Philip Yordan Biography (1914-)

Born 1914, in Chicago, IL. Addresses: Office--c/o Writers Guild of America--West, Inc., 8955 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Birth Details: 1914; Chicago, Illinois, United States

Famous Works

Credits; FILM PRODUCER
(With Sidney Harmon) Man Crazy (also see below), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953.
The Harder They Fall (also see below), Columbia, 1956.
Studs Lonigan (also see below), United Artists, 1960.
(With Milton Sperling) The Battle of the Bulge (also see below), Warner Bros., 1965.
(With Louis Dolivet) Custer of the West, Cinerama, 1968.
(With Eugene Frenke) The Royal Hunt of the Sun (also see below), NationalGeneral, 1969.
(With Milton Sperling) Captain Apache (also see below), Scotia, 1971.
(With Mark G. Gilhuis, Robert Ryan, and Susan Gilhuis) Bloody Wednesday (also see below), Visto, 1987.
(With Jay Schlossberg-Cohen) Cry Wilderness (also see below), Visto, 1987.
Writings;SCREENPLAYS
(With Frank Cavett) Syncopation (based on the story "The Band Played On"by Valentine Davies), RKO Radio Pictures, 1942.
The Unknown Guest, Monogram, 1943.
(With Dennis Cooper) When Strangers Marry (also known as Betrayed; basedon a story by George V. Moscov), Monogram, 1944.
(With John Kafka) Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More (based on a story byAlice Means Reeve), Monogram, 1944.
Dillinger, Monogram, 1945.
Whistle Stop (based on a novel by Maritta Wolff), United Artists (UA), 1946.
Suspense, Monogram, 1946.
The Chase (based on the novel The Black Path of Fear by Cornell Woolrich), UA, 1946.
(With Arthur Strawn) Bad Men of Tombstone (based on the novel The Last ofthe Badmen by Jay Monaghan), Allied Artists, 1949.
(With Aeneas Mackenzie) The Black Book (based on a story by Yordan and Mackenzie), Eagle-Lion, 1949.
(With Arthur Laurents) Anna Lucasta (also see below), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949, refilmed with a black cast, UA, 1958.
House of Strangers (based on the novel I'll Never Go There Any More by Jerome Weidman), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949.
(With Ben Hecht) Edge of Doom (based on a novel by Leo Brady),RKO Radio Pictures, 1950.
(With Robert Wyler) Detective Story (based on a play by Sidney Kingsley),Paramount, 1951.
(With Sidney Harmon) Drums in the Deep South (based on a story by Hollister Noble), RKO Radio Pictures, 1951.
(With Sydney Harmon) Mutiny (based on a story by Hollister Noble), UA, 1952.
Houdini (based on a book by Harold Kellock), Paramount, 1953.

Blowing Wild, Warner Bros., 1953.
(With Ranald MacDougall) The Naked Jungle (based on the story "Leiningenversus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson), Paramount, 1953.
(With Sidney Harmon) Man Crazy, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953.
(With Russell Hughes) Johnny Guitar (based on the novel The Gilded Rooster by Richard Emery Roberts), Republic, 1954.
The Big Combo, Allied Artists, 1955.
(With Frank Burt) The Man From Laramie (based on a story by Thomas T.
Flynn), Columbia, 1955.
Joe Macbeth (based on the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare), Columbia,1955.
(With James O'Hanlon, Barre Lyndon, and George Worthing Yates) Conquest of Space (based on the book The Mars Project by Chesley Bonestell and Willy Ley), Paramount, 1955.
(With Russell S. Hughes) Savage Wilderness, Columbia, 1956.
The Harder They Fall (based on a novel by Budd Schulberg), Columbia, 1956.
Street of Sinners, UA, 1957.
No Down Payment (based on a novel by John McPartland), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1957.
(With Leo Townsend) Four Boys and a Gun (based on a novel by Willard Wiener), UA, 1957.
Men in War (based on the novel Combat by Van Van Praag), UA, 1957.
The Bravados (based on a novel by Frank O'Rourke), Twentieth Century-Fox,1958.
(With Harry Brown) The Fiend Who Walked the West (based on a story by Eleazar Lipsky, and a screenplay by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958.
God's Little Acre, UA, 1958.
Island Women (based on a story by Andrew Alexander), UA, 1958.
Day of the Outlaw, UA, 1959.
(With Milton Sperling) The Bramble Bush (based on a novel by Charles Mergendahl), Warner Bros., 1960.
Studs Lonigan (based on the novel by James T. Farrell), UA, 1960.
(With Fredric M. Frank) El Cid, Allied Artists, 1961.
King of Kings, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1961.
(With Robert Hamer and Bernard Gordon) 55 Days at Peking, Allied Artists,1963.
The Day of the Triffids (based on a novel by John Wyndham), Allied Artists, 1963.
(With Ben Barzman and Basilio Franchina) The Fall of the Roman Empire, Paramount, 1964.
(With John Melson and Milton Sperling) The Battle of the Bulge, Warner Bros., 1965.
Crack in the World, Paramount, 1965.
The Royal Hunt of the Sun (based on the play by Peter Shaffer), NationalGeneral, 1969.
(With Milton Sperling) Captain Apache (based on a novel by S. E.
Whitman), Scotia, 1971.
(With Gene Martin) Bad Man's River, Scotia, 1972.
Night Train to Terror, Visto, 1985.
Cry Wilderness, Visto, 1987.
(With Fernando Fonseca) The Unholy, Vestron, 1988.
Also author of additional screenplays, including Reign of Terror, 1949; The Thin Red Line, 1964; Savage Journey, 1983; Last Frontier; and Time Machine.
Writings;STAGE PLAYS
Any Day Now, Studio Theatre, New School for Social Research, New York City, 1941.
Anna Lucasta, American Negro Theatre, New York City, 1944, revived at NewFederal Theatre, New York City, 1978, published by Random House, 1945.
Other Works
Adaptations: The Woman Who Came Back was adapted by Dennis Cooper and LeeWillis from a story by John Kafka and an idea by Yordan, and was released byRepublic, 1945; Mara Maru was adapted by N. Richard Nash from a story by Yordan, Sidney Harmon, and Hollister Noble, and was released by Warner Brothers,1952; Broken Lance was adapted by Richard Murphy from a story by Yordan, released by Twentieth Century-Fox, 1954; Streets of Sinners was adapted by JohnMcPartland from a story by Yordan, released by United Artists, 1957; Gun Glory was adapted by William Ludwig from the novel Man of the West by Yordan, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1957; Circus World was adapted by Ben Hecht, Julian Halevy, and James Edward Grant from a story by Yordan and Nicholas Ray,released by Paramount, 1964.

Further Reference

PERIODICALS

Los Angeles Times, June 26, 1988.
New York Times, November 15, 1978.

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