Mickey Spillane

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1918-03-09

Deathday 2006-07-17 (88 years old)

Place of Birth Brooklyn, New York, USA

Also Known As Микки Спиллейн, Frank Morrison Spillane, Фрэнк Моррисон Спиллейн

Mickey Spillane

Biography

Mickey Spillane is an American author of hardcore detective stories. Wrote more than 20 novels with a circulation of more than 140 million copies. He began his writing career as a writer for comics. Spillane published his first novel, Judgment Is Me, in 1946. The hero of this and twelve other books is private detective Mike Hammer, one of the most popular characters in popular culture. Spillane's novels have been adapted many times in film and television. Spillane himself played the role of a detective in the movie (Ring of Fear / Ring of Fear, 1954). Films based on his novels became classics, including Kiss Me Deadly (1955) and The Girl Hunters (1963), with his own participation. In The Girl Hunters, Spillane played his character Mike Hammer. This is one of the rarest cases in history when the author plays the role of the hero he created. He also appeared as a writer in the television series about Colombo (episode "Publish or Perish"). Spillane's huge success is usually credited to the successful mixture of his gruff language, the rigidity of the characters, and the abundance of erotic scenes. His books, as fellow detective writer Raymond Chandler has said, can be described as "a mixture of violence and outright pornography." However, they have become a classic of the genre.

Known For

Writer

1993
Fallen Angels

as Story

1984
More Than Murder

as Characters

1984
Mike Hammer

as Characters

1983
Murder Me, Murder You

as Characters

1982
I, the Jury

as Novel

1981
Margin for Murder

as Characters

1970
1963
The Girl Hunters

as Screenplay

1963
1957
1955
1954
The Long Wait

as Novel

1953
I, the Jury

as Novel

Actor

1997
Mommy's Day

as Attorney Neal Ekhardt

1995
Mommy

as Attorney Eckhart

1992
Hammar

as Himself

1974
Dinah!

as Self

1971
Columbo

as Alan Mallory

1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

1963
The Girl Hunters

as Mike Hammer

1954
Ring of Fear

as Mickey Spillane

Creator

1984
Mike Hammer

as Creator