
Phil Karlson
Biography
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Phil Karlson (July 2, 1908, Chicago, Illinois – December 12, 1985, Los Angeles, California) was a film director known for his no-nonsense film noirs. Karlson directed 99 River Street, Kansas City Confidential and Hell's Island all with actor John Payne in the early 1950s. Other films include Rocky (1948), The Phenix City Story (1955), 5 Against the House (1955) and The Young Doctors (1961).
Phil Karlson was the son of popular Irish actress Lillian O'Brien.
He studied painting at Chicago's Art Institute, and law, at his father's request, at Loyola Marymount University in California.
Karlson got into the film industry working as a prop man while a law student. After working a number of film jobs, including being an assistant director for a number of Abbott and Costello films, Karlson directed his first film in 1944 and in 1948 directed the first film starring Marilyn Monroe, Ladies of the Chorus. He worked on a number of low-budget projects for Monogram Pictures and Eagle-Lion Films before making his mark in 1950. It was then that he was known for directing tough, realistic and sometimes violent gritty crime films. In the 1960s the quality of his directed films declined, which included working on Kid Galahad (1962) with Elvis Presley and two Dean Martin Matt Helm spy films, including The Wrecking Crew (1969) co-starring Sharon Tate and Elke Sommer. He had his biggest success in 1973 when he directed the hit film, Walking Tall. The film made the director a rich man many times over, thanks to the fact that he owned a huge part of the movie.
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Directing (52 movies)

The Wrecking Crew
1968

Kansas City Confidential
1952

A Time for Killing
1967

The Silencers
1966

Scandal Sheet
1952

Walking Tall
1973

The Brothers Rico
1957

The Phenix City Story
1955

Ben
1972

Hell to Eternity
1960

Ride the Wild Surf
1964

99 River Street
1953

Gunman's Walk
1958

The Secret Ways
1961

Framed
1975

The Shanghai Cobra
1945

Dark Alibi
1946

5 Against the House
1955

Hell's Island
1955

Swing Parade of 1946
1946

Ladies of the Chorus
1948

Kid Galahad
1962

Tight Spot
1955

Hornets' Nest
1970

Bowery Bombshell
1946

Key Witness
1960

Rampage
1963

Wife Wanted
1946

They Rode West
1954

Live Wires
1946

Behind the Mask
1946

The Missing Lady
1946

Mask of the Avenger
1951

The Big Cat
1949

The Scarface Mob
1959

The Young Doctors
1961

The Brigand
1952

G.I. Honeymoon
1945

Lorna Doone
1951

Down Memory Lane
1949

The Texas Rangers
1951

Alexander The Great
1968

Rocky
1948

Adventures in Silverado
1948

The Iroquois Trail
1950
There Goes Kelly
1945

Thunderhoof
1948

Black Gold
1947

Kilroy Was Here
1947

A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
1944

Louisiana
1947

The Sunrise Gun
1959
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