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May 5, 2019 · Charles Marquis Warren (pictured left in 1955), born 1912, died 1990, was an important contributor to our noble genre, the Western. I myself don’t actually like all the Westerns he wrote, directed or produced. Some were weak and some were even rather unpleasant.
Being active as a director, producer and writer Charles Marquis "Bill" Warren had a big influence in the western genre, especially in television. Warren had an important role in putting some of the longest running western series - like Rawhide, Gunsmoke and The Virginian - on the air and is often mentioned as the creator/developer of those series (even though he was never credited as such ...
Birthday: Dec 16, 1912. Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, USA. After early success as a contributor to pulp magazines, Charles Marquis Warren went on to a prolific career as a writer, producer, and ...
Marquis Warren was born somewhere in the United States of America and from his first breath, he was a slave sold to the Southern States and forced to work on a plantation. Eventually, he joined the Union army during the Civil War and killed as many Southern Confederate soldiers as he could, gaining a reputation in the battlefield for numerous years, with a bounty placed on his head by the ...
Two-part interview. Film, television writer-director-producer. Attending West Point, playing football at Princeton; becoming friend and godson of F. Scott Fitzgerald; Fitzgerald's influence on his own writing; going to Hollywood in 1934 as a writer at Metro; return to New York to write magazine stories; the popularity of his first novel, Only the Valiant; working at Paramount for five years ...
[The Seattle Times on Charles Marquis Warren] 'A producer and director who as a writer considered himself the author of dramatic histories rather than a teller of Western tales, Warren's talents spanned the entire range of things theatrical.'
Ride a Violent Mile: Directed by Charles Marquis Warren. With John Agar, Penny Edwards, John Pickard, Bing Russell. Cowhand Jeff Donner meets Susan Crowley, a spy for the Union in the Civil War, and gets dragged into her espionage ring that is out to foil the South's attempts to break the blockade keeping them from obtaining food and supplies.
