Richard Sale
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1911-12-17 (82 years old)
Deathday
1993-03-04
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known As
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Richard Sale
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Sale, (17 December 1911, New York – 4 March 1993, Los Angeles) was an American screenwriter and film director. He started his career writing for the pulps in the Thirties, appearing regularly in Detective Fiction Weekly (with the Daffy Dill series), Argosy, Double Detective, and a number of other magazines. In the Forties, he graduated to slick publications like The Country Gentleman and The Saturday Evening Post. In the mid-Forties, he made a career change from writing magazine fiction to screenplays. A big boost to Sale's success was his novel Not Too Narrow...Not Too Deep, filmed as Strang...
Acting
1946
as Flight Clerk
1947
as Mailman
Production
1951
as Director
1950
as Story
1977
as Screenplay
1977
as Novel
1987
as Writer
1954
as Screenplay
1953
as Director
1954
as Screenplay
1955
as Director
1955
as Screenplay
1949
as Writer
1957
as Director
1957
as Screenplay
1954
as Director
1947
as Screenplay
1947
as Screenplay
1951
as Director
1950
as Director
1948
as Screenplay
1952
as Director
1950
as Director
1951
as Director
1950
as Screenplay
1956
as Story
1948
as Writer
1958
as Screenplay
1958
as Story
1947
as Director
1950
as Screenplay
1949
as Screenplay
1946
as Screenplay
1949
as Writer
1947
as Screenplay
1948
as Screenplay
1966
as Novel
1954
as Writer
1938
as Story
1948
as Director
1948
as Writer
1950
as Screenplay
1946
as Story
1940
as Novel
1953
as Screenplay
1951
as Screenplay
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