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Philip Yordan (1914–2003)

Philip Yordan was born on April 1, 1914 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Detective Story (1951), Broken Lance (1954) and Dillinger (1945). He was married to Faith Clift and Marilyn Nash. He died on March 24, 2003 in La Jolla, California, USA. See full bio »

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Known For

Detective Story
Detective Story Writer
(1951)
Broken Lance
Broken Lance Writer
(1954)
Dillinger
Dillinger Writer
(1945)
Captain Apache
Captain Apache Writer
(1971)
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Filmography

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 1988 The Unholy (written by)
 1988 Bloody Wednesday (screenplay) / (story)
 1987 Cry Wilderness (original story) / (screenplay)
 1985 Night Train to Terror (screenplay)
 1984 The Dark Side to Love (screenplay)
 1983 Savage Journey (TV Movie) (screenplay)
 1980 Cataclysm
 1977 Anna Lucasta (TV Movie) (play)
 1977 Brigham
 1971 Bad Man's River (screenplay)
 1971 Captain Apache (screenplay)
 1969 The Royal Hunt of the Sun (writer)
 1965 Battle of the Bulge (written by)
 1964 Circus World (front for Bernard Gordon)
 1964 The Fall of the Roman Empire (screenplay)
 1963 55 Days at Peking (screenplay)
 1963 Invasion of the Triffids (front for Bernard Gordon)
 1961 El Cid (screenplay)
 1961 King of Kings (screenplay)
 1960 Studs Lonigan (written by)
 1959 Day of the Outlaw (screenplay)
 1958 Anna Lucasta (based on the play by - uncredited) / (screenplay by)
 1958 God's Little Acre (screenplay)
 1958 The Fiend Who Walked the West (screenplay)
 1958 The Bravados (screenplay)
 1958 Island Women (writer)
 1957 No Down Payment (screenplay)
 1957 Street of Sinners (story)
 1957 Gun Glory (based on novel: "Man of the West")
 1957 Men in War (screenplay - front for Ben Maddow)
 1956 The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV Series) (from a screenplay by - 1 episode)
- The Last Patriarch (1956) ... (from a screenplay by)
  Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) (original screenplay - 1 episode, 1956) (previous screenplay - 1 episode, 1954)
- Betrayed (1956) ... (original screenplay)
- The Chase (1954) ... (previous screenplay)
 1956 The Harder They Fall (screen play)
 1955 The Last Frontier (screenplay)
 1955 Joe MacBeth (screenplay)
 1955 The Man from Laramie (screenplay)
 1955 Conquest of Space (adaptation)
 1955 The Big Combo (by)
 1954 Broken Lance (story)
 1954 Johnny Guitar (screenplay)
 1954 The Naked Jungle (screenplay - front for Ben Maddow)
 1953 Man Crazy
 1953 Blowing Wild (written by)
 1953 Houdini (screenplay)
 1952 Mara Maru (from a story by)
 1952 Mutiny (screenplay)
 1951 Detective Story (screenplay)
 1951 Drums in the Deep South (screenplay)
 1950 No Way Out (contract writer - uncredited)
 1950 Edge of Doom
 1950 Panic in the Streets (contract writer - uncredited)
 1949 Reign of Terror (screenplay by) / (story by)
 1949 Anna Lucasta (based on the play: Anna Lucasta) / (screenplay)
 1949 House of Strangers (screenplay)
 1949 Badmen of Tombstone (screenplay)
 1946 The Chase (written for the screen by)
 1946 Suspense (original screenplay) / (story - uncredited)
 1946 Whistle Stop (screenplay)
 1945 Woman Who Came Back (suggested by)
 1945 Dillinger (original screenplay)
 1944 When Strangers Marry (screenplay)
 1944 Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore (screenplay)
 1942 Syncopation (screenplay)
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Personal Details

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(10/28/46) Stage: Wrote "Anna Lucasta," performed at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, OH, with Ossie Davis and Ruby Deein the cast. See more »

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Personal Quote:

[on serving as a "front" for blacklisted writers in the 1950s]: I tell you, I never read a newspaper until I was fifty. I never looked at television until the 1970s. I never read "Time" magazine. I never tended to be political, I never voted. So I didn't understand this whole blacklist thing.

Trivia:

Although also a prolific writer himself, he served as a front for friends and other writers who had been blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Living in Paris during the blacklist days, his basement was often filled with blacklisted writers working in cubicles, churning out screenplays. See more »

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