Clyde Beatty, Marian Carr and Mickey Spillane in Ring of Fear (1954)
Caption: Clyde Beatty, Marian Carr and Mickey Spillane in Ring of Fear (1954)
Writer, Actor
Born: March 9, 1918
Star sign: Pisces
Known for: Mike Hammer (1958), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The New Mike Hammer (1984), Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997)
Source: IMDB
Mickey Spillane, the king of the pulp novelists in the post-WW II period, sold an estimated 200 million copies globally. He was born Frank Morrison Spillane in Brooklyn, NY. Young Frank's mother was a Protestant who bestowed on him his middle name "Morrison", but his Irish Catholic father, barkeep John Joseph Spillane, allegedly had his son ...