Melodie Johnson

Melodie Johnson

Nacimiento : 1943-10-23, Los Angeles, California, USA

Historia

Melodie Johnson Howe, born 23octobre1943 in Los Angeles, is a former actress, now author of detective story. She is interested in writing at a young age and writes short plays remained unpublished. She studied at the University of California, Los Angeles in creative writing. Yet in 1965, she embarked on an acting career in Hollywood. She appears in episodes generic several television series, including The Virginian, It Takes a Thief, Bewitched and Mannix. She also landed small roles in film, especially in Coogan's Bluff (1968) Don Siegel, alongside Clint Eastwood, and bootleggers Wars (1970) Richard Quine, with Patrick McGoohan and Richard Widmark. It ended his acting career in the early 1980. Under her married name, Melodie Johnson Howe, she published a few years apart Shadow The Mother (1989) and Beauty Dies (1994), two thrillers putting Directed by Claire and Maggie Conrad Hill, two female detectives who maintain professional relationships similar to those prevailing between Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, the heroes of Rex Stout. In 2011, she published Shooting Hollywood (2011), a collection of stories that tell the adventures of Diana Poole, former actress in her forties looking to resume his career and still is forced to solve criminal cases which continue to divert his art. In 2013 seems City of Mirrors, the first book devoted to this new heroine.   

Perfil

Melodie Johnson

Películas

I Love a Mystery
Charity
Three insurance investigators search for a mysterious billionaire. Based on the Old Time Radio show of the same name.
Powderkeg
Miss Baker
A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and holds the passengers as hostages unless his brother is released. Now both the Americans and Mexicans are baffled as to what to do. One of the passengers — who wrote the letter for their captor — has a suggestion: call mercenaries Hank Brackett and Johnny Reech. They do, and as expected they do come up with a plan, but the president of the railroad is not sure if it will work.
Rabbit, Run
Lucy Eccles
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off and running on a rambling, aimless journey.
El infierno del Whisky
Lizann Simpson
En 1932, mientras se espera la abolición de la Ley Seca, en un pequeño pueblo algunas personas se dedican a destilar whisky clandestinamente, pero su negocio se complica con la llegada de un agente federal.
Los locos años de Chicago
Lilah Letterby
Comedia del director Norman Jewison de 1969, basada en las memorias de Ben Hecht, protagonizada por Beau Bridges como un joven aprendiz de un periódico de una gran ciudad. El reparto también incluye a Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith, Hume Cronyn, George Kennedy, Wilfred Hyde-White y Margot Kidder.
La jungla humana
Millie
Hasta Nueva York llega Walt Coogan (Clint Eastwood), un sheriff de Arizona que persigue a un peligroso asesino que ha escapado de su jurisdicción. Acostumbrado a utilizar métodos más propios de un vaquero que de un policía, choca con los sistemas que utilizan los agentes de la gran ciudad.
Cabalgando hacia el árbol del ahorcado
Lillie
Dos amigos son salvados por un tercero, justo cuando iban a ser ahorcados. Una vez fuera de peligro, los tres se separan para comenzar una nueva vida. Antes de partir, uno de ellos se lleva el dinero de los tres. Remake del western de George Sherman "El enmascarado", de 1948. (FILMAFFINITY)
Fame Is the Name of the Game
Belle
A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names contained in it.