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Daniel Mainwaring
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Screenwriter Born: February 27, 1902 in Oakland, CA Death: 1977 in California Biography:The name "Geoffrey Homes" has been affixed to some of Hollywood's most entertaining crime melodramas, actioners and murder mysteries. Not bad for a man who never really existed. Truth to tell, Geoffrey Homes was the pseudonym for novelist/screenwriter "Daniel Mainwaring". The son of a California forest ranger, Mainwaring began his writing career at the San Francisco Chronicle. After working as a publicist at Warner Bros., he secured a screenwriting job with Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit. Mainwaring's credits under the Geoffrey Homes anonym include the novel 40 Whacks, filmed by Warner's as "Crime by Night" in 1942, and the screenplays for such Pine-Thomas efforts as "No Hands on the Clock" (1944), "Scared Stiff" (1945), "Swamp Fire" (1946) and "Hot Cargo" (1946). Mainwaring/Homes also worked on RKO's "The Big Steal" (1949), MGM's "Tall Target" (1951) and UA's "A Bullet for Joey" (1955).... Full Biography
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