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Evan Hunter
Highest Rated: 96% High and Low (1963)
Lowest Rated: 50% The Young Savages (1961)
Birthday: Oct 15, 1926
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Ed McBain is the most famous pen name of author Evan Hunter, and it is the name under which Hunter did his best-known work, the 87th Precinct series of police procedurals. As Hunter, however, he wrote the novel The Blackboard Jungle (1954), on which the film starring Sidney Poitier and Glenn Ford is based, and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963). As the 87th Precinct series grew in popularity, however, McBain's fame eventually eclipsed Hunter's, and today it is largely McBain who is remembered as the father of the police procedural.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 14% | 87th Precinct: Heatwave | Screenwriter | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | Walk Proud | Writer | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Every Little Crook and Nanny | Writer | - | 1972 |
| 96% | 95% | High and Low | Writer | - | 1963 |
| 94% | 83% | The Birds | Screenwriter | - | 1963 |
| 50% | 52% | The Young Savages | Writer | - | 1961 |
| 74% | 78% | Blackboard Jungle | Writer | - | 1955 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fallen Angels | Screenwriter | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ironside | Writer | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Writer | 1957 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Writer | 1958 |