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Ed McBain is a Scriptwriter American born on 15 october 1926 at New York City (USA)

Ed McBain

Ed McBain
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Birth name Salvatore Lombino
Nationality USA
Birth 15 october 1926 at New York City (USA)
Death 6 july 2005 (at 78 years) at Weston (USA)

Ed McBain (October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956.

Biography

Salvatore Lombino, né dans une famille d'origine italienne de Ruvo del Monte dans la Basilicate, est élevé dans Harlem Est jusqu'à l'âge de 12 ans avant que sa famille déménage dans le Bronx. Lombino sert dans la Marine durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, écrivant plusieurs histoires courtes tout en participant aux combats à bord d'un destroyer dans le Pacifique. Démobilisé, il devient professeur, une expérience qui est la source d'inspiration du roman Graine de violence (Blackboard Jungle, 1954) qu'il publie avec succès sous le pseudonyme Evan Hunter, et qui est adapté au cinéma en 1955 par Richard Brooks sous le même titre.

Curieusement, cet écrivain qui fera surtout carrière dans le genre policier entre en littérature avec Find the Feathered Serpent (1952), un roman de science-fiction destiné aux enfants. Ensuite, « sous les pseudonymes de Richard Marsten [...] et d'Evan Hunter, il multiplie les romans ».

La notoriété de Salvatore Lombino s'affirme cependant en 1956, lorsque l'éditeur « Permabooks lui demande une série policière ». C'est l'entrée en scène des inspecteurs du commissariat du 87e District de la grande ville imaginaire d'Isola, inspirée par New York, auquel il consacre, sous le pseudonyme d'Ed McBain, cinquante-trois romans et trois nouvelles : Du balai ! (Cop Hater, 1956), Le Sonneur (The Mugger, 1956), Le Fourgue (The Pusher, 1956) posent les prémices de cette série si particulière, qui évolue au fil des années. Comme le précise l'auteur : « La ville décrite ici est imaginaire. Les personnages et les endroits sont fictifs. Seule la méthode policière se fonde sur des techniques d'investigation bien établies ». Dans cet univers éminemment machiste, mettant en scène aux côtés de Steve Carella, les inspecteurs Meyer Meyer, Kling, Hawes, Brown et Willis sous la férule indulgente et compréhensive du lieutenant Byrnes, les femmes s'insinuent peu à peu jusqu'à devenir des personnages incontournables (Eileen Burke, Annie Rawles, Sharyn Cooke), car Ed McBain s'attache toujours à coller à la réalité sociale contemporaine et à l'évolution des mœurs. Outre leurs qualités novatrices - recours à la police scientifique, à la médecine légale, aux précédures d'une enquête réelle -, les romans de McBain se caractérisent par un travail remarquable sur le temps romanesque frisant la perfection dans Cash Cash (Money Money Money, 2001), l'approche des policiers dans leur globalité (McBain est l'un des premiers, sinon le premier, à les faire évoluer dans leur milieu familial) et l'imbrication des intrigues (Lightning, 1984). Ed McBain poursuit ainsi sa chronique du 87e, où « son écriture concise et ironique, ses dialogues étincelants, son talent pour dépeindre les violences évolutives de la ville et ses personnages loin des stéréotypes, font de lui le maître de la procédure policière ».

Le cinquante-cinquième et dernier roman consacré par Ed McBain au 87e District est Jouez violons ! (Fiddlers!, 2005).

Un autre personnage récurrent, sujet de treize romans, est l'avocat Matthew Hope, résident de Calusa, une petite ville de Floride, qui apparaît pour la première fois dans J'ai tout gâché (Goldilocks, 1978). « Défenseur de causes qui paraissent perdues d'avance, cet homme de loi mène ses affaires un peu à la manière d'un policier ». Hope croise Steve Carella dans Le Paradis des ratés (The Last Best Hope, 2000), le dernier titre de la série.

Grand maître du roman noir, il publie en carrière de nombreux titres à succès, plusieurs fois adaptés au cinéma de manière notable. Il fut également un scénariste remarqué, notamment celui des Oiseaux (The Birds, 1963) d'Alfred Hitchcock, et a participé à l'écriture de plusieurs séries TV, dont L'Homme de fer (Ironside) et Columbo.

Best films

The Birds (1963)
(Scriptwriter)
Without Apparent Motive (1971)
(Novel)

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Filmography of Ed McBain (19 films)

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Scriptwriter

Lizzie
Lizzie (2018)

Directed by Craig William Macneill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Fiona Shaw, Jamey Sheridan, Kim Dickens, Denis O'Hare
Roles Novel
Rating59% 2.954042.954042.954042.954042.95404
En 1892, Lizzie Borden est accusée, puis acquittée, du double meurtre de son père et de sa belle-mère.
Blood Relatives, 1h40
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Donald Sutherland, Donald Pleasence, Laurent Malet, Lisa Langlois, Aude Landry, Stéphane Audran
Roles Novel
Rating61% 3.095393.095393.095393.095393.09539
Blood Relatives involves the brutal murder of a teenage girl and the subsequent investigation led by Donald Sutherland, reprising his low-key cop role from Klute. Claude Chabrol and his regular cinematographer Jean Rabier manage to create an unsettling mood, effectively using the streets of Old Montreal to create an atmosphere of doom and gloom.
Fuzz
Fuzz (1972)
, 1h32
Directed by Richard Colla
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt, Yul Brynner, Raquel Welch, Dominic Chianese
Roles Novel
Rating54% 2.703272.703272.703272.703272.70327
Detectives Steve Carella (Reynolds), Meyer Meyer (Weston), Eileen McHenry (Welch) and Bert Kling (Skeritt) are part of the 87th Precinct's team, investigating a murder-extortion racket run by a mysterious deaf man (Brynner). While attempting to investigate and prevent the murders of several high-ranking city officials, they also must keep track of the perpetrators of a string of robberies. Further complicating matters is a rash of arson attacks on homeless men.
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques, 1h28
Directed by Michel Audiard
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Michel Serrault, Bernard Blier, Paul Meurisse, Marion Game, Jean Carmet, Yves Robert
Rating56% 2.817992.817992.817992.817992.81799
Alfred, un minable chômeur à la recherche d'un emploi, qui survit grâce à son épouse et obsédé par le jeu, est capturé par un gang de truands redoutables, mené par Monsieur K., qui veulent absolument l'enfermer dans un cercueil pour un voyage à destination d'Istanbul avec un veston qu'il doit porter.
Without Apparent Motive, 1h38
Directed by Philippe Labro
Origin France
Genres Crime
Themes La provence, Serial killer films
Actors Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Laura Antonelli, Paul Crauchet, Carla Gravina, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Roles Novel
Rating63% 3.1863253.1863253.1863253.1863253.186325
Nice, 1971. Le Commissaire Carella enquête sur deux meurtres semblables commis la même journée. Deux autres surviennent le lendemain. Une course contre la montre s'engage pour trouver le lien entre ces quatre meurtres sans mobile apparent…
Last Summer, 1h35
Directed by Frank Perry
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Catherine Burns, Barbara Hershey, Bruce Davison, Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Conrad Bain
Roles Novel
Rating68% 3.4431953.4431953.4431953.4431953.443195
While spending the summer on Fire Island, Peter (Richard Thomas) and Dan (Bruce Davison), two adolescent boys from upper-middle-class families, meet Sandy (Barbara Hershey), a young girl who has found a wounded seagull on the beach. After the boys remove a fishhook from the bird's throat, the three youngsters become fast friends and spend all their time together, swimming, boating, smoking marijuana and cautiously experimenting with their awakening sexual impulses during visits to a movie house on the mainland.
Mister Buddwing, 1h40
Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Angela Lansbury, Katharine Ross, Jack Gilford
Roles Novel
Rating60% 3.0001453.0001453.0001453.0001453.000145
Waking up on a New York park bench, a man's mind is a total blank. He has no identification on him, just a slip of paper in his pocket with a phone number on it.
Marnie
Marnie (1964)
, 2h10
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, William Witney, Hilton A. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham, Mariette Hartley
Rating71% 3.550773.550773.550773.550773.55077
Margaret "Marnie" Edgar (Tippi Hedren) steals $10,000 from her employer's company safe and flees. She had used her charms on Sidney Strutt (Martin Gabel), a tax consultant, to get a clerical job without references. After changing her appearance and identity, she makes a quick trip to a horse stable in Virginia, where she keeps a horse named Forio, and then to Baltimore for a surprise visit to her mother, Bernice (Louise Latham). Though Bernice seems to care more for a young neighbor named Jessie than she ever did her own daughter, Marnie shows her love for her and gives her money.
High and Low, 2h23
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Isao Kimura
Roles Novel
Rating83% 4.198814.198814.198814.198814.19881
A wealthy executive named Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) is in a struggle to gain control of a company called National Shoes. One faction wants the company to make cheap, low quality shoes for the impulse market as opposed to the sturdy but unfashionable shoes currently being produced. Gondo believes that the long-term future of the company will be best served by well made shoes with modern styling, though this plan is unpopular because it means lower profits in the short term. He has secretly set up a leveraged buyout to gain control of the company, mortgaging all he has.
The Birds
The Birds (1963)
, 2h
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Films about birds
Actors Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright, Charles McGraw
Rating75% 3.7992153.7992153.7992153.7992153.799215
Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), a young socialite, meets lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a San Francisco bird shop. He wants to purchase a pair of lovebirds for his sister's eleventh birthday, but the shop has none. He recognizes her from a previous encounter, but she does not remember him, so he plays a prank by pretending to mistake her for a salesperson. She is infuriated when she realizes this, even though she also likes to play practical jokes. Intrigued, she finds his address in Bodega Bay, purchases a pair of lovebirds, and takes the long drive to deliver them. She secretly deposits the birdcage inside his mother's house, with a note. He spots her on the water through a pair of binoculars during her retreat, and manages to talk to her after she is attacked and injured by a seagull. He invites her to dinner, and she hesitantly agrees.
Chicken Soup, 1h28
Directed by Philippe Agostini
Origin France
Genres Crime
Actors Gérard Blain, Claude Brasseur, Françoise Spira, Guy Bedos, Jean Servais, Paul Mercey
Roles Novel

La fiancée d'un gangster ayant été abattu par la police prend en otage tout un commissariat, armée d'un revolver et d'une bouteille de nitroglycérine...
The Young Savages, 1h43
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas, Vivian Nathan
Roles Novel
Rating68% 3.4459153.4459153.4459153.4459153.445915
Danny Di Pace (Stanley Kristien), Arthur Reardon (John Davis Chandler) and Anthony "Batman" Aposto (Neil Nephew) are members of a street gang named the Thunderbirds in New York City in East Harlem. They have an ongoing turf war with a Puerto Rican gang called the Horsemen. The three Thunderbirds unleash a knife attack on Roberto Escalante (José Pérez), a blind member of the Horsemen and stab him to death. They are caught and arrested, and during questioning by the police, assistant district attorney Hank Bell (Burt Lancaster) discovers one of the boys is the son of Mary diPace (Shelley Winters), an ex-girlfriend.
Strangers When We Meet, 1h57
Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Barbara Rush, Ernie Kovacs, Walter Matthau, Virginia Bruce
Roles Novel
Rating70% 3.5428453.5428453.5428453.5428453.542845
Larry Coe is a Los Angeles architect who is married with two kids. He has a very bright wife, Eve. She is ambitious for him, but he wants to do work more imaginative than the commercial buildings he's been designing. He meets with Roger Altar, an author, to discuss building a house that will be an "experiment" and something Coe wants to do more of, something original.