Person
Jo Eisinger
Writing · 1909–1991 · New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Jo Eisinger (July 24, 1909 – January 1991) was a film and television writer whose career spanned more than 40 years from the early 1940s well into the 1980s. He is widely recognized as the writer of two of the most psychologically complex film noirs, Gilda (1946) and Night and the City (1950).
Known for
Danger Man
Writer
The Lawless Years
Writer
Gilda
Adaptation
Cold Sweat
Writer
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
Writer
Bedevilled
Writer
Paris Precinct
Creator
Night and the City
Screenplay
Crime of Passion
Screenplay
The Dirty Game
Writer
Filmography
- 1983The Jigsaw ManScreenplay
- 1983Philip Marlowe, Private EyeWriter
- 1970Cold SweatWriter
- 1968They Came to Rob Las VegasScreenplay
- 1967The RoverWriter
- 1967The Scorpio LettersWriter
- 1966The Poppy Is Also a FlowerScreenplay
- 1965The Dirty GameWriter
- 1960Danger ManWriter
- 1960Oscar WildeScreenplay
- 1960Mistress of the World - Part IIWriter
- 1960Mistress of the World - Part IWriter
- 1959As the Sea RagesWriter
- 1959The House of the Seven HawksScreenplay
- 1959The Lawless YearsWriter
- 1957The Big BoodleScreenplay
- 1956Crime of PassionScreenplay
- 1955BedevilledWriter
- 1955Paris PrecinctCreator
- 1953The SystemWriter
- 1950The Sleeping CityStory
- 1950Night and the CityScreenplay
- 1946The Walls Came Tumbling DownNovel
- 1946GildaAdaptation
- 1945The SpiderWriter
- 1942Just Off BroadwayIdea
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