Cornell Woolrich may be credited as the father of noir fiction, but a long list of novelists and screenwriters are responsible for noir's enduring themes of fear and alienation. These American and European scribblers created the stories that comprised the style.
8 or more films
Cornell Woolrich (20)
Philip Yordan (14)
Sydney Boehm (12)
Ben Hecht (10)
Crane Wilbur (9)
W.R. Burnett (9)
William Bowers (9)
Steve Fisher (9)
Robert Rossen (9)
Pierre Boileau (8)
Ken Hughes (8)
Raymond Chandler (8)
James M. Cain (8)
5 to 7 films
Charles Spaak (7)
Seton I. Miller (7)
Daniel Mainwaring (7)
Andrew L. Stone (7)
Thomas Narcejac (7)
Jo Eisinger (7)
Michel Audiard (7)
Mel Dinelli (7)
Georges Simenon (7)
Daniel Fuchs (7)
Philip MacDonald (7)
Henri Decoin (7)
Frédéric Dard (7)
Graham Greene (7)
Dalton Trumbo (7)
Robert Thoeren (6)
Robert Westerby (6)
Charles Bennett (6)
Henri-Georges Clouzot (6)
Jonathan Latimer (6)
Harry Essex (6)
John Gilling (6)
David Goodis (5)
Auguste L. Breton (5)
Richard Brooks (5)
José Giovanni (5)
Albert Simonin (5)
Jimmy Sangster (5)
William P. McGivern (5)
Cesare Zavattini (5)
Martin Rackin (5)
Bertram Millhauser (5)
André Tabet (5)
Akira Kurosawa (5)
Julien Duvivier (5)
Eric Ambler (5)
Horace McCoy (5)
Luis Saslavsky (5)
Ben Maddow (5)
Honorable Mentions
Ernest Hemingway (4)
Émile Zola (4)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (3)
William Shakespeare (3)
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John C. Higgins (9)
Maxwell Shane (6)
Eugene Ling (6)
Lewis Meltzer (5)
Harry Kleiner (5)
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