Maxwell Shane

Maxwell Shane
Born	August 26, 1905(1905-08-26) Paterson, New Jersey, United States
Died	October 25, 1983(1983-10-25) (aged 78) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States

Maxwell Shane (August 26, 1905 - October 25, 1983) was an American movie and television director, screenwriter, and producer.

Biography

Before embarking in a career in show business, Shane studied law at USC and UCLA law schools. He later became a journalist and moved on to become a Hollywood publicist and later, a screenwriter. Most of his early work was forgettable low budget films. Becoming a director in 1947, he worked on noirish films, as a writer or director, like Hell's Island, Fear in the Night and the remake Nightmare. Shane scripted City Across the River, the 1949 film of Irving Shulman's The Amboy Dukes. In 1960, he became a writer-producer for the Boris Karloff anthology television series Thriller.

Awards

Year	Result	Award	Category	Film or series
1953	Won	Locarno International Film Festival	Artistic quality	The Glass Wall (Tied with Julius Caesar and Kompozitor Glinka

External links

• Maxwell Shane at the Internet Movie Database