984
1965
1965
1965
1965
1961
1961
1961
1960
1958
The Gun Runners · as Screenplay
1958
Space Master X-7 · as Screenplay
1958
Cole Younger, Gunfighter · as Screenplay
1957
1956
Thunderstorm · as Screenplay
1956
1955
The Phenix City Story · as Screenplay
1955
A Bullet for Joey · as ScreenplayEn Plex
1955
An Annapolis Story · as Screenplay
1954
The Desperado · as Screenplay
1954
Black Horse Canyon · as Screenplay
1954
Southwest Passage · as Screenplay
1954
1953
1953
1952
Bugles in the Afternoon · as Screenplay
1952
This Woman Is Dangerous · as Screenplay
1951
The Last Outpost · as ScreenplayEn Plex
1950
1950
The Eagle and the Hawk · as Screenplay
1949
The Big Steal · as Screenplay
1949
Roughshod · as Screenplay
1947
Out of the Past · as Screenplay
1946
Swamp Fire · as ScreenplayEn Plex
1946
They Made Me a Killer · as Screenplay
1946
Tokyo Rose · as Screenplay
1945
Scared Stiff · as Screenplay
1944
1944
Crime by Night · as Novel
1941