Full Name | James Ellroy |
Net Worth | $10 Million |
Date Of Birth | March 4, 1948 |
Place Of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
Height | 6' 3" (1.91 m) |
Profession | Writer, Producer, Actor |
Education | Fairfax High School |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Helen Knode |
Parents | Geneva Odelia Hilliker Ellroy, Armand Ellroy |
Facebook | http://www.facebook.com/JamesEllroy |
IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0255278 |
Awards | Edgar Grand Master Award |
Nominations | Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, Shamus Award for Best Original P.I. Paperback |
Movies | Rampart, Street Kings, The Black Dahlia, Dark Blue, Brown's Requiem, L.A. Confidential, Cop, James Ellroy: American Dog, White Jazz |
TV Shows | The Lead Sheet |
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1 | A crime novelist. Fellow crime novelist Robert Crais must be a fan of Ellroy because he name-checks him in his novel, The Sentry. |
2 | During a 2005 book tour, Ellroy predicted that the film adaptation of his novel, The Black Dahlia, would be "an intriguing flop". The film was a box office failure. |
3 | In an article for the UK magazine Neon, Ellroy listed these as his ten favorite crime movies: L.A. Confidential (1997), The Godfather: Part II (1974), The Prowler (1951), Crime Wave (1954), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), The Killing (1956), Plunder Road (1957), The Lineup (1958), 711 Ocean Drive (1950), Vertigo (1958). |
4 | In an E-pinion article on Empire Online, James Ellroy listed these as his Top 10 favorite films: Vertigo (1958), The Godfather: Part II (1974), The Prowler (1951), The Lineup (1958), The Big Knife (1955), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Double Indemnity (1944), Out of the Past (1947), 711 Ocean Drive (1950). |
5 | Was asked by his editor to shorten his novel "White Jazz" from 900 pages to 350. Rather than removing sub-plots, Ellroy achieved this by eliminating verbs, creating a unique style of prose. |
6 | Wrote several scripts that never got made. Among others: White Heat, the remake of Raoul Walsh's classic; 77, a tough police drama set in South Central dealing with the SLA shootout with SWAT in the seventies; White Jazz, an adaptation of his own crime novel; and Mr. Smith, a film noir inspired by the real-life activities of LAPD firearms expert Richard Smith. |
7 | His first unpublished novel was titled "L.A. Death Trap", which was later revised to give the first drafts of "Blood on the Moon", "Because the Night" and "Suicide Hill", three novels also known as the Lloyd Hopkins trilogy. |
8 | Is a huge supporter of the Los Angeles Police Department. He also has several friends on the force, like robbery-homicide Detective Rick Jackson and L.A. County Sheriff William Stoner. |
9 | Is a good friend of crime novelist Edward Bunker. |
10 | Is an avid fan of ex-LAPD officer turned novelist Joseph Wambaugh. |
11 | Prior to his success, he used to work as a golf caddy at the Bel Air Country Club. |
12 | "The Black Dahlia" (1987) was his seventh novel. It was based on the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short. The same case was also the basis for John Gregory Dunne's 1977 novel and later movie True Confessions (1981) with Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall ). Black Dahlia was the first novel in a series to become known as "The L.A. Quartet." "L.A. Confidential," "White Jazz," and "The Big Nowhere" are the other novels in the quartet. |
13 | The brutal murder of his mother, Jean Ellroy, in 1958, was the basis of his 1996 memoir "My Dark Places". |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Página 2 | 2010-2015 | TV Series | Himself - Guest / Himself |
La grande librairie | 2010-2015 | TV Series | Himself |
Le grand journal de Canal+ | 2010-2015 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Àrtic | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
Los Angeles: Cité du Film Noir | 2015 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Late Night with Seth Meyers | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
A Night at the Movies: Cops & Robbers and Crime Writers | 2013 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Interviewee |
The A to Z of Crime | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Himself / Himself - Host |
Café Picouly | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
The Cost of Living: Creating the Prowler | 2011 | Video short | Himself |
Last Call with Carson Daly | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
Tavis Smiley | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
Ànima | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
Continuarà... | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
Efter Tio | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
Strada | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
Che tempo che fa | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
Allez à L.A.! | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Biography | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Mobsters | 2008 | TV Series | Himself - Author, 'L.A. Confidential' |
A True Ensemble: The Cast of L.A. Confidential | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself |
Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential' | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself |
Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential' | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself |
L.A. Confidential: From Book to Screen | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself |
Durch die Nacht mit... | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Murder by the Book | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
James Ellroy: American Dog | 2006 | Video documentary | Himself |
Breakfast with the Arts | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
Shadows of Suspense | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself |
Rankin on the Staircase | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | |
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
James Ellroy Uncensored | 2005 | Documentary short | Himself |
Just the Facts | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Author 'L.A. Confindetial' |
The O'Reilly Factor | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
Late Night with Conan O'Brien | 1995-2004 | TV Series | Himself |
Bazaar Bizarre | 2004 | Documentary | Himself, author |
Das Bus | 2003 | Documentary | Himself |
Vakvagany | 2002 | Documentary | Himself |
Besuch bei James Ellroy | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
James Ellroy's Feast of Death | 2001 | Documentary | Himself |
Nulle part ailleurs | 1995-2001 | TV Series | Himself |
Un siècle d'écrivains | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
L.A. Confidential: Off the Record... | 1998 | Video documentary short | Himself - Novelist |
James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction | 1998 | Documentary | Himself |
Le cercle de minuit | 1997 | TV Series | Himself |
E! True Hollywood Story | 1997 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A. | 1995 | Documentary | Himself |