Edward Bunker

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Edward Bunker (1952)

Edward Heward Bunker (born December 31, 1933 in Hollywood , California - † July 19, 2005 in Burbank , California) was an American writer and actor.

Life

Bunker came into conflict with the law as a child and was sentenced to prison several times as a teenager. At 18 he got ten years in prison and ended up in San Quentin , but was released on parole after four and a half years. After further offenses, he was again sentenced to 14 years, seven of which he served - again in San Quentin. He began to write while in prison, but his first novel was not published until 1973 after he had been convicted and released several times.

In the mid-1970s, Hollywood discovered the qualities of 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 worked regularly as a screenwriter and actor. For example, he played Mr. Blue in Quentin Tarantino's film Reservoir Dogs and the inmate Jonah in Express to Hell , whose script he played a major role. His books and film scripts are largely based on his own experiences in prison. For his autobiography Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade , he received the prestigious Dagger Award for crime literature (non-fiction) in 2000.

Edward Bunker died in 2005 of complications from an operation.

Works

Novels

  • 1973 No Beast So Fierce
    • Wilder than ein Tier, German by Ulrich Wünsch, Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1995. ISBN 3-499-43152-1
  • 1977 The Animal Factory
    • Place of damnation, German by Michael K. Georgi, Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1996. ISBN 3-499-43248-X
  • 1996 Dog Eat Dog
  • 1997 Little Boy Blue
  • 2007 strong
  • 2010 Death Row Breakout and other stories

Autobiographical

  • 1999 Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade (published in 2001 in the USA under Education of a Felon: A Memoir )

Scripts

Movies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scott Wilson: Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. McFarland, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4766-2599-7 ( google.de [accessed June 11, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Bunker, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bunker, Edward Heward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Hollywood , Los Angeles , California
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 2005
Place of death Burbank , California