Alistair MacLean Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Template:Multiple issuesAlistair Stuart MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 28 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories, the best known of which are perhaps The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, and Where Eagles Dare – all three having been made into popular films. He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart.
Film rights to his novel, Night Without End, were acquired by Paramount in 1959 for producers George Seaton and William Perlberg. Novelist Eric Ambler was hired to write the screenplay, while William Holden, Debbie Reynolds and Lilli Palmer were cast in lead roles. As late as 1961, the producers still planned location shoots in Scandinavia or Alaska, but the film was never made.
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Employed the pseudonym Ian Stuart several times in order to prove that his books were best-sellers due to their content and not solely because his name appeared on the cover.
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Buried a few yards from Richard Burton in Celigny, Switzerland.
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In the early 1980s, he was commissioned by an American film studio to write a series of story outlines to be subsequently produced as movies. MacLean compiled several stories about a fictitious United Nations crime-fighting organization, several of which were adapted as books by other authors. These include 'Death Train (1993) (TV)' and 'Night Watch (1995) (TV)' (both written by Alistair MacNeill) which were filmed starring Pierce Brosnan.
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His wife Mary Marcelle Maclean was a former actress who started two production companies: "Alcelle Productions Limited" and "MMM Prodcutions Ltd."
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After MacLean's death, author Alistair MacNeill managed to continue writing suspense novels in the MacLean tradition by keeping MacLean's name on the cover.
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He wrote many best-selling action novels that were turned into often successful movies. When asked to comment on why his stories were so popular he remarked that he always wrote stories that were visual. Since they were easy to imagine when the books were read, they were easy to film.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Way to Dusty Death
1996
TV Movie novel
Detonator II: Night Watch
1995
TV Movie story
River of Death
1989
novel "River of Death"
The Hostage Tower
1980
TV Movie novel / story
Bear Island
1979
based on the novel by
Force 10 from Navarone
1978
novel
Golden Rendezvous
1977
novel "The Golden Rendezvous" - uncredited
Breakheart Pass
1975
novel / screenplay
Caravan to Vaccares
1974
novel
Fear Is the Key
1972
novel
Puppet on a Chain
1971
novel - uncredited / screenplay - as Alistair Maclean
When Eight Bells Toll
1971
novel - uncredited / screenplay - as Alistair Maclean
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