Patrick McGilligan at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.

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. He 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.[lower-alpha 1] 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

  • 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

  1. ↑ Locke was born in 1944, a fact which invalidates the bedrock of the stories reiterated in Clint: The Life and Legend.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Patrick Michael McGilligan" at Encyclopedia.com.
  2. ↑ "Patrick McGilligan from HarperCollins Publishers". Harper Collins. Archived from the original on 2006-11-03.
  3. ↑ "Sondra Locke, actress who starred with Clint Eastwood, dies at 74". The Washington Post. December 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ On page 229, McGilligan reports her birth year as 1947, and the lie is used as a reference point for misinformation on pages 229, 260, 289, 312, 347, 388 and 409.
  5. ↑ Riskin, Robert; McGilligan, Patrick (1997). Six Screenplays. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-585-33260-6. OCLC 45843349.


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