Bet you didn't know that the screenwriter and director of KISS ME DEADLY shared the same birthday...
August 9
PAUL KELLY (1899-1956)
Dead Man’s Eyes, Grissly’s Millions, Allotment Wives, The Glass Alibi, Deadline for Murder, Fear in the Night, Crossfire, Thelma Jordon, Split Second, Curfew Breakers
WILLIAM MALTEN (1902-1993)
T-Men (1947)
LEO GENN (1905-1978)
British actor: Queen of Crime, Green for Danger, The Velvet Touch, The Snake Pit, The Green Scarf, The Lowest Crime
ROBERT SURTEES (1906-1985)
Cinematographer: Act of Violence, Intruder in the Dust, The Strip
A.I. BEZZERIDES (1908-2007)
Screenwriter: They Drive by Night, Juke Girl, Desert Fury, Thieves’ Highway, Sirocco, On Dangerous Ground, Track of the Cat, A Bullet for Joey, Kiss Me Deadly
ROBERT ALDRICH (1918-1983)
Director: World for Ransom, Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Night, The Garment Jungle, Ten Seconds to Hell, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Grissom Gang Assistant Director: The Falcon Takes Over, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Body and Soul, Force of Evil, Caught, Red Light, M (1951), The Prowler
ROBERT SHAW (1927-1978)
Doublecross, Libel, Tomorrow at Ten, Figures in a Landscape
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