- Maxwell Shane
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Maxwell Shane Born August 26, 1905
Paterson, New Jersey, United StatesDied October 25, 1983 (aged 78)
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United StatesMaxwell Shane (August 26, 1905 - October 25, 1983) was an American movie and television director, screenwriter, and producer.[1]
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Biography
Before embarking in a career in show business, Shane studied law at USC and UCLA law schools. He later became a journalist and moved on to become a Hollywood publicist and later, a screenwriter. Most of his early work was forgettable low budget films. Becoming a director in 1947, he worked on noirish films, as a writer or director, like Hell's Island, Fear in the Night and the remake Nightmare. Shane scripted City Across the River, the 1949 film of Irving Shulman's The Amboy Dukes. In 1960, he became a writer-producer for the Boris Karloff anthology television series Thriller.
Awards
Year Result Award Category Film or series 1953 Won Locarno International Film Festival Artistic quality The Glass Wall (Tied with Julius Caesar and Kompozitor Glinka References
- ^ "Maxwell Shane". NY Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/110961/Maxwell-Shane. Retrieved 2011-05-01.
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Categories:- 1905 births
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- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- University of Southern California alumni
- American screenwriters
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