Bill S. Ballinger
Bill S. Ballinger, origin. William Sanborn Ballinger ( born March 13, 1912 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, † March 23, 1980 in Tarzana, California ) was an American writer.
Life
Ballinger studied at the University of Wisconsin and completed this study in 1934 successfully. Subsequently, he earned his living in the editorial offices of various radio and television stations.
1936 Ballinger married Geraldine Taylor. After ten years of this marriage ended in divorce in 1946. In the following years Ballinger traveled extensively through Europe and the Middle East. In the winter of 1948/49, he returned back to the U.S. and settled in California and he worked mainly as a screenwriter.
1949 Ballinger married his second wife Laura Dunham. She died in 1962 and two years later he married his third wife Lucille Rambeau. 1977/78 he was a member of the " board of directors of health and welfare plan and pension plan " and subsequently he was entrusted with the management of the " Federal Credit Union ". In parallel, had Ballinger from 1977 to 1979 as " associate professeur of writing " a teaching position at California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles.
Two weeks after his 68th birthday, Bill S. Ballinger died on March 23, 1980 in Tarzana, Calif.. and found his final resting place.
Honors
Reception
Under his name, as well as under the pseudonyms "B. S. Sanborn "and" Frederic Freyer " emerged more than 80 texts for the radio and 150 for television.
The number of his thirty books begins in 1948 with the release of The body in the bed and ends in 1979 with The California story. The former is a variation of the Maltese Falcon ( Dashiell Hammett ) and in the latter to Ballinger dealt with the history of the Federal Credit Union, whose president he had once been.
For his crime novels Ballinger invented the private investigator Barry Breed from Chicago, Ill., and the CIA agent Joaquin Hawke, who was of Indian origin.
Some of his novels was made into a film. The novel Portrait in Smoke (1950 ) was in 1956 by Ken Hughes, under the title "No one walked past her " Wicked as they come into a film. Two years earlier, Richard Quine filmed the novel Push Over.
Works (selection)
- The body beautiful. 1949
- The body in the bed. 1948
- The chinese mask 1965
- The spy in the jungle. 1965
- The tooth of the nail. 1955
- The wife of the red - haired man. 1957
- The Corsian. 1974 ( the story of the "Union Corse " from 1943 to 1973 )
- 49 days of death. 1969 ( an interpretation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead )
- The beautiful trap. 1953
- Operation CIA. 1966 ( Directed by Christian Nyby )
- The Strangler. 1964 ( directed by Burt Topper )