Man (1951) - based on novel The Racket (1951) - script Vendetta (1951) - script Law and Order (1953) - based on novel Saint Johnson Arrowhead (1953) - based on novel Dangerous Mission (1954) - script Night People (1954) - uncredited contribution to script Captain Lightfoot (1955) - based on novel, script Illegal (1955) - script I Died a Thousand Times (1956) - based on novel High Sierra, script Accused of Murder (1957) - based on novel Vanity Row, script Short Cut to Hell (1957) - remake of This Gun for Hire The Badlanders (1958) - based on novel The Asphalt Jungle The Hangman (1959) - uncredited contribution to script September Storm (1960) - script The Asphalt Jungle, television series, 13 episodes (1961) - scripts The Lawbreakers (1961) - script Sergeants Three (1962) - story, script Cairo (1963) - from novel The Asphalt Jungle The Great Escape (1963) - script Four for Texas (1963) - uncredited contribution to script The Jackals (1967) - remake of Yellow Sky Ice Station Zebra (1968) - uncredited contribution to script Stiletto (1969) - uncredited contribution to script Cool Breeze (1972) - from novel The Asphalt Jungle References External links W.R. Burnett bibliography W.R. Burnett (bio), by John Strausbaugh, at The Chiseler W.R. Burnett at detnovel.com Portrait of W. R. Burnett, his first wife, Marjorie, and War Cry, the greyhound, Glendale, 1935. Los Angeles TimesPhotographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles. “'Pretty Big Once': W. R. Burnett’s Cynical Americana” by Cullen Gallagher, at the Los Angeles Review of Books 1899 births 1982 deaths 20th-century American novelists American male screenwriters American crime fiction writers O. Henry Award winners Edgar Award winners Writers from Springfield, Ohio Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) Novelists from Ohio American male novelists American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers Screenwriters from Ohio 20th-century American screenwriters