About

Known credits:
25
Birthday:
1918-03-09
Place of birth:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Mickey Spillane

Overview

Mickey Spillane is an American author of hardcore detective stories. Wrote more than 20 novels with a circulation of more than 140 million copies. He began his writing career as a writer for comics. Spillane published his first novel, Judgment Is Me, in 1946. The hero of this and twelve other books is private detective Mike Hammer, one of the most popular characters in popular culture. Spillane's novels have been adapted many times in film and television. Spillane himself played the role of a detective in the movie (Ring of Fear / Ring of Fear, 1954). Films based on his novels became classics, including Kiss Me Deadly (1955) and The Girl Hunters (1963), with his own participation. In The Girl Hunters, Spillane played his character Mike Hammer. This is one of the rarest cases in history when the author plays the role of the hero he created. He also appeared as a writer in the television series about Colombo (episode "Publish or Perish"). Spillane's huge success is usually credited to the successful mixture of his gruff language, the rigidity of the characters, and the abundance of erotic scenes. His books, as fellow detective writer Raymond Chandler has said, can be described as "a mixture of violence and outright pornography." However, they have become a classic of the genre.

Known for

Acting
2005 The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides Actor Narrator 59
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1998 Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane Actor Self 59
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1997 Mommy's Day Actor Attorney Neal Ekhardt 58
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1995 Mommy Actor Attorney Eckhart 58
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1992 Hammar Actor Himself N/A
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1963 The Girl Hunters Actor Mike Hammer 58
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1954 Ring of Fear Actor Mickey Spillane 58
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Writing
2023 Mickey Spillane's Encore for Murder Writing Characters N/A
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2006 Mike Hammer: A New Leaf Writing Writer N/A
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1998 Mike Hammer: Song Bird Writing Characters N/A
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1994 Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery Writing Writer 58
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1989 Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All Writing Characters 58
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1984 More Than Murder Writing Characters 59
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1983 Murder Me, Murder You Writing Characters 59
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1982 I, the Jury Writing Novel 58
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1981 Margin for Murder Writing Characters 59
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1970 The Delta Factor Writing Novel 58
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1967 Aslan Yürekli Kabadayı Writing Novel N/A
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1963 The Girl Hunters Writing Novel 58
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1963 The Girl Hunters Writing Screenplay 58
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1957 My Gun Is Quick Writing Novel 58
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1955 Kiss Me Deadly Writing Novel 64
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1954 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer! Writing Characters N/A
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1954 The Long Wait Writing Novel 59
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1953 I, the Jury Writing Novel 59
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