No photo available. Represent Cornell Woolrich? Add or change photos at IMDbPro
STARmeter
SEE RANK
Down 309 this week

Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968)

Writer

Prolific mystery writer Cornell Woolrich was born in New York City, but his parents separated when he was young and he spent much of his childhood in Latin America with his father. Then he was sent back to New York to live with his rich, domineering mother, Claire. He attended Columbia University where he wrote his first novel... See full bio »

Born:

Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich
in New York City, New York, USA

Died:

(age 64) in New York City, New York, USA
More at IMDbPro » Contact Info on IMDbPro Contact Info: View manager
5 videos | 50 news articles »

Quick Links:

Related News

Jesús Franco obituary
5 April 2013 10:22 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News
DVD Review: 'Dark Crimes' from Chandler, Hammett & Woolrich in Tantalizing TCM Noir Box Set
4 December 2012 9:04 AM, PST | Thompson on Hollywood
What Movie Should Be Adapted to the Stage?
25 October 2012 6:00 PM, PDT | Movies.com
See all 50 related articles »

Projects In Development help

It Had to Be Murder
Details only on IMDbPro »
Create a list  »

Related Lists

image of name
Top Ten Film Noir - Literary Sources
a list of 10 people by milam_ogden created 2 months ago
 
image of name
::WRITERS OF TWISTY THRILLERS::
a list of 65 people by Schwenkstar created 25 Nov 2011
 
image of name
Ferncliff Harstdale
a list of 85 people by Syl created 8 months ago
 
See all related lists »

Do you have a demo reel?

Add it to your IMDbPage

Francine Locke Film Reel -- Family Law (Best Actress, Gideon), Stealing Home (Best Supporting Actress-nom.) 168 Project, True Tale Monster (Albert P. Weisman Award), The Discarded (2011 Feature Release).

Francine Locke Film Reel

Melanie Molnar - Reel -- No description provided.

Melanie Molnar - Reel

David H. Lawrence, XVII - Drama -- On-camera drama reel featuring David H. Lawrence XVII, in scenes from Heroes, The Unit, LOST, and more

David H. Lawrence, XVII - Drama

My Demo Reel -- Includes clips from GLORY DAZE, COMMUNITY and horror film URBAN EXPLORER.

My Demo Reel

Christopher Mann's Theatrical Demo Reel -- This reel contains Christopher performing in Film and Television. The clips included are from the following: "The Boundary", "The Wire", "Duplicity", "Law & Order(SVU)", "Michael Clayton", "Cost Of A Soul", "HEROES" and "Law & Order (CI)".

Christopher Mann's Theatrical Demo Reel


Find out more at IMDbPro »

Connect with IMDb

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of Cornell Woolrich.
1 win & 1 nomination See more awards »

Known For


Show Show all  | 
Show by:
Edit

Filmography

Hide HideWriter (99 titles)
2001 Original Sin (novel "Waltz Into Darkness")
 
2001 She's No Angel (TV movie) (novel "I Married a Dead Man" - uncredited)
 
1997-2000 The Hunger (TV series)
– I'm Very Dangerous Tonight (2000) (story)
– I'm Dangerous Tonight (1997) (story)
 
1998 Rear Window (TV movie) (story)
 
1998 Die Unschuld der Krähen (TV movie) (book)
 
1996 Mrs. Winterbourne (novel "I Married a Dead Man")
 
1993-1995 Fallen Angels (TV series)
– The Black Bargain (1995) (story)
– A Dime a Dance (1995) (story)
– Murder, Obliquely (1993) (story)
 
1990 I'm Dangerous Tonight (TV movie) (short story)
 
1989 Corsa in discesa (story "Debt of Honor")
 
1986 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series)
– Four O'Clock (1986) (story)
 
1986 You'll Never See Me Again (TV movie) (story / as George Hopley)
 
1985 Intrigues (TV series)
– L'oeil du mort (1985) (novel)
 
1984 Cloak & Dagger (story)
 
1983 J'ai épousé une ombre (novel "I Married a Dead Man" / as William Irish)
 
1982 Darkroom (TV series)
– Guillotine (1982) (story)
 
1981 Kamen no hanayome - Kurayami e no waltz (TV movie) (novel "Waltz Into Darkness" / as William Irish)
 
1980 Akai shisen (TV movie) (novel "Deadline at Dawn" / as William Irish)
 
1980 Union City (short story "The Corpse Next Door")
 
1979 Histoires insolites (TV series)
– Le locataire d'en haut (1979) (short story "The Man Upstairs")
– Une dernière fois Catherine (1979) (novel "I'll Take You Home Kathleen" / as William Irish)
– Tu comprends ça, soldat? (1979) (short story / as William Irish)
– Folies douces (1979) (short story "Silent as a Grave" / as William Irish)
 
1975 La pupa del gangster (story "Collared")
 
1974 Ficciones (TV series)
– Pesadilla (1974)
 
1974/I Martha (TV movie) (story "For the Rest of Her Life")
 
1973 Les yeux qui hurlent (TV movie) (novel / as William Irish)
 
1973 You'll Never See Me Again (TV movie) (short story)
 
1972 Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso (novel "Rendezvous in Black" - uncredited)
 
1969 Mississippi Mermaid (based on the novel by / as William Irish)
 
1968 Journey to the Unknown (TV series)
– Jane Brown's Body (1968) (story)
 
1968 The Bride Wore Black (novel "The Bride Wore Black" / as William Irish)
 
1967 Yoru no wana (novel "The Black Angel")
 
1966 The Boy Cried Murder (story)
 
1964-1965 Tras la puerta cerrada (TV series)
– El Plazo Expira Al Amanecer (1965)
– La Hija De Endicot (1964)
 
1965 Dro itsureba gantiadisas (novel "Deadline at Dawn")
 
1964 Aa bakudan (story)
 
1963 Bire on vardi (novel "Deadline at Dawn")
 
1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV series)
– The Black Curtain (1962) (novel "The Black Curtain" / as William Irish)
 
1962 A Intrusa (TV series) (novel "I Married a Dead Man" / story "They Called Me Patrice" / as William Irish)
 
1961 Thriller (TV series)
– Guillotine (1961) (story)
– Late Date (1961) (story)
– Papa Benjamin (1961) (story)
 
1960 Moment of Fear (TV series)
– Fire by Night (1960) (story)
 
1960 Shisha to no kekkon (story "I Married a Dead Man" / as William Irish)
 
1960 Gran teatro (TV series)
– Pesadilla (1960)
 
1959 Armchair Theatre (TV series)
– You'll Never See Me Again (1959) (story)
 
1959 TV Teatro (TV series)
– Caça ao Campeão (1959)
 
1956-1958 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series)
– Post Mortem (1958) (story)
– Momentum (1956) (story)
– The Big Switch (1956) (story)
 
1958 Schlitz Playhouse (TV series)
– Bluebeard's Seventh Wife (1958) (writer)
 
1957 Suspicion (TV series)
– Four O'Clock (1957) (story)
 
1957 The George Sanders Mystery Theater (TV series)
– The Night I Died (1957) (story)
 
1957 The Web (TV series)
– Added Attraction (1957) (story)
 
1957/I Escapade (novel / as William Irish)
 
1955-1957 The Ford Television Theatre (TV series)
– The Lie (1957) (story)
– The Blue Ribbon (1955) (story)
– Husband (1955) (story)
 
1957 G.E. True Theater (TV series)
– Cab Driver (1957) (story "Cab, Mister?")
– The Earring (1957) (story)
 
1954-1957 Lux Video Theatre (TV series)
– The Black Angel (1957) (novel)
– The Guilty (1956) (story "He Looked Like Murder")
– The Chase (1954) (novel "The Black Path of Fear")
 
1957 Studio 57 (TV series)
– You Take Ballistics (1957) (story)
 
1956 Playhouse 90 (TV series)
– Rendezvous in Black (1956) (story)
 
1956 Grande Teatro Tupi (TV series)
– Janela Indiscreta (1956)
 
1956 Nightmare (novel)
 
1956 Climax! (TV series)
– Sit Down with Death (1956) (story / as William Irish)
 
1956 Four Star Playhouse (TV series)
– The Listener (1956) (story)
 
1956 El ojo de cristal (story "El ojo del muerto" / as William Irish)
 
1956 Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (TV series)
– Once Upon a Nightmare (1956) (story)
 
1955 Stage 7 (TV series)
– Debt of Honor (1955) (story)
 
1954 Obsession (story "Silent as the Grave" / as William Irish)
 
1954 Rear Window (short story)
 
1954 TV de Vanguarda (TV series)
– Passos Que Sobem (1954) (story)
 
1954 The Mask (TV series)
– Framed for Murder (1954) (story)
 
1953 The Revlon Mirror Theater (TV series)
– Summer Dance (1953) (story)
– Lullaby (1953) (story)
 
1953 The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (TV series)
– Wait for Me Downstairs (1953) (story)
 
1952 Lights Out (TV series)
– Nightmare (1952) (story)
 
1952 La huella de unos labios (story "El Cuello de la Camisa" / as William Irish)
 
1952 Si muero antes de despertar (as William Irish)
 
1952 No abras nunca esa puerta (stories Somebody on the Phone and Hummingbird Comes Home / as William Irish)
 
1950-1951 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV series)
– I Wouldn't Want to Be in Your Shoes (1951) (short story)
– Three O'Clock (1951) (story)
– The Phantom Lady (1950) (novel)
 
1951 El pendiente (story "The Earring" / as William Irish)
 
1951 Manhunt (TV series)
– Through a Dead Man's Eye (1951) (story)
 
1950 Nash Airflyte Theatre (TV series)
– I Won't Take a Minute (1950) (story "Finger of Doom")
 
1949-1950 Suspense (TV series)
– Nightmare (1950) (story)
– Post Mortem (1949) (story)
– After Dinner Story (1949) (story)
– The Man Upstairs (1949) (story)
– Revenge (1949) (story)
See all 6 episodes »
 
1950 No Man of Her Own (novel "I Married a Dead Man" / as William Irish)
 
1949 The Boris Karloff Mystery Playhouse (TV series)
– The Night Reveals (1949) (story)
– Three O'Clock (1949) (story)
 
1949 The Silver Theatre (TV series)
– Silent as the Grave (1949) (story)
 
1949 The Window (based on a story by)
 
1949 Actor's Studio (TV series)
– Three O'Clock (1949) (story)
 
1948 Night Has a Thousand Eyes (based on the novel by)
 
1948 I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (novel)
 
1948 The Return of the Whistler (story)
 
1947 Fear in the Night (story "Nightmare" / as William Irish)
 
1947 The Guilty (story "He Looked Like Murder")
 
1947 Fall Guy (story "Cocaine")
 
1946 The Chase (book "The Black Path of Fear")
 
1946 Black Angel (novel)
 
1946 Deadline at Dawn (novel / as William Irish)
 
1944 The Mark of the Whistler (story)
 
1944 Phantom Lady (based on the novel by / as William Irish)
 
1943 The Leopard Man (novel "Black Alibi")
 
1942 Street of Chance (novel "The Black Curtain")
 
1938 Convicted (original story "Face Work")
 
1934 Manhattan Love Song (novel)
 
1929 House of Horror (dialogue / as William Irish)
 
1929 Children of the Ritz (story)
 
1929 Seven Footprints to Satan (as William Irish / titles)
 
1928 The Haunted House (as William Irish / titles)
 

Related Videos

Fear in the Night -- A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 4: Episode 25 -- A waitress and her boyfriend plan the death of an elderly rich guest. Original Sin -- A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
See all 5 »
Edit

Personal Details

Other Works:

(1946) Novel: "Nightmare" (filmed as Nightmare, Fear in the Night, Nightmare, Nightmare) See more »

Publicity Listings:

3 Print Biographies  | 3 Articles  | See more »

Alternate Names:

George Hopley | William Irish
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia:

Bequeathed $825,000 to his alma mater Columbia University for writing scholarships. See more »

Star Sign:

Sagittarius