James Ellroy Filmography

Born:: March 4, 1948 in Los Angeles, CA
Occupation:: Actor, Executive Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter, Book Author

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White Jazz

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Smokin' Aces director Joe Carnahan takes the helm for this adaptation of James Ellroy's novel concerning a corrupt LAPD lieutenant assigned to a high-profile case just as his notoriously debauched department is singled out for investigation. White Jazz is a screen adaptation of the fourth and Read More

1/1/10
Street Kings

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Cedric the Entertainer

Synopsis: In the wake of the L.A. riots, an LAPD vice detective who always went above and beyond the call of duty to keep the streets safe receives a startling wake-up call that leaves him convinced he can no longer employ the tactics that made him so effective in his work. LAPD veteran Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves Read More

4/11/08
The Black Dahlia

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Mia Kirshner

Synopsis: Director Brian De Palma returns to the helm for the first time since 2002's Femme Fatale with this stylish screen adaptation of James Ellroy's novel detailing one of the most notorious unsolved murders in Hollywood history. Elizabeth Short (Mia Kirshner) was a struggling actress looking to make a Read More

9/15/06
James Ellroy: American Dog

2005
Bazaar Bizarre

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The darkest fantasies of a sadistic madman become a horrifying reality in filmmaker Benjamin Meade's chilling portrait of serial killer Robert A. Berdella. Had it not been for the naked and bloodied would-be seventh victim who mercifully escaped Berdella's tormenting grasp on the day before Easter Read More

2004
Dark Blue

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Kurt Russell, Brendan Gleeson, Scott Speedman, Michael Michele, Ving Rhames

Synopsis: A cop's personal code of justice begins to change after a number of incidents lead his city to a tragic wave of violence in this police drama. Eldon Perry (Kurt Russell) is a veteran cop with the LAPD's Special Investigations unit, a man who isn't above bending the law if it means putting people Read More

2/21/03
Das Bus

2003
James Ellroy's Feast of Death

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: A crime writer best-known for his novel L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy is one of the more eccentric and intense figures on the American literary scene. After numerous articles and E! documentaries, his personal story is well-known. When he was ten years old, his mother was murdered by an unknown Read More

2001
Brown's Requiem

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Michael Rooker, Tobin Bell, Selma Blair, Jack Conley, Kevin Corrigan

Synopsis: Based on a novel by acclaimed crime writer James Ellroy, this film stars Michael Rooker as Fritz Brown, a former L.A.P.D. detective who was kicked off the force due to his drinking. Now struggling to remain sober, Brown works as a private eye when he can, but he makes most of his money Read More

1998
L.A. Confidential

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, David Strathairn, Danny DeVito

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by James Ellroy and directed by Curtis Hanson, this award-winning crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los Angeles police force and Southern California's criminal underbelly in the early '50s, when Hollywood was still seen as America's capital of Read More

1997
Fallen Angels, Vol. 1

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: This film noir style, made-for-TV movie contains three parts, each based on stories by three different authors (Jim Thompson, Cornell Woolrich, and James Elroy). It looks as if a con-artist (Peter Gallagher) has finally met someone who can pull the wool over his eyes in "The Frightening Frammis." Read More

1993
James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction

Synopsis: Novelist James Elroy has become one of the most acclaimed figures in crime fiction with his hard-edged, nihilistic stories of cops walking the fine line of ethics and reason as they chase people who commit unspeakable crimes with bizarre motivations. The success of the film L.A. Confidential Read More

1993
Cop

Crew: Book Author

Actors: James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Durning, Charles Haid, Raymond J. Barry, Randi Brooks

Synopsis: Based on James Ellroy's novel Blood on the Moon, Cop is a grim, brutally violent, darkly humorous modern-day film noir. Lloyd Hopkins (James Woods), is an obsessive, amoral LAPD police detective investigating a murder he believes to have been the work of a serial killer. Hopkins is cynical and Read More

1/8/88