Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

Author 20 / Writer 9 / Creator · 1939 – 2011 · 🎬 10 📺 1 📖 20

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once.

All · 31 🎬 Movies · 10 📺 TV · 1 📖 Books · 20

Fiction Private investigators Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character) Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled Private investigators, fiction

Highlights

High Window

High Window

2011

The Big Sleep and Other Novels

The Big Sleep and Other Novels

2008

Collected Stories

Collected Stories

2002

Frequent Collaborators

Billy Wilder

4 shared

Bess Flowers

4 shared

George Magrill

3 shared

Tom Powers

3 shared

Sam McDaniel

2 shared

Alan Ladd

2 shared

All decades 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

🎬 Movies

Farewell, My Lovely

writer

1977

The Long Goodbye

writer

1973

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

writer

1967

Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train

writer

1952

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity

writer

1950

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity

actor

1950

Lady in the Lake

writer

1947

The Blue Dahlia

The Blue Dahlia

writer

1946

The Unseen

writer

1945

And Now Tomorrow

writer

1944

📺 TV Shows

Philip Marlowe

Philip Marlowe

creator

1959

📖 Books

High Window

High Window

author

2011

The Big Sleep and Other Novels

The Big Sleep and Other Novels

author

2008

Collected Stories

Collected Stories

author

2002

Poodle Springs

Poodle Springs

author

1989

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe

author

1988

Trouble Is My Business

Trouble Is My Business

author

1972

Killer in the rain

Killer in the rain

author

1964

Playback

Playback

author

1958

The Long Goodbye

The Long Goodbye

author

1953

The Raymond Chandler omnibus

The Raymond Chandler omnibus

author

1953

The simple art of murder

The simple art of murder

author

1950

The Little Sister

The Little Sister

author

1949

Spanish blood

Spanish blood

author

1946

The Lady in the Lake

The Lady in the Lake

author

1943

The high window

The high window

author

1942

Farewell, My Lovely

Farewell, My Lovely

author

1940

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

author

1939

The big sleep

The big sleep

author

Trouble Is My Business

Trouble Is My Business

author

The Long Goodbye

The Long Goodbye

author

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