Evan Hunter Filmography

Born:: October 15, 1926 in New York City, NY
Occupation:: Screen Story, Screenwriter, Book Author
Birth name:: Salvatore A. Lombino
Biography:: Few writers of any era have had the impact on popular literature that Ed McBain, also known as Evan Hunter, did on the mystery genre -- and under both names (and others), he had a huge impact on motion pictures as well. Ironically enough, though readers of the books he published under each name...Read More

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Dream West

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A sprawling adaptation of the same-named novel by David Nevin, the three-part CBS miniseries Dream West starred Richard Chamberlain as colorful, controversial American explorer John Charles Fremont (1813-1890). The story detailed the visionary (and occasionally mercenary) Fremont's lifelong war Read More

1986
The Legend of Walks Far Woman

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Raquel Welch, Bradford Dillman, Nick Mancuso

Synopsis: Raquel Welch stars in this made-for-TV film about a 19th-century Native American woman who avenges her husband's death at the hands of the white man. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
The Chisholms

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The Chisholms was a three-part miniseries adapted by Evan Hunter from his own novel. Covering the years 1842 through 1844, the dramatization follows the westward trek of the Chisholm family. Patriarch Robert Preston is driven from his midwestern homestead by a feud. Starting down the Ohio river, Preston Read More

1979
Walk Proud

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robby Benson, Sarah Holcomb, Henry Darrow, Pepe Serna, Trinidad Silva

Synopsis: In this drama, a Chicano gang member falls in love with a beautiful, wealthy Anglo girl. She tries to get him to leave the gang, but the young man is too deeply involved in being macho to listen. Then his grandmother dies and he travels to Mexico for the funeral. There his mother decides to Read More

1979
Les Liens de Sang

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Stéphane Audran, Micheline Lanctôt, Lisa Langlois, Laurent Malet, Aude Landry, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Making a rare visit to Canada, Claude Chabrol cowrote and directed the low-pressure psychological melodrama Blood Relatives (Les Liens de sang). Donald Sutherland and Donald Pleasence head the cast in this story of the aftermath of a brutal murder. The victim, a 17-year-old girl, was apparently Read More

1977
Every Little Crook and Nanny

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Phillip Graves, Katherine Victory, Lynn Redgrave, Victor Mature, Paul Sand, Maggie Byle, Austin Pendleton

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman's dancing school is overrun by gangster's who begin using it for a betting parlor. As a result, she becomes the nanny for the mob boss's son. Soon she kidnaps him. Trouble and action ensue. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
Fuzz

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt, Yul Brynner, Raquel Welch

Synopsis: Fuzz treads the line between raucous comedy and gut-churning melodrama. Based on an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), the film stars Burt Reynolds and Jack Weston as, respectively, detectives Steve Carella and Meyer Meyer. Their current assignment is to bring in Deaf Man (Yul Brynner Read More

1972
Last Summer

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Cathy Burns, Ralph Waite

Synopsis: Last Summer is a frank coming-of-age tale that refuses to prettify its young characters or their activities. A group of aimless teens get together for sex, drugs and rock-and-roll on Fire Island. Timid, overweight Rhonda (Catherine Burns) is goaded into aberrant behavior by her peers, especially Read More

1969
Ironside: All in a Day's Work

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Policewoman Eve Whitfield (Barbara Anderson) is faced with a profound personal crisis when she shoots and kills an armed robber in self-defense. It turns out that the victim was only 17 years old, regarded as a "model kid" by friends and loved ones alike. Tortured by guilt and self-doubt, Eve must Read More

1968
Mister Buddwing

Crew: Book Author

Actors: James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine Ross, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: James Garner plays a man who awakens in Central Park with no memories at all. This drama chronicles his search for his identity. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1966
The Birds

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies

Synopsis: The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), and schoolteacher Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). The human story begins in a San Francisco pet shop and culminates at the home of Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy Read More

1963
The Young Savages

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters, Edward Andrews, Larry Gates, Vivian Nathan

Synopsis: The Young Savages is what used to be called a "thinking man's picture" about a potentially lurid subject: urban juvenile delinquency. A blind Puerto Rican boy is knifed to death in Spanish Harlem, and three teenage gang members are accused of the crime. Politically ambitious assistant DA Burt Lancaster Read More

1961
Strangers When We Meet

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau

Synopsis: Sexual misconduct in white-collar suburbia is the topic of this routine melodrama involving two neighboring couples. Architect Larry Coe (Kirk Douglas), unhappy with his wife Eve's (Barbara Rush) fixation on their bank balance, starts taking an interest in Maggie Gault (Kim Novak), whose husband Read More

1960
The Pusher

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Kathy Carlyle, Felice Orlandi, Robert Lansing

Synopsis: The Pusher is a well-intentioned but routine drama about the effects of poverty and drugs in the Puerto Rican community in New York and the death of an addict. When two cops, Lt. Peter Byrne (Douglas F. Rodgers) and Steve Carella (Robert Lansing) start investigating the death of a young addict Read More

1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Appointment at Eleven

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Storming into a bar, an angry young man named Davie Logan (Clint Kimbrough) shocks the patrons by announcing that someone is going to die at 11 p.m. Even more startling is Davie's assertion that he himself has been "dead" for five years, but is on the verge of being "reborn." The outcome of the Read More

1959
Cop Hater

Crew: Book Author, Screen Story

Actors: Robert Loggia, Gerald O'Loughlin, Ellen Parker, Shirley Ballard, Russell Hardie

Synopsis: On a boiling hot night in the middle of a steaming New York summer, Detective Mike Reardon is on his way to work when he is shot down execution style. His fellow officers at the 87th, led by detectives Steve Carelli (Robert Loggia) and Mike Maguire (Gerald S. O'Laughlin), can't come up with a Read More

1958
The Mugger

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Kent Smith, Nan Martin, James Franciscus, Stefan Schnabel

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a police psychiatrist sets out to capture a whacko purse snatcher who has been scarring the faces of his female victims as he makes off with their bags. When a girl is killed, all evidence points to the mugger, but when he is captured he fervently denies it. The police then Read More

1958
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Number Twenty-Two

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Petty thief Steve Morgan (Rip Torn) uses a toy gun to hold up a candy store. Later on, the cops make the necessary connections and Steve is arrested. At first, he is thrilled and delighted that so many people are making so much of a fuss over so minor a crime. But Steve is in for quite a shock Read More

1957
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Vicious Circle

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Professional hit man Manny Coe (Dick York) is kept on retainer by crime boss Mr. Williams (George Macready) to eliminate those crooks who have outlasted their usefulness to Williams' operation. When Manny bumps off an inept jewel thief, his girlfriend Betty (Kathleen Maguire) threatens to call the Read More

1957
Blackboard Jungle

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Vic Morrow

Synopsis: In this gritty urban drama, war veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) wants to begin his career as a teacher and is given an assignment at a boys high school in inner-city New York. However, he soon discovers the school is overrun by delinquents, led by Artie West (Vic Morrow), an insolent hood who Read More

1955