Patrick McGilligan (biographer)
Patrick McGilligan (born April 22, 1951)[1] is an Irish American biographer, film historian and writer. His biography on Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light was a finalist for the Edgar Award.[2] He is the author of two New York Times Notable Books. He lives in Milwaukee. McGilligan is noted for his biography on Clint Eastwood, Clint: The Life and Legend, which shaves three years off Sondra Locke's birthdate and operates under that false premise.[a] In addition to Hitchcock and Eastwood, he has written biographies on Robert Altman, James Cagney, George Cukor, Fritz Lang, Oscar Micheaux, Jack Nicholson, Nicholas Ray, Orson Welles and Mel Brooks. He edited Backstory, which featured interviews of Hollywood screenwriters and was published by the University of California Press.[5]
Notable works[edit]
- Funny Man: Mel Brooks
- Clint: The Life and Legend
- George Cukor: A Double Life
- Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
- Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast
- Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
- Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
- Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director
- Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist with Paul Buhle
Notes[edit]
- ^ Locke was born in 1944, a fact which invalidates the bedrock of the stories told in Clint: The Life and Legend. On page 229, McGilligan reports her birth year as 1947, and the lie is used as a reference point for more subterfuge on pages 260, 289, 312, 347, 388 and 409. McGilligan repeats this disinformation in the 2015 revised edition, even though Locke's true age had been nationally acknowledged for several years by that point.[3][4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Patrick Michael McGilligan" at Encyclopedia.com.
- ^ "Patrick McGilligan from HarperCollins Publishers". Harper Collins. Archived from the original on 2006-11-03.
- ^ "HAPPY BIRTHDAY for May 28". San Francisco Examiner.
- ^ "Almanac May 28, 2011". The Express-Times.
- ^ Riskin, Robert; McGilligan, Patrick (1997). Six Screenplays. University of California Press. ISBN 0585332606. OCLC 45843349.
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