Eddie Muller is a writer based in San Francisco and is a second-generation San Franciscan per his website. He is known for writing books about movies, particularly film noir. Founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, and co-programmer of the San Francisco Noir City film festival, Muller is considered a noir expert and is called on to write and talk about the film genre, notably on wry commentary tracks for Fox's film noir series of DVDs.Novelist James Ellroy has dubbed him "The Czar of Noir". Muller studied with filmmaker George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1970s.Muller is the son of a famed San Francisco boxing writer of the same name, whom he used as the basis for the character of Billy Nichols in his period crime novel The Distance, which was named the Best First Novel of 2002 by the Private Eye Writers of America. Billy Nichols returned in the 2003 novel Shadow Boxer.
Was a student of filmmaker George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1970s, where he created a 14 minute homage to Raymond Chandler called Bat City Blues. It became one of the 5 finalists for the 1979 Student Academy Awards.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Grand Inquisitor
2008
Short writer
Mau Mau Sex Sex
2001
Documentary writer
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Grand Inquisitor
2008
Short
Editor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mau Mau Sex Sex
2001
Documentary
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mau Mau Sex Sex
2001
Documentary co-producer
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Fuller Life
2013
Documentary special thanks
Yesterday Was a Lie
2008
thanks
Possessed: The Quintessential Film Noir
2005
Video documentary short special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Borsalino City
2016
Documentary
Himself - cinema critic
A Wild Ride: Restoring Woman on the Run
2016
Short
Himself
Chance of a Lifetime: The Making of Too Late for Tears
2016
Short
Himself
Love Is a Roller Coaster: Woman on the Run Revisited
2016
Short
Himself
Tiger Hunt: Restoring Too Late for Tears
2016
Short
Himself
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
2015
Documentary
Himself
Les couples mythiques du cinéma
2015
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015
Documentary
Himself
Los Angeles: Cité du Film Noir
2015
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Cost of Living: Creating the Prowler
2011
Video short
Himself
American Grindhouse
2010
Documentary
Himself - Film Historian
Czar of Noir, Eddie Muller Steps from the Shadows
2010
Video documentary
Himself
Killer Instincts: Richard Widmark and Ida Lupino at Twentieth Century Fox
2008
Video short
Himself
Turning of the Tide: The Ill-Starred Making of Moontide
2008
Video short
Himself
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006
Video documentary short
Himself
Shadows of Suspense
2006
Video documentary short
Himself
SexTV
2006
TV Series documentary
Himself
Possessed: The Quintessential Film Noir
2005
Video documentary short
Himself - Noir Novelist & Historian
Biography
2000
TV Series documentary
Himself
Known for movies
American Grindhouse (2010) as Himself - Film Historian
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird (2006) as Himself
$950,000
