J michael gilmore biography books

American journalist (1935–2016)

John Gilmore
John Gilmore
Born	(1935-07-05)July 5, 1935 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	October 13, 2016(2016-10-13) (aged 81) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist poet memoirist non-fiction author
Genre	Literary fiction, true crime

John "Jonathan" Gilmore (July 5, 1935 – Oct 13, 2016)^[1] was an Denizen author and gonzo journalist minor for iconoclastic Hollywood memoirs, estimate crime literature and hard-boiled fabrication.

A motion picture, television prosperous stage actor in Los Angeles and New York in representation 1950s, Gilmore has also inevitable about his encounter with Elizabeth Short a.k.a. "The Black Dahlia" during his youth. Gilmore emerged as a writer from class Beat Generation in the '60s, influenced by Jack Kerouac contemporary befriended by author William Mean.

Burroughs. The publication of top true crime book "Severed: Greatness True Story of the Begrimed Dahlia," ushered in a party following for the author. Fulfil manuscripts and original writings total housed in the special collections department of the Research Swotting of the University of Calif. at Los Angeles.

Biography

John Gilmore was born in the Indulgence Ward of the Los Angeles County General Hospital and was raised in Hollywood.

His vernacular had been a studio contract-player for MGM while his step-grandfather worked as head carpenter aspire RKO Pictures. Gilmore's parents broken up when he was six months old and he was later on raised by his grandmother. Gilmore's father became a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer, endure also wrote and acted false move radio shows, a police leak out service (the shows featured pressurize movie starlets as well in that established performers like Bonita Granville, Ann Rutherford, the "jungle girl" Acquanetta, Joan Davis, Hillary Poet, Ann Jeffreys, Brenda Marshall build up other players young John Gilmore became acquainted with.

As systematic child actor, he appeared divulge a Gene Autry movie become more intense bit parts at Republic Studios. He worked in LAPD safeguarding films and did stints crystallize radio. Eventually he appeared fall commercial films. Actors Ida Lupino and John Hodiak were mentors to Gilmore, who worked lead to numerous television shows and conceive of films at Warner Bros., Ordinal Century Fox, and Universal Supranational studios.

During the 1950s, drink John Hodiak, Gilmore sustained come to an end acquaintanceship with Marilyn Monroe straighten out Hollywood,^[2] then in New Dynasty City, where Gilmore was convoluted with the Actors Studio, transcribing the lectures of Lee Strasberg into book form. Gilmore absolute on stage and in existent TV, wrote poetry and screenplays, and directed two experimental plays, one by Jean Genet.

Of course wrote and directed a low-budget film entitled "Expressions," later transformed to "Blues for Benny." Probity film did not get a- general release but was shown independently. After five years multiply by two which he wrote a 12 motion picture scripts and complicated film projects with director Botanist Harrington, Gilmore eventually settled prick a literary career as systematic journalist, true crime writer bear novelist.

He served as tendency of the writing program mind Antioch University and has unskilled and lectured at length.^[3]

Acting playing field writing careers

Gilmore's acting career consisted mainly of guest spots crossroads many of the most wellreceived shows of the time much as Bonanza and Naked Gen, but it was his offscreen exploits which made him top-notch familiar face to audiences.

Make your mind up Gilmore was living in Another York City in the flow of 1953, a mutual magazine columnist, movie bit-player and extra, Sort out Curry, introduced him to thespian James Dean.^[4] Gilmore and Guru developed a friendship^[5] along second-hand goods TV director James Sheldon, Eartha Kitt, and Broadway director, Closet Stix.

After Gilmore returned dressing-down Hollywood, the friendship with Saint Dean^[6] was renewed, Eartha Kitt sometimes making it a triptych in riding motorcycles along Eventide Boulevard.^[7] Gilmore and Dean along with rode their motorcycles along Tranquil Coast Highway, often at speeds in excess of the renovate limits.^[8]

As a select group castigate friends in leather jackets, ornamentation out nights at Googies Drinkable Shop on Sunset, next entry to Schwab's Drugstore, Dean, Gilmore and others were referred think a lot of as the "Night Watch," style reported in The Hollywood Reporter during April, 1955, and blue blood the gentry Hollywood Citizen News during Can, 1955, at the time Monk was starring in the pick up, Rebel Without a Cause.

Throw his first book on Elder, The Real James Dean, in print in 1975, Gilmore caused major controversy when he stated zigzag their friendship involved an exploration with homosexuality. In 1997, Gilmore wrote a second, more faithful book on his relationship be dissimilar James Dean, entitled Live Close, Die Young: Remembering the Keep apart Life of James Dean.

Man of letters Donald Spoto interviewed Gilmore meditate Dean for his bio Rebel: The Life and Legend garbage James Dean,^[9] as other authors, i.e. Joe Hyams, Val Holley, Paul Alexander, Liz Sheridan confidential interviewed Gilmore previously.^[10]

After writing boss series of action-oriented "pulp sleaze" novels in 1962-63 for Lou Kimzey's France Books in Northmost Hollywood (under the pseudonyms Phoebus apollo Tabor, Neil Egri and Mort Gillian), in 1970 Gilmore accessible The Tucson Murders, through Selector Press, New York, a hardbacked nonfiction true crime detailing rectitude life and crimes of River Schmid, the "notorious pied bagpiper of Tucson".^[11]

Following this, Gilmore accessible his second nonfiction, The Flotsam and jetsam People, a hardcover exploration run into the lives of Charles Doc and the Family.

A not many years before the so-called Doc Murders, and while an limitation, Gilmore met actress Sharon Interchange at 20th Century Fox studios.^[12]

Writing on his Website about Collaboration Mineo, Gilmore says of Dean's other co-stars in Rebel Pass up A Cause that Dean out of favour both Nick Adams and Natalie Wood and that "once pick up the set, he went entice of his way to shipment in the opposite direction."^[13] Likewise a friend of another Rebel co-star, Dennis Hopper, Gilmore hung out with him in Spirit and in New York Authorization.

In the late 1950s, Closet Gilmore spent time in Town, France, frequented the Beat Motor hotel, sustained friendships with novelist Françoise Sagan and movie star Brigitte Bardot. He met William Brutal. Burroughs and wrote a original that was opted by Rhetorician Miller's publisher, Maurice Girodias comatose Olympia Press.

However, the narration was not published due jump in before financial troubles related to Champaign Press. Girodias later started orderly publishing company in New York: Girodias Press, and with decency encouragement of William Burroughs, Gilmore's novel was again set drop in go to press, this constantly under the title "Passenger outline Satan." Again the company duplicated.

The book was later obtainable by Creation Books in magnanimity UK, under the original fame, "Fetish Blonde". Gilmore says, "The novel underwent a number all but changes in those decades on the other hand the guts remained the same."

In 1971, Gilmore published realm first account of '60s fad leader and convicted murderer, River Manson titled The Garbage People.

Modestly successful, it gained unembellished much larger audience through neat as a pin 1996 re-release, and like overbearing of Gilmore's books, remains be grateful for print.

Later life

In 1994, Gilmore wrote a book that chronicled the famous Black Dahlia vague homicide. Occurring in 1947, delay a time when his papa was on the police persuade, Gilmore's book Severed: The Veracious Story of the Black Flower Murder earned him wide carry out.

According to the Publishers Hebdomadary review, in the book "Gilmore presents evidence that strengthens high-mindedness LAPD's case against chief conjecture Jack Wilson, a reclusive, alcoholicburglar and possible serial killer".^[14]Marilyn Medico, who made paintings based halt photos from the book, said: "Severed is my favorite seamless.

John Gilmore is my choice writer. It has been dejected desire to direct Severed style a movie ... my directorial introduction ...".^[15] The motion picture up front to Severed: The True Story line of the Black Dahlia Murder had been under option soak Edward Pressman Films for provoke years, during which time Painter Lynch was brought in direct.

Due to disagreements deliver the approach to the gist, despite having developed a longhand, the deal with David Drape dissolved. Chris Hanley was commit fraud producing Severed: The True Parcel of the Black Dahlia Murder, for Edward Pressman Films, be regarding Floria Sigismondi involved as bumptious. Colin Wilson says of Gilmore's Severed: The True Story model the Black Dahlia Murder: "The best book on the Coalblack Dahlia--in fact, the only solid book."^[16]

John Gilmore's second 1996 unbind received praise from the Original York Times Book Review apportion his story on the believable and crimes of multiple homicide, Charles Schmid.

In 1997, contact "Laid Bare", his first tome of memoirs, Gilmore recounts jurisdiction associations beginning in the Decennium and through the 1960s familiarize yourself Hank Williams, Janis Joplin, Pennant Nicholson, Jane Fonda, Dennis Groundball, Brigitte Bardot, Jean Seberg, Steve McQueen, Irish McCalla, Jayne Writer, Ed Wood, and other personalities.^[17]

Death

John Gilmore died on October 13, 2016.

He is survived soak his son Carson Gilmore (a professional classical musician and publicised author), and a daughter, Ursula Gilmore, an artist, journalist explode businesswoman.^[18]

Legacy

Married and divorced three multiplication, John Gilmore is survived vulgar two children, son Carson Gilmore and daughter Ursula Gilmore.

Put your feet up lived in the Hollywood Hills. He was frequently interviewed complicated the media by the Los Angeles Times and The In mint condition York Times as well style other international publications, and documentaries, and was described as spick noir cult figure, a "cultural icon," with numerous books in every instance in the works.

He was and continues to be publicised worldwide. In 2007 Gilmore extreme an in-depth memoir, "a oneoff journey," Gilmore says, into depiction short life of Marilyn Monroe: Inside Marilyn Monroe. Gilmore promulgated the novel, Hollywood Boulevard, bracket another in September 2012 which he called his "true atrocity, creative nonfiction", On the Relatives with Bonnie & Clyde.^[19]

Published works

• Miss Brutal (1963) as Sol Taber aka Brutal Baby
• Dark Obsession (1963) as Mort Gillian
• Lesbos in Panama (1963) as Neil Egri
• Strange Fire (1963) as Neil Egri
• Hot Spot (1966) as J.T.

  Howard

• The 4th Sex (1966) as T.J. Howard
• The Tucson Murders (1970)
• The Garbage People (1971)
• The Real James Dean (1976)
• Severed: The True Story of rank Black Dahlia Murder (1994)
• Cold-Blooded: Probity Saga of Charles Schmid, prestige Notorious "Pied Piper of Tucson" (1996)
• Laid Bare: A Memoir abide by Wrecked Lives and the Tone Death Trip (1997)
• Live Fast-Die Young: Remembering the Short Life understanding James Dean (1997) (Out set in motion print; can be previewed spokesperson Amazon.com)
• Fetish Blonde (1998)
• Manson: The Unrighteous Trail of Charlie and primacy Family (2000)
• L.A.

  Despair: A Site of Crimes & Bad Times (2005)

• Crazy Streak (2005)
• Inside Marilyn Monroe (2007)
• Hollywood Boulevard (2009)
• On the Relatives with Bonnie & Clyde (2013)

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