Daniel Mainwaring Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Daniel Mainwaring (22 July 1902 – 31 January 1977) was a novelist and screenwriter. A native of Oakland, California, he began his professional career as a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle and enjoyed a successful career as a mystery novelist (under the name Geoffrey Homes). He also worked as a film publicist and eventually abandoned fiction for a successful career as a screenwriter.His first novel (and the only one he ever published under his own name), One Against the Earth, was a proletarian novel about a young man born on a California ranch who becomes a drifter and is eventually unjustly accused of attacking a child, was published in 1932. He made his real mark, however, with a string of hard-boiled mystery novels (mostly with small-town California settings), the first of which was The Man Who Murdered Himself (1936). His final published novel, Build My Gallows High (William Morrow & Co., 1946), is generally regarded as his best—and its adaptation (by "Homes" himself) into the film noir classic Out of the Past assured his place in film history. Mainwaring explained to interviewer Pat McGilligan that he regarded the novel as a departure from his earlier literary efforts:With Build My Gallows High, I wanted to get away from straight mystery novels. Those detective stories are a bore to write. You've got to figure out "whodunit". I'd get to the end and have to say whodunit and be so mixed up I couldn't decide myself. [1]By the time Out of the Past appeared in 1947, Mainwaring had already begun to devote himself exclusively to screenwriting (usually under the Homes pseudonym). Other notable credits during this period included The Big Steal (1949, directed by Don Siegel) and This Woman is Dangerous (1952, with Joan Crawford). His first important film work bearing his real name were the 1954 shot-on-location crime thriller The Phenix City Story (1954) and the original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Part of what made the latter film's vision of an alien invasion of a small California town was its convincing evocation of small-town life. As director Joseph Losey, whose The Lawless was adapted by Mainwaring from the writer's own short story (publication undetermined), The Voice of Stephen Wilder, noted:This is one of the things that makes me very close to Dan Mainwaring--his experience of Americana, the nostalgia of the good things about small towns. I remember the smell of burning leaves at night in the autumn too. And I remember the smell of Christmas, the sparkle in the air at football games, and the sound of distant trains. And Dan remembers them all. He's a much underrated writer and he's a really quite noble man. He damaged himself with drink and he was very badly hurt by the blacklist.According to Frank Krutniks book Un-American“ Hollywood, Loseys memory seems to serve him wrong wrong here. Mainwaring's widow remembers that actually Mainwaring himself acted as a front for blacklisted author Paul Jarrico.
Educated at Fresno College. Initially active as a private detective and journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle. First worked in Hollywood in the publicity department of Warner Brothers (1934), later under contract at RKO (1946-50). Writer of hard-boiled crime novels. Often wrote his screenplays under the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes.
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Began his career as a press agent. One of his earliest clients was Humphrey Bogart.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Tormenta
1955
screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes / story - as Geoffrey Homes
The Phenix City Story
1955
screenplay - as Dan Mainwaring
A Bullet for Joey
1955
as Geoffrey Homes
An Annapolis Story
1955
screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes
The Desperado
1954
as Geoffrey Homes
Black Horse Canyon
1954
screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes
Southwest Passage
1954
screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes
Alaska Seas
1954
as Geoffrey Homes
Those Redheads from Seattle
1953
written for the screen by - as Geoffrey Homes
Powder River
1953
screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes
The Hitch-Hiker
1953
uncredited
Bugles in the Afternoon
1952
screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes
This Woman Is Dangerous
1952
screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes
Roadblock
1951
story - as Geoffrey Homes
The Tall Target
1951
story - as Geoffrey Homes
The Last Outpost
1951
as Geoffrey Homes
The Lawless
1950
written for the screen by - as Geoffrey Homes
The Eagle and the Hawk
1950
screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes
The Big Steal
1949
screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes
Roughshod
1949
screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes
Big Town Scandal
1948
radio program Big Town
Big Town After Dark
1947
radio program: "Big Town" - uncredited
Out of the Past
1947
novel "Build My Gallows High" - as Geoffrey Homes / screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes
Swamp Fire
1946
original screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes / story - uncredited
Big Town
1946
screenplay - as Geoffrey Holmes / story - as Geoffrey Holmes
Hot Cargo
1946
as Geoffrey Homes
They Made Me a Killer
1946
screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes
Tokyo Rose
1946
screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes
Scared Stiff
1945
screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes
Dangerous Passage
1944
original screenplay - as Geoffrey Holmes
Crime by Night
1944
novel "Forty Whacks" - as Geoffrey Homes
Secrets of the Underground
1942
original story - as Geoffrey Homes / screenplay - as Geoffrey Homes
Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
1941
character - as Geoffrey Holmes
No Hands on the Clock
1941
novel "No Hands on the Clock" - as Geoffrey Holmes
Against All Odds
1984
1947 screenplay
Mannix
1968
TV Series written by - 1 episode
Cimarron Strip
1968
TV Series written by - 1 episode
Custer
1967
TV Series written by - 1 episode
The Wild Wild West
1967
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Court Martial
TV Series written by - 1 episode, 1966 writer - 1 episode, 1965
Convict Stage
1965
screenplay
A Man Called Shenandoah
1965
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Woman Who Wouldn't Die
1965
Target: The Corruptors
1962
TV Series teleplay - 1 episode
Cain's Hundred
1962
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The George Raft Story
1961
uncredited
Atlantis, the Lost Continent
1961
La rivolta degli schiavi
1960
English dialogue
The Renegade
1960
TV Movie
Outlaws
1960
TV Series 1 episode
Walk Like a Dragon
1960
written by
Adventures in Paradise
1960
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
The Gun Runners
1958
screenplay
Space Master X-7
1958
original screenplay
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
1958
writer
The Californians
1958
TV Series story - 1 episode
East of Kilimanjaro
1957
story
The Restless Gun
1957
TV Series teleplay - 1 episode
Baby Face Nelson
1957
screenplay
General Electric Summer Originals
TV Series writer - 1 episode, 1956 teleplay - 1 episode, 1956