Raymond Chandler
- Writing
- July 23, 1888 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
- March 26, 1959
Biography
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".
Known for
Filmography
- Marlowe · Characters
- The Long Goodbye · Novel
- The Coronation · Characters
- Poodle Springs · Novel
- Once You Meet a Stranger · Teleplay
- Red Wind · Short Story
- Fallen Angels · Story
- Morning Patrol · Novel
- Philip Marlowe, Private Eye · Writer
- The Big Sleep · Novel
- The South Bank Show
- Farewell, My Lovely · Novel
- Double Indemnity · Screenplay
- The Long Goodbye · Novel
- Marlowe · Novel
- Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go: A Portrait of Raymond Chandler · Self
- Climax! · Writer
- Strangers on a Train · Screenplay
- The Brasher Doubloon · Novel
- Lady in the Lake · Novel, Screenplay
- The Big Sleep · Novel
- The Blue Dahlia · Screenplay
- The Unseen · Screenplay
- Murder, My Sweet · Novel
- And Now Tomorrow · Screenplay
- Double Indemnity · Man Reading Book (uncredited), Screenplay
- Time to Kill · Novel
- The Falcon Takes Over · Novel