Raymond Chandler

Known for WritingBorn 1888-07-23Died 1959-03-26Chicago, Illinois, USA

Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature. He is a founder of the hardboiled school of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers. The protagonist of his novels, Philip Marlowe, like Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective".Read more

Movies & web series

Double Indemnity

Strangers on a Train

The Long Goodbye

The Big Sleep

The Long Goodbye

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye

Morning Patrol

Murder, My Sweet

Farewell, My Lovely

Fallen Angels

The Blue Dahlia

Marlowe

Marlowe

The Falcon Takes Over

The Big Sleep

Lady in the Lake

Time to Kill

Poodle Springs

The Brasher Doubloon

And Now Tomorrow

Once You Meet a Stranger

Double Indemnity

The Unseen

Climax!

The Coronation

Red Wind

Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go: A Portrait of Raymond Chandler