Raymond Chandler

Writer

Born: July 23, 1888 (70 years old)

Died: March 26, 1959

Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

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".

Filmography (21)

• Double Indemnity (1944, ★ 8.1)
• Murder, My Sweet (1944, ★ 7.2)
• The Long Goodbye (1973, ★ 7.4)
• Strangers on a Train (1951, ★ 7.7)
• The Big Sleep (1946, ★ 7.6)
• The Big Sleep (1978, ★ 5.9)
• Farewell, My Lovely (1975, ★ 6.6)
• Lady in the Lake (1946, ★ 6)
• Marlowe (1969, ★ 6)
• Poodle Springs (1998, ★ 5.4)
• The Brasher Doubloon (1947, ★ 5.9)
• The Falcon Takes Over (1942, ★ 6.2)
• Morning Patrol (1987, ★ 6.7)
• The Blue Dahlia (1946, ★ 6.7)
• The Long Goodbye (2014, ★ 6.8)
• Marlowe (2023, ★ 5.7)
• Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983, ★ 6.6)
• Fallen Angels (1993, ★ 6)
• Double Indemnity (1973, ★ 4.5)
• The Unseen (1945, ★ 4.6)
• Climax! (1954, ★ 3.3)