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In 1960, Mainwaring was hired by fantasy-film producer-director George Pal to write the screenplay for the MGM Studios film Atlantis, the Lost Continent, released in 1961. He based his script on a play written by Gerald Hargreaves in 1945. Toward the end of his career, in the 1960s, he wrote for TV shows like The Wild Wild West and Mannix.
Dec 23, 2022 · Mainwaring had met Don Siegel way back when he was still working as a publicist. At that point Siegel had been an aspiring director. Something you see again and again - a writer’s career often grows as the network’s career grows. Focus on people at your career stage - work with them and grow with them. It certainly worked for Daniel Mainwaring.
- Daniel Martin Eckhart
Some nice twists in this final script by the great Daniel Mainwaring, author of the classic "Out of the Past." Not in the same league, of course, but above average for '60's episodic TV. (Slightly spoiled by an all-too-typical scene in which cops pull up and, without a word, haul away only the people that need hauling away.
Daniel Mainwaring (February 27, 1902 – January 31, 1977) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Biography. A native of Oakland, California, Mainwaring 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).
Daniel Mainwaring was born on 27 February 1902 in Oakland, California, USA. He was a writer, known for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Out of the Past (1947) and Against All Odds (1984). He died on 31 January 1977 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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- January 31, 1977
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 ...
Oct 19, 2021 · My podcast FASCINATING PEOPLE, FASCINATING PLACES is now active. The first set of episodes are focused on history. Episode one centers around the Roman emperor Caligula as I separate the man from the myth. Read More. New Writing. September 12, 2021.
