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Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
July 24, 1909
Died
January 1, 1991 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Joe Eisinger
- Joseph Eisinger
- J. Eisinger
Jo Eisinger
Biography
Jo Eisinger (July 24, 1909 – January 1991) was a film and television writer whose career spanned more than 40 years from the early 1940s well into the 1980s. He is widely recognized as the writer of two of the most psychologically complex film noirs, Gilda (1946) and Night and the City (1950).
Known For
Writing

The Jigsaw Man
Screenplay
1983

Cold Sweat
Writer
1970

They Came to Rob Las Vegas
Dialogue, Screenplay
1968

The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Screenplay
1966

Danger Man
Writer
1960

Oscar Wilde
Screenplay, Producer
1960

The House of the Seven Hawks
Screenplay
1959

The Big Boodle
Screenplay
1957

Crime of Passion
Screenplay, Story
1956

The Sleeping City
Screenplay, Story
1950

Night and the City
Screenplay
1950

Gilda
Adaptation
1946