Top Ten Collaborators - Hitch-Hiker
by milam_ogden | created - 02 Feb 2014 | updated - 02 Feb 2014 | PublicOne of my favorite film noir classics, Hitch-Hiker is the quintessential short thriller directed by Ida Lupino. This was unheard of during the 50s. Here are the top 10 collaborators behind this classic. William Talman is awesome as Emmett Myers.
1. Robert L. Joseph
Writer | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Robert L. Joseph was born on March 10, 1923 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963), The Third Secret (1964) and The Hitch-Hiker (1953). He was married to Susan Clark. He died on April 27, 2002 in East Chatham, New York, USA.
wrote the original story
2. Collier Young
Writer | One Step Beyond
Collier Young was born on August 19, 1908 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for One Step Beyond (1959), The Hitch-Hiker (1953) and Never Fear (1950). He was married to Marjory Ann Marsh, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino and Ruth Valerie Edmonds. He died on December 25,...
wrote screenplay along with Ida Lupino
3. Ida Lupino
Actress | High Sierra
Ida was born in London to a show business family. In 1932, her mother took Ida with her to an audition and Ida got the part her mother wanted. The picture was Her First Affaire (1932). Ida, a bleached blonde, went to Hollywood in 1934 playing small, insignificant parts. Peter Ibbetson (1935) was ...
first and only female director of a film noir movie.
4. Nicholas Musuraca
Cinematographer | Out of the Past
Italian-born Nicholas Musuraca's first job in the film business was as a chauffeur to early pioneering producer/director J. Stuart Blackton. Having a knack for photography, he worked behind the cameras in a variety of jobs before finally becoming a cinematographer (or, as they were called in those ...
cinematographer for this film
5. Leith Stevens
Composer | The War of the Worlds
Leith Stevens was born on September 13, 1909 in Mount Moriah, Missouri, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for The War of the Worlds (1953), Destination Moon (1950) and Julie (1956). He was married to Mary McCoy and Elizabeth Stevens. He died on July 23, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Music for this classic
6. William Talman
Actor | The Hitch-Hiker
William Talman is best known for his role as Hamilton Burger, the district attorney who perpetually lost to Perry Mason in the long-running series Perry Mason (1957). Talman was an accomplished screenwriter and stage and screen actor, and appeared in numerous roles on television as a character ...
the villain of this thriller
7. Edmond O'Brien
Actor | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Oscar-winner Edmond O'Brien was one of the most respected character actors in American cinema, from his heyday of the mid-1940s through the late 1960s. Born on September 10, 1915, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, O'Brien learned the craft of performance as a magician, reportedly tutored by...
one of the men that was hitchhiked
8. Frank Lovejoy
Actor | In a Lonely Place
Square-jawed, intense, no-nonsense Frank Lovejoy played a succession of detectives, street cops, reporters, soldiers and such over his career. Born in the Bronx, New York, in 1912, he worked on Wall Street as a teenager, but the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929 cost him his job, and to make ends ...
2nd fishman to be kidnapped.
9. José Torvay
Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
José Torvay was born on January 28, 1909 in Durango, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) and My Outlaw Brother (1951). He was married to Ofelia Carranza Silva. He died on March 19, 1972 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
played the Mexican police chief
10. Sam Hayes
Actor | High Sierra
Sam Hayes was born on November 2, 1904 in Cooksville, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for High Sierra (1940), Exclusive (1937) and The Hitch-Hiker (1953). He was married to Sally Woods. He died on July 28, 1958 in San Diego, California, USA.
was the radio broadcasteer
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