Thomas Walsh

Thomas Walsh was born on Sep 19, 1908 in USA. Thomas Walsh's big-screen debut came with We're Only Human directed by James Flood in 1935. Thomas Walsh is known for Pushover directed by Richard Quine, Fred MacMurray stars as Paul Sheridan and Philip Carey as Rick McAllister. The most recent award Thomas Walsh achieved is Art Directors Guild. The upcoming new movie Thomas Walsh plays is Pushover which will be released on Aug 06, 1954.

Thomas Walsh was an author of suspense stories contemporaneous with Cornell Woolrich, but is much less remembered. He was born in New York City on September 19, 1908, the son of Thomas Walsh and Margaret Hefferine. He started writing for his high school paper and continued writing while he attended Columbia University, he later left Columbia mid term of his sophomore year and moved to Baltimore, where he took a job as a journalist for the Baltimore Sun, and for the U.S. Army Historical Branch, but by 1933 he retired from journalism and turned to writing short stories.His writing career began with writing short stories for several magazines, including Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Good Housekeeping & Woman's Home Companion. As a self-employed writer, Walsh published more than fifty short stories and eleven novels--each set in the streets of New York City and depicting various elements of the city's vital population.By 1950, he had published his first novel "Nightmare in Manhattan" for which he won the Edgar Allen Poe award for best first mystery. The novel was made into a movie called "Union Station" starring William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald and Nancy Olsen. Walsh's other novels include, "Night Watch", "Dark Window", "Dangerous Passenger", "The Action of the Tiger", and "The Eye of the Needle".Walsh died October 21, 1984, in Danbury, Connecticut.