About

Known credits:
49
Birthday:
1902-07-22
Place of birth:
Oakland, California, USA
Website:
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Daniel Mainwaring

Overview

Daniel Mainwaring (aka Geoffrey Homes) (July 22, 1902 – January 31, 1977) was an American novelist and screenwriter. A native of Oakland, California, he began his professional career as a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle and enjoyed a successful career as a mystery novelist (under the name Geoffrey Homes). He worked as a film publicist and eventually abandoned fiction for a successful career as a screenwriter.

His first novel (and the only one he ever published under his own name), One Against the Earth, was a proletarian novel about a young man born on a California ranch who becomes a drifter and is eventually unjustly accused of attacking a child, was published in 1932. He made his real mark, however, with a string of hard-boiled mystery novels (mostly with small-town California settings), the first of which was The Man Who Murdered Himself (1936).

His final published novel, Build My Gallows High (William Morrow & Co., 1946), is generally regarded as his best—and its adaptation (by "Homes" himself) into the film noir classic Out of the Past assured his place in film history. Mainwaring explained to interviewer Pat McGilligan that he regarded the novel as a departure from his earlier literary efforts:

With Build My Gallows High, I wanted to get away from straight mystery novels. Those detective stories are a bore to write. You've got to figure out "whodunit". I'd get to the end and have to say whodunit and be so mixed up I couldn't decide myself.

(Wikipedia)

Known for

Writing
1984 Against All Odds Writing Writer 58
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1984 Against All Odds Writing Novel 58
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1965 Catacombs Writing Screenplay 58
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1965 Convict Stage Writing Writer 59
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1962 East of Kilimanjaro Writing Story N/A
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1961 Atlantis: The Lost Continent Writing Writer 58
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1960 The Revolt of the Slaves Writing Dialogue 58
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1960 Walk Like a Dragon Writing Writer 58
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1958 The Gun Runners Writing Screenplay 58
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1958 Space Master X-7 Writing Screenplay 58
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1958 Cole Younger, Gunfighter Writing Screenplay 59
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1957 Baby Face Nelson Writing Writer 59
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1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers Writing Screenplay 69
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1955 The Phenix City Story Writing Screenplay 59
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1955 A Bullet for Joey Writing Screenplay 58
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1955 An Annapolis Story Writing Screenplay 58
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1954 The Desperado Writing Screenplay 59
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1954 Black Horse Canyon Writing Screenplay 59
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1954 Southwest Passage Writing Screenplay 58
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1954 Alaska Seas Writing Writer 58
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1953 Those Redheads from Seattle Writing Screenplay 58
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1953 Powder River Writing Writer 58
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1953 The Hitch-Hiker Writing Story 61
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1952 Bugles in the Afternoon Writing Screenplay 58
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1952 This Woman Is Dangerous Writing Screenplay 58
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1951 Roadblock Writing Story 59
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1951 The Tall Target Writing Story 59
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1951 The Last Outpost Writing Screenplay 59
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1950 The Eagle and the Hawk Writing Screenplay 58
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1950 The Lawless Writing Writer 58
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1949 The Big Steal Writing Screenplay 59
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1949 Roughshod Writing Screenplay 58
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1947 Out of the Past Writing Screenplay 68
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1947 Out of the Past Writing Novel 68
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1946 Swamp Fire Writing Screenplay 58
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1946 Big Town Writing Screenplay 58
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1946 Big Town Writing Story 58
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1946 Hot Cargo Writing Writer N/A
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1946 They Made Me a Killer Writing Screenplay 59
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1946 Tokyo Rose Writing Screenplay 58
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1945 Scared Stiff Writing Screenplay 58
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1944 Dangerous Passage Writing Writer 58
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1944 Crime by Night Writing Novel 59
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1942 Secrets of the Underground Writing Story 58
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1942 Secrets of the Underground Writing Screenplay 58
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1941 Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case Writing Characters 58
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1941 No Hands on the Clock Writing Novel 58
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Crew
1948 Big Town Scandal Crew Radio Play 58
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1947 Big Town After Dark Crew Radio Play 58
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