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Mickey Spillane
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American crime novelist (1918–2006)
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Vinony's link graph records 343 inbound references to Mickey Spillane, and connects out to Brooklyn, Murrells Inlet and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.
Vinony files it under 1918 births, 2006 deaths and 20th-century American male actors.
Vinony links it to 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 9 March 1918
- Died
- 17 July 2006
- Works
- 292
Top works
- האדמונית בסכנה
- Return of the Hood
- The death dealers
- Me, hood!
- אני הוא החוק
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Film & TV
Writing · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Frank Morrison Spillane (/spɪˈleɪn/; March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist called the "king of pulp fiction". His stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself in the 1965 film…
Known for
- The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides — Narrator (voice)2005
- Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane — Self1998
- Mommy's Day — Attorney Neal Ekhardt1997
- Mommy — Attorney Eckhart1995
- Hammar — Himself1992
- Dinah! — Self1974
- Columbo — Alan Mallory1971
- The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest1968
- The Girl Hunters — Mike Hammer1963
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self1962
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Ireland
- Active from
- 1959-01-06
Discography
- Atlantic Bridge1987
- Out of the Air1988
- Shadow Hunter1990
- Pipedreams1991
- EastWind1992
- A Place Among the Stones1994
- Forgotten Days2001
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 62
- Total plays
- 449
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mickey+Spillane">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 20
- Cited by
- 36
Research areas
Most cited works
- Kiss Me, Deadly1952 · 16 cit
- Vengeance Is Mine1950 · 8 cit
- The Big Kill1951 · 4 cit
- The Girl Hunters1962 · 3 cit
- One Lonely Night1951 · 3 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,779x
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,337x
- An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics
· 2018 · cited 3,148x
- Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes
· 2020 · cited 2,828x
- Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas
· 2018 · cited 2,816x
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Quotes
- “Those big-shot writers … could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.”
- “In there. The words hit me hard. In there was my best friend lying on the floor dead. The body. Now I could call it that. Yesterday it was Jack Williams, the guy that shared the same mud bed with me through two years of warfare in the stinking slime of the jungle. Jack, the guy who said he'd give his right arm for a friend and did when he stopped a bastard of a Jap from slitting me in two. He caught the bayonet in the biceps and they amputated his arm.”
- “I threw back the sheet anyway and a curse caught in my throat. Jack was in shorts, his one hand still clutching his belly in agony. The bullet went in clean, but where it came out left a hole big enough to cram a fist into.”
- “The cops aren't exactly dumb, you know. We can get our own answers.Not like I can. That's why you buzzed me so fast. You can figure things out as quickly as I can, but you haven't got the ways and means of doing the dirty work. That's where I come in. You'll be right behind me every inch of the way, but when the pinch comes I'll get shoved aside and you slap the cuffs on. That is, if you can shove me aside. I don't think you can.”
- “Don't worry, I don't underrate the cops. But cops can't break a guy's arm to make him talk, and they can't shove his teeth in with the muzzle of a .45 to remind him that you aren't fooling. I do my own leg work, and there are a lot of guys who will tell me what I want to know because they know what I'll do to them if they don't. My staff is strictly ex officio, but very practical.”
- “The roar of the .45 shook the room. Charlotte staggered back a step. Her eyes were a symphony of incredulity, an unbelieving witness to truth. Slowly, she looked down at the ugly swelling in her naked belly where the bullet went in."How c-could you?" she gasped.I had only a moment before talking to a corpse, but I got it in."It was easy," I said.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Frank Morrison Spillane , ( 1918-03-09 ) March 9, 1918, Brooklyn , New York, U.S.
- Died
- July 17, 2006 (2006-07-17) (aged 88), Murrells Inlet, South Carolina , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist actor
- Period
- 1947–2006
- Genre
- Hardboiled crime fiction , detective fiction
- Notable awards
- Inkpot Award (1994)
- Spouse
- Mary Ann Pearce (1945–1963), Sherri Malinou (1965–1983), Jane Rogers Johnson (1983)
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Mickey Spillane Columbo 1974.JPG
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Mickey Spillane
- date of birth
- 1918-03-09
- date of death
- 2006-07-17
- name in native language
- Mickey Spillane
- start of work period
- 1947-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Frank Morrison Spillane (/spɪˈleɪn/; March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, called the "king of pulp fiction". He was best known for stories featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer.
Spillane's total sales rank him among the most successful fiction authors of the modern era, with industry estimates exceeding 200 million copies of his 26 books sold. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself in the 1963 film The Girl Hunters.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mickey Spillane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.