with many of the greats in acting and directing, including Raoul Walsh, John Huston, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Nicholas Ray, Douglas Sirk, and Michael Cimino, John Wayne (The Dark Command), Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Paul Muni, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood. He received an Oscar nomination for his script for Wake Island (1942) and a Writers Guild nomination for his script for The Great Escape. In addition to his film work he also wrote scripts for television and radio. Later years In later years, with his vision declining, he stopped writing and turned to promoting his earlier work. In his career he achieved huge popularity in Europe, where his anti-hero ideology was enthusiastically embraced. On his death in 1982, in Santa Monica, California, Burnett was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Critical reception Heywood Broun described Burnett's novel Goodbye to the Past as "written with all the excitement of Little Caesar, and ten times the skill". Works Novels Little Caesar (Lincoln MacVeagh/The Dial Press - 1929) Iron Man (Lincoln MacVeagh/The Dial Press - 1930) Saint Johnson (Lincoln MacVeagh/The Dial Press - 1930) The Silver Eagle (Lincoln MacVeagh/The Dial Press - 1931) The Beast of the City (Grosset & Dunlap - 1932) [not properly a Burnett novel; credit on the book reads "novelized by Jack Lait, from the screen story by W.R. Burnett"; the book was published concurrently with the release of the M-G-M film, circa March 1932] The Giant Swing (Harper - 1932) Dark Hazard (Harper - 1933) Goodbye to the Past: Scenes from the Life of William Meadows (Harper - 1934) The Goodhues of Sinking Creek (Harper - 1934) Dr. Socrates (O'Bryan House Publishing LLC - 2007) [Originally serialized in Colliers Weekly Magazine in 1935] King Cole (Harper - 1936) The Dark Command: A Kansas Iliad (Knopf - 1938) High Sierra (Knopf - 1941) The Quick Brown Fox (Knopf - 1943) Nobody Lives Forever (Knopf - 1943) Tomorrow's Another Day (Knopf - 1946) Romelle (Knopf - 1947) The Asphalt Jungle (Knopf - 1949) Stretch Dawson (Gold Medal - 1950). The film Yellow Sky (1948) was based on an early version of the novel. Little Men, Big World (Knopf - 1952) Adobe Walls: A Novel of the Last Apache Rising (Knopf - 1953) Vanity Row (Knopf - 1952) Big Stan (Gold Medal - 1953) - written under pseudonym "John Monahan" Captain