Ben Maddow
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Benjamin D. Maddow (August 7, 1909 in Passaic, New Jersey – October 9, 1992 in Los Angeles, California) was a prolific screenwriter and documentarian from the 1930s through the 1970s. Educated at Columbia University, Maddow began his career working within the American documentary movement in the 1930s.
In 1936 he co-founded the short-lived left-wing newsreel The World Today. Under the pseudonym of David Wolff, Maddow co-wrote the screenplay to the Paul Strand–Leo Hurwitz documentary landmark, Native Land (1942).
He earned his first feature screenplay credit with Framed (1947). Other screenplays include Clarence Brown's Intruder in the Dust (1949, an adaptation of the William Faulkner novel), John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination), Johnny Guitar (1954, credited to Philip Yordan, God's Little Acre (1958, an adaptation of the Erskine Caldwell novel officially credited to Philip Yordan as a HUAC-era "front" for Maddow), and, again with Huston, an Edgar Award for Best Mystery Screenplay) and The Unforgiven (1960).
As a documentarian he directed and wrote such films as Storm of Strangers, The Stairs, and The Savage Eye (1959), which won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award. Maddow made his solo feature directorial debut with the striking, offbeat feature An Affair of the Skin (1963), a well-acted story of several loves and friendships gone sour and marked by the rich characterisations which had distinguished his best screenplays.
In 1961, Maddow and Huston co-wrote the episode "The Professor" of the 1961 television series The Asphalt Jungle. In 1968 he wrote a screenplay based on Edmund Naughton's novel McCabe; while a film adaptation of the novel was ultimately produced as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Maddow wasn't credited on the film. His final screenplay was for the horror melodrama The Mephisto Waltz (1970).
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Johnny Guitar
Escritor
Lo que no se perdona
Guionista
Contratado para morir
Guionista
El camino del oeste
Guionista
Mientras la ciudad duerme
Guionista
El salvaje
Additional Writing
Baile con el diablo
Escritor
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Guionista
The Man from Colorado
Guionista
Men in War
Guionista
Murder by Contract
Guionista
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
Adaptation
Framed
Guionista
No Down Payment
Escritor
Rencor
Guionista
Two Loves
Guionista
The Savage Eye
Escritor, Director, Productor
Native Land
Escritor
Shadow in the Sky
Guionista
An Affair of the Skin
Productor, Escritor, Director
The Balcony
Escritor, Productor
The Steps of Age
Director, Escritor
Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men
Escritor
People of the Cumberland
Escritor
Man on a String
Escritor
The World Today: The Black Legion - Shadow of Fascism Over America
Escritor
United Action Means Victory
Escritor
Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record
Escritor