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James Edward Gunn (August 22, 1920, San Francisco, California – September 22, 1966, Los Angeles, California) was an American film and television screenwriter and producer. He attended Stanford University.
His credits include Affair in Trinidad , The Young Philadelphians , The Unfaithful , Over-Exposed , Man from 1997 on the television series Conflict , and Because They're Young . Gunn was born in San Francisco in 1920 and was known for his work in hardboiled fiction and crime stories, including the TV detective series 77 Sunset Strip , Checkmate , and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer . Earlier, in 1947, RKO Pictures released its controversial crime drama Born to Kill , which was based on Gunn's 1942 work Deadlier Than the Male , his only published novel. [1] He died in Los Angeles in 1966 at the age of 46. [2] James Gunn also created a pilot for a Western series called "Mountain Man", which portrayed the activities and adventures surrounding a Rocky Mountain fur trading station in the 1840s. [3]
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