Edward Bunker
Edward Bunker ( born December 31, 1933, Hollywood, † July 19, 2005 in Burbank, California ) was an American writer and actor.
He came as a child with the law in conflict and has already been convicted as a teenager several times to prison. At 18, he got ten years in prison and ended up in San Quentin, but was discharged after four and a half years on probation. After further offenses, he was sentenced again to 14 years, seven of which he - again in San Quentin - was serving. Even in prison, he began to write, but his first novel was published only in 1973, after he had been several times re- sentenced and released.
Mid-70s Hollywood discovered the qualities of the bunker; Dustin Hoffman produced and starred in Straight Time ( Straight Time ), the film adaptation of No Beast so Fierce wherein bunker also took a first small role. Since 1978, he regularly worked as a screenwriter and actor. He played as Mr. Blue in Quentin Tarantino's film Reservoir Dogs - Wild dogs and the prisoner in Jonah express to hell, to the screenplay he had substantial proportion. His books and film scripts are mostly based on our own experience in prison. For his autobiography Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade he was awarded in 2000 the prestigious Dagger Award for crime fiction ( non- fiction ).
Edward Bunker died in 2005 from complications of surgery.
Works
Novels
- Place of damnation, German by Michael K. Georgi, Reinbek: Rowohlt 1996 ISBN 3-499-43248- X.
- The last coup, dt.von Uschi grace, München: Heyne, 2002 ISBN 3-453-19920-0.
- Call of the night, German by Jürgen citizens, Munich: Liebeskind 2009 ISBN 978-3-935890-61-8.