Joseph Stefano(1922-2006)

Creative horror screenwriter Joseph Stefano has been writing scripts since the early sixties. His first was L'orchidée noire (1958). Less than a year later, he met his new friend, Alfred Hitchcock, to do the famous script for Psychose (1960). Stefano decided to drop the assignment for Hitchcock's Les Oiseaux (1963). Stefano later wrote a screenplay for Les Griffes de la peur (1969) and, by the early 1970s, he did numerous made for TV screenplays including Revenge! (1971), Reveillon en famille (1972) and Snowbeast (1977). When the 1980s came around, Stefano had no great intention to write any more scripts, and he was discouraged when Alfred Hitchcock died in 1980. It wasn't until the early 1990s that he wrote the script for the last sequel in the Psycho series (he dropped the other scripts for II and III) - Psychose IV (1990). Stefano has won many awards for his writing.