Name Maxwell Shane | Role Movie director | |
Born August 26, 1905 ( 1905-08-26 ) Paterson, New Jersey, United States Died October 25, 1983, Woodland Hills, California, United States Education University of California, Los Angeles Movies The Glass Wall, Fear in the Night, The Naked Street, Nightmare, City Across the River Similar People Frank McDonald, Paul Kelly, Robin Raymond, Cornell Woolrich, Joseph F Biroc | ||
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Maxwell Shane (August 26, 1905 – October 25, 1983) was an American movie and television director, screenwriter, and producer.
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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 for 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, and directed 1955's The Naked Street, starring Anthony Quinn and Anne Bancroft.
In 1960, he became a writer-producer for the Boris Karloff anthology television series Thriller.