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Charles Marquis Warren is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 16 december 1912 at Baltimore (USA)

Charles Marquis Warren

Charles Marquis Warren
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Nationality USA
Birth 16 december 1912 at Baltimore (USA)
Death 11 august 1990 (at 77 years) at West Hills (USA)
Awards Bronze Star Medal

Charles Marquis Warren (December 16, 1912 – August 11, 1990) was an American motion picture and television writer, producer, and director who specialized in the western genre. He is notable for his involvement in creating the television series Rawhide and in adapting the radio series Gunsmoke for television.

Biography

Warren was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and was the son of a real estate broker and the godson of American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. He was educated at Baltimore High School and Baltimore City College. During his college years he developed an interest in writing, resulting in a play entitled No Sun, No Moon, which was staged at Princeton University. Warren decided to go to Hollywood in 1933 when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took an option on the play. With the help of his godfather, Warren secured a position as a staff writer for the studio. His early assignments included working on the scripts for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, and Top Hat (1935) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. He made the latter film on loan out to RKO Radio pictures. Warren eventually left Hollywood for New York where he found success as a fiction writer for various pulp magazines. Several of his writings were published in The Saturday Evening Post. Three of his Post stories, Only the Valiant, Bugles Are for Soldiers, and Valley of the Shadow, were published as novels and became best-sellers.

In 1941 he married Anna Crawford Tootle. They had a daughter, Anne.

During World War II Warren joined the United States Navy and served in the Photo Science Laboratory. He rose to the rank of commander and, while serving in the South Pacific in 1944, was wounded by a Japanese grenade. For his wounds and service he received a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star and five battle stars. During his recovery at Guadalcanal his novel, Only the Valiant, was purchased by Warner Bros.

Following his discharge, Warren returned to Hollywood and re-established himself as a screenwriter specializing in westerns. He was the screenwriter for Beyond Glory (1948) starring Alan Ladd, Streets of Laredo (1949) with William Holden and Macdonald Carey, Oh! Susanna (1951) with Rod Cameron, The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951) with Glenn Ford and Rhonda Fleming, and Springfield Rifle (1952) with Gary Cooper. Only the Valiant was adapted by other writers for a 1951 film starring Gregory Peck.

In 1951 Warren began directing films as well as writing them, starting with Little Big Horn, a western starring Lloyd Bridges. He followed this with Hellgate (1952) with James Arness and produced by Commander Films Corporation, a company that Warren founded. In 1953 he moved to Paramount where he wrote the screenplay for Pony Express starring Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill. In the same year he wrote and directed Arrowhead with Heston and Jack Palance, and the 3-D adventure Flight to Tangier with Palance and Joan Fontaine. Warren also directed Seven Angry Men (1955), an Allied Artists production starring Raymond Massey.

In 1955 CBS offered Warren the position of director and producer of Gunsmoke, a new television series based on the popular radio series of the same name and produced by Norman Macdonnell. Initially interested in only making motion pictures, Warren accepted the offer when CBS agreed to pay him $7000 per week. He produced the entire first season of the series and directed the first 26 of its 39 episodes. Warren continued as producer for the second season of Gunsmoke but left the series in mid-season due to a difficult professional relationship with Macdonnell, who worked as the series' associate producer.

After leaving Gunsmoke, Warren returned to working in the cinema as a writer, director, and producer. His films from this era include the horror films Back From the Dead (1957) with Peggie Castle and The Unknown Terror (1958) with John Howard, and the war film Desert Hell (1958) with Brian Keith. His westerns include Trooper Hook (1957) with Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck, Copper Sky (1957) with Jeff Morrow, Ride a Violent Mile (1958) with John Agar, Blood Arrow (1958) with Scott Brady, and Cattle Empire (1958) with Joel McCrea.

Warren also continued working in television. In 1957 he wrote, produced, and directed an episode of the anthology series Playhouse 90 entitled "Without Incident", which starred Errol Flynn. In 1959 he became producer and occasional writer and director for the series Rawhide starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood. He also served briefly as producer or executive producer for two other western series, The Iron Horse with Dale Robertson and The Virginian with James Drury. He returned to films as the writer of Day of the Evil Gun (1968) with Glenn Ford and as the writer and director of Charro! (1969) starring Elvis Presley.

Warren died of a heart aneurysm in 1990 at the age of 77, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

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Filmography of Charles Marquis Warren (22 films)

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Charro!
Charro! (1969)
, 1h38
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French, Barbara Werle, James Sikking, Paul Brinegar
Rating56% 2.8009652.8009652.8009652.8009652.800965
Jess Wade, a former member of a gang of outlaws led by Vince Hackett, is tricked into believing that an old flame of his and Vince's, Tracy Winters, wanted to meet him in a seedy Mexican saloon. Jess later sees Billy Roy Hackett, Vince's younger brother, summoning Vince and the other members of the gang into the saloon. Jess, realizing he was set up, orders the bar patrons to leave as a shoot out later ensues. After making a break for the door Jess is later stopped by another gang member, Gunner, and is trapped. Forcing Jess to relinquish his gun and to go with them to their hideout in the mountains, Vince later tells him that the gang had stolen a gold-plated cannon that was used by Emperor Maximilian in his ill-fated fight against popular Mexican leader Benito Juarez. After explaining to him about them stealing the cannon, Vince tells Jess that he let the word get out that, although a now-deceased member of the gang named Norm was the one who helped steal the cannon that it was Jess who stole it and had sustained a neck wound as a result of being shot by one of the guards, according to a wanted poster out on him. Ordering his men to subdue Jess on the ground, Vince takes a branding iron and burns a wound to his neck. Taking Jess' horse, Vince and the gang later leave Jess and take off. The gang's motive is to force a ransom from the town they stole the cannon from, but the gang also uses the cannon to hold the townspeople at bay. Only Wade can save the people from his former gang.
Cattle Empire, 1h23
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Gloria Talbott, Don Haggerty, Phyllis Coates, Bing Russell, Paul Brinegar
Rating61% 3.0972853.0972853.0972853.0972853.097285
John Cord (Joel McCrea) a brave cowboy/ex-con hits the dusty trail as the leader of a major cattle drive. He is offered the job by the very townspeople his gang terrorized a few years before. They are also the same people who put him in the slammer, and even though he accepts the task, he secretly plots his revenge. He gets it by proving himself courageous and honest.
Desert Hell, 1h22
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Origin USA
Genres War, Adventure
Actors Brian Keith, Barbara Hale, Richard Denning, Philip Pine, Charles H. Gray, Ron Foster
Rating56% 2.8333152.8333152.8333152.8333152.833315
After an ambush by an Arab tribe, two surviving French Legionnaires return to their fort. One of them, Capt. Edwards, is assigned a new patrol and a mission to alert another fort that an attack may be imminent. The other, Sgt. Major Benet, remains behind. Edwards' situation is further complicated when he catches his wife, Celie, in the arms of a lieutenant, Forbes.
Trooper Hook, 1h21
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman, Edward Andrews, John Dehner, Susan Kohner
Rating65% 3.29563.29563.29563.29563.2956
As the action opens, Chief Nanchez (Rudolfo Acosta) signals an order for the execution of a US cavalry troop that has been surrounded on a cliff by his Apache warriors, and the entrapped soldiers are summarily massacred. Arriving on the scene, cavalry reinforcements attack the Apaches, and Sgt. Clovis Hook (Joel McCrea) tackles Chief Nanchez, the two old adversaries falling off their horses and wrestling on the ground in fierce hand-to-hand combat. The army troop defeats the Apaches, and according to orders, take Nanchez alive, along with most of his braves, but a few manage to escape. The soldiers then torch the Apache village, rounding up the women and children for resettlement to the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. Among the native women and children, a soldier spots a white woman and calls out to Sgt. Hook. The woman, dressed native style, except for a short haircut, appears emotionally detached, yet possessively clutches a small half-Indian child of perhaps five years. Although she remains silent and unresponsive, they subsequently learn that she is Cora Sutcliff (Barbara Stanwyck), who was taken captive in a raid some years before on a journey westward to join her rancher husband. Upon determining that the white woman is the mother of Chief Nanchez’s son, the soldiers express disgust that she is “an Indian’s leavings” and that she would let herself give birth to Nanchez’s “whelp.” Sgt. Hook tactfully suggests that they simply report ahead to the fort that a white woman who is the mother of Nanchez’s son has been recovered and will be returning with them.
The Unknown Terror
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors John Howard, Mala Powers, Charles H. Gray, Paul Richards
Rating48% 2.4240852.4240852.4240852.4240852.424085
The mysterious disappearance of Jim Wheatley, while exploring the "cave of the dead" near a Mexican village, brings his sister, Gina, and her husband, Dan Matthews, to the territory to search for him. Embittered, crippled Pete Morgan insists on going along and reminds Dan that his condition is Dan's fault since it happened in an accident in which Pete saved Dan's life. Plus, Gina was Pete's sweetheart before the accident.
Tension at Table Rock, 1h33
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Richard Egan, Dorothy Malone, Cameron Mitchell, Angie Dickinson, Billy Chapin, Royal Dano
Rating63% 3.1942053.1942053.1942053.1942053.194205
After killing a man whom many thought was his friend, Wes Tancred is assaulted and immortalized in an uncomplimentary song about one man shooting his best friend in the back, when in fact Wes' friend was reaching for his gun to shoot Wes in the back as he started out the door. Wes leaves town and winds up working as a hostler at a Stagecoach Outpost. He adopts an alias and befriends the father and son that run the outpost. Three outlaws arrive with plans to rob the Stagecoach when it arrives. The Father is killed in a showdown with the three outlaws. Wes kills them and takes the boy to live with his aunt and uncle, who is the Sheriff in Table Rock. A reckless band of herders that are running a cattle drive come to town with revelry and kill a sodbuster. In court there is testimony presented that the murder was self-defense, because the ramrodder had placed a weapon in the victim's hand. Both the Sheriff and Wes are aware of this, however the Sheriff, who was traumatized from a previous beating, states in his report, that it was self-defense. He revises his report when Wes steps forward with testimony to the contrary, challenging him to overcome his fear. Wes shoots down a hired gun that comes to town to kill the Sheriff and the Sheriff, in turn, shoots the man who hires the gunman when he attempts to shoot Wes in the back.
Seven Angry Men, 1h30
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Historical, Western
Actors Raymond Massey, Dennis Weaver, Debra Paget, James Best, Jeffrey Hunter, Larry Pennell
Rating63% 3.1931053.1931053.1931053.1931053.193105
John Brown (Raymond Massey) a controversial 19th-century abolitionist. After cutting a bloody swath through Kansas, Brown and his followers hole up in a warehouse at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, where he meets his own personal Waterloo at the hands of federal troops.
Arrowhead
Arrowhead (1953)
, 1h45
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, Katy Jurado, Brian Keith, Milburn Stone, Mary Sinclair
Rating58% 2.901922.901922.901922.901922.90192
Une prophétie, qui hante la tribu des Chiricahuas, prédit qu'un homme, venu de l'Est, de race apache, prendra la tête de la révolte contre les colons. À l'heure où Toriano, le fils du chef Chattez, revient de ses études dans le pays des Blancs, il décide de jouer sur cette croyance et devient l'"Invincible". Ed Bannon, un blanc élevé parmi les indiens, et qui les hait, cherche à cerner la personnalité de Toriano. Mais l'armée américaine, décidée à faire la paix avec les Apaches, lui refuse son concours...
Flight to Tangier, 1h30
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Spy films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Joan Fontaine, Jack Palance, Corinne Calvet, Robert Douglas, Marcel Dalio, Jeff Morrow
Rating53% 2.6676852.6676852.6676852.6676852.667685
Aboard a private plane, pilot Hank Brady pulls a gun on his lone passenger, Franz Kovaz, after putting the instruments on automatic pilot. Watching from the Tangier airport is another American pilot, Gil Walker, alongside his French girlfriend Nicki, a woman named Susan Lane and a police lieutenant, Luzon, as the plane goes down in flames.
Hellgate
Hellgate (1952)
, 1h27
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Origin USA
Genres Western
Themes Prison films
Actors Sterling Hayden, Joan Leslie, Ward Bond, Sheb Wooley, James Arness, John M. Pickard
Rating63% 3.196733.196733.196733.196733.19673
Hellgate Prison is an aptly named facility in the desert where the worst criminals are sent. Hanley, a veterinarian and former Civil War soldier, is falsely accused and convicted of a crime. He is sentenced to this hellish place.
Little Big Horn, 1h26
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland, Marie Windsor, Jim Davis, Reed Hadley, Hugh O'Brian
Rating66% 3.3401953.3401953.3401953.3401953.340195
Le capitaine Phillip Donlin (Lloyd Bridges) et son lieutenant John Haywood (John Ireland) doivent atteindre Little Big Horn afin d'avertir le général Custer de l'attaque des Sioux et d’un massacre imminent. Donlin lance sa troupe à travers un voyage ardu et dangereux, harcelé par les indiens. La tension s’accentue lorsque le commandant de la patrouille soupçonne son subordonné d'avoir une liaison avec sa femme...