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Max Brand is a Scriptwriter born on 29 may 1893

Max Brand

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Birth name Frederick Schiller Faust
Birth 29 may 1893
Death 12 may 1944 (at 50 years)

Max Brand, pseudonyme de Frederick Schiller Faust, né le 28 mai 1892 à Seattle et mort le 12 mai 1944, est un écrivain américain, auteur de roman policier et de roman western.

Biography

Ses parents meurent alors qu'il n'est encore qu'un enfant. Il grandit au centre de la Californie, où il travaillera plus tard comme cowboy sur un des nombreux ranchs de la vallée de San Joaquin.

Il fait des études supérieures à l'université de Californie à Berkeley, où il écrit dans des publications étudiantes, des revues de poésie et quelques journaux. Faute d'avoir obtenu un diplôme, il rejoint l'Armée canadienne en 1915, dont il quitte toutefois les rangs l'année suivante pour s'installer à New York.

Pendant les années 1910, Faust vend des nouvelles dans des magazines destinés au grand public. Après l'entrée en guerre des États-Unis, il tente sans succès de s'enrôler en 1917. Peu après, Il épouse Dorothy Schillig : le couple aura trois enfants.

Au tournant des années 1910 et 1920, Faust écrit abondamment pour les pulps, des magazines bon marché de littérature populaire. Il se spécialise dans les récits western, mais aussi les récits policiers, qui paraissent sous divers noms de plume, dont celui de Max Brand. Son personnage du Dr. KildareDr. Kildare est repris au cinéma, à la radio, à la télévision et en bandes dessinées. En 1921, surmené, il est victime d'une crise cardiaque qui lui laissera des séquelles pour le reste de sa vie.

En 1934, Faust commence à écrire pour des magazines haut de gamme. Il envoie souvent ses textes depuis une villa en Italie où il réside. En 1938, en raison des événements politiques en Europe, il revient avec sa famille aux États-Unis et s'installe à Hollywood où il travaille comme scénariste pour plusieurs studios de cinéma. Prolifique et estimé, il devient un scénariste en vue. Le studio Warner Brothers verse jusqu'à 3 000$ par semaine (un salaire d'un an pour un travailleur moyen à l'époque), et il fait également fortune grâce aux adaptations mettant en scène le Dr Kildare. Pourtant devenu l'un des écrivains les mieux payés de son temps, Faust dénigre ses succès et n'utilise son vrai patronyme que pour la poésie qu'il considère comme son seul véritable apport littéraire.

Mesurant six pieds trois pouces et pesant environ 200 lbs (sans une once de graisse), il était timide, sauf quand il prenait un verre. Or, Faust devient bientôt alcoolique. Sans se laisser aller à être ivre en public, il préfère avoir recours à l'alcool pour créer. Il soutient fréquemment à cette époque que l'alcool le transporte vers un monde fantastique où il peut écrire.

Au début de 1944, lorsque Frank Gruber, Steve Fisher et Faust travaillent chez Warner, ce dernier parle un jour d'être affecté à une compagnie de soldats pour vivre les combats afin d'écrire, plus tard, un grand roman de guerre. Il devient peu après correspondant de guerre en Italie. En voyageant avec des soldats américains combattant en Italie en 1944, Faust est mortellement blessé par des éclats d'obus.

Best films

Singing Guns (1950)
(Novel)
The Desperadoes (1943)
(Story)

Usually with

Willis Goldbeck
Willis Goldbeck
(12 films)
George Reed
George Reed
(11 films)
Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(11 films)
Alma Kruger
Alma Kruger
(11 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Max Brand (31 films)

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Scriptwriter

Destry
Destry (1954)
, 1h35
Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Western
Actors Mari Blanchard, Audie Murphy, Lyle Bettger, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson, Edgar Buchanan
Roles Novel
Rating65% 3.2929953.2929953.2929953.2929953.292995
The sheriff of a small western town dies of a heart attack and the crooked mayor, The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers (Edgar Buchanan), and leading crook Phil Decker (Lyle Bettger) appoint the town drunk, Reginald T. "Rags" Barnaby (Thomas Mitchell), as the new sheriff, believing that he will be easily controlled by them. Rags, however, announces he is giving up drinking and refuses to accept Decker as his new deputy, telling them that he has someone else in mind: Tom Destry.
My Outlaw Brother, 1h22
Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors Mickey Rooney, Wanda Hendrix, Robert Preston, Robert Stack, José Torvay, Don "Red" Barry
Roles Novel
Rating52% 2.6209252.6209252.6209252.6209252.620925
Danny O'Moore, an Irish lad from New York, has not seen big brother Patrick for eight years. Patrick is said to now own a silver mine in Mexico and sends welcome money to his family in America.
Branded
Branded (1950)
, 1h35
Directed by Rudolph Maté
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Alan Ladd, Mona Freeman, Charles Bickford, Robert Keith, Joseph Calleia, Peter Hansen
Roles Novel
Rating66% 3.33883.33883.33883.33883.3388
Choya, a gunfighter on the run, is tracked down by cowboys Leffingwell and "Tattoo" in the mountains. They make him a part of a scheme to bilk a rich rancher named Lavery. The plan requires a tattoo on Choya's shoulder, but as soon as "Tattoo" creates one, Leffingwell shoots him in the back.
Dark Delusion, 1h30
Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors James Craig, Lionel Barrymore, Lucille Bremer, Edward Arnold, Jayne Meadows, Henry Stephenson
Roles Characters
Rating60% 3.0489853.0489853.0489853.0489853.048985
Dr. Gillespie (Barrymore) asks a young surgeon, Dr. Tommy Coalt (Craig), to go to the small town of Bayhurst to replace a local doctor while he is on assignment to the Occupation effort in post-WWII Europe. There, Coalt is asked to sign mental-health commitment papers on a beautiful young socialite, Cynthia Grace (Bremer). Coalt thinks there is something amiss, and begins his own investigation.
Between Two Women, 1h23
Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Gloria DeHaven, Keenan Wynn, Keye Luke, Alma Kruger
Roles Characters
Rating59% 2.955022.955022.955022.955022.95502
This episode in the series should have been called Between Three Women, because there are plot strands involving three, not two, women. Dr. Gillespie's (Lionel Barrymore) assistant, Dr. Red Adams (Van Johnson), is still fending off the romantic advances of beautiful blond socialite and social worker Ruth Edley (Marilyn Maxwell), who finally succeeds in winning Red's heart. The second woman is a pretty night club singer Edna (Gloria DeHaven), who collapses suddenly one night after a show and cannot understand why she is no longer able to eat. Red finds out that a complicated subconscious obsession is the cause. The third woman is Sally (Marie Blake), the reliable and wise-cracking switchboard operator in all of the episodes. Sally is stricken with Bright's Disease and refuses to let anyone besides Red operate on her ailing kidney. Things turn out well for Red and all three women.
Uncertain Glory, 1h42
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Political films, Films about capital punishment, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson, Faye Emerson, James Flavin, Dennis Hoey
Rating70% 3.54213.54213.54213.54213.5421
During World War II, Jean Picard (Errol Flynn) is a convicted killer being led to the guillotine. He escapes during an air raid but is captured by French Sûreté Inspector Marcel Bonet (Paul Lukas). They learn that a bridge has been blown up by three saboteurs, and that the Germans have taken 100 hostages who will be killed unless the saboteurs are apprehended by the Vichy police. To buy time in order to escape again, Picard persuades Bonet to let him pose as one of the saboteurs to save the hostages. In the course of enacting a story that will convince the Vichy that Picard is one of the escaped saboteurs, he and Bonet encounter the real saboteur, captured by the Vichy, and aid him in escaping.
The Desperadoes, 1h27
Directed by Budd Boetticher, Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, Edgar Buchanan, Porter Hall
Roles Story
Rating63% 3.1941653.1941653.1941653.1941653.194165
In 1863, a sheriff named Steve Upton (Randolph Scott) tries to keep the law in Red Valley, a small town in Utah. While he's away, the bank is robbed. The holdup was secretly masterminded by corrupt banker Stanley Clayton and the livery stable's boss, "Uncle Willie" McLeod, with the help of ruthless gunman Jack Lester, who shoots three innocent men.
Dr. Kildare's Victory, 1h32
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Ann Ayars, Robert Sterling, Jean Rogers, Alma Kruger
Roles Characters
Rating61% 3.0950453.0950453.0950453.0950453.095045
Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) is involved in a dispute between two competing hospitals. The trouble begins when an intern rushes a beautiful girl to Kildare's hospital. She has a shard of glass imbedded in her heart.
Calling Dr. Gillespie, 1h24
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Donna Reed, Philip Dorn, Phil Brown, Nat Pendleton, Alma Kruger
Roles Characters
Rating61% 3.0984853.0984853.0984853.0984853.098485
Finishing school student Marcia Bradburn (Donna Reed) has good news for her boyfriend, Roy Todwell (Phil Brown). Her father has given his permission for their engagement. However, when she refuses to elope with him immediately, Roy inexplicably picks up a flagstone and kills his dog with it, then drives off.
Powder Town, 1h19
Directed by Rowland V. Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, June Havoc, Dorothy Lovett, Eddie Foy, Jr., Damian O'Flynn
Roles Novel
Rating54% 2.7152752.7152752.7152752.7152752.715275
Young J. Quincy Pennant is a brilliant but absent minded scientist who has come up with an amazing theory. Unlike skip bombing, Pennant is experimenting with detonating explosives where the shock wave can be sent like a stone skipping over distances without hitting immediate targets, but able to destroy targets at a further distance away, even if they are behind walls. He is sent to a "powder town", a rapidly growing city being built around an arsenal and munitions factory where wartime population growth has brought in criminals, enemy spies and saboteurs.
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare, 1h18
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Bonita Granville, Alma Kruger, Red Skelton
Roles Story
Rating62% 3.1470553.1470553.1470553.1470553.147055
Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) performs an emergency operation on crash victim Frances Marlowe (Bonita Granville), an ice-skating star. While recovering in Blair General Hospital, Frances discovers that her leg is paralyzed, and promptly sues Dr. Kildare and his hospital for negligence.
Dr. Kildare Goes Home, 1h19
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Samuel S. Hinds, Gene Lockhart, Nat Pendleton
Roles Story
Rating64% 3.2443853.2443853.2443853.2443853.244385
Doctor James Kildare (Lew Ayres), just appointed resident assistant at the Byng State Hospital by his mentor Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), is forced to return to his hometown when his general-practitioner father (Samuel S. Hinds) collapses from overwork.
Dr. Kildare's Crisis, 1h15
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Robert Young, Nat Pendleton, Walter Kingsford
Roles Screenstory
Rating60% 3.04923.04923.04923.04923.0492
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