Eddie Muller

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Eddie Muller
Eddie Muller in 2006
Born	(1958-10-15) October 15, 1958 (age 65)[1] San Francisco, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	San Francisco Art Institute
Genre	non-fiction

Eddie Muller (born October 15, 1958) is an American writer based in San Francisco. He is known for his books about movies, particularly film noir, and is the host of Noir Alley on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).^[2]

Muller is the son of famous San Francisco boxing writer Eddie Muller.

Muller studied with filmmaker George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1970s.

Muller is the founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation and is co-programmer of the San Francisco Noir City film festival. Muller is considered a film noir expert and is called on to write and talk about the genre, notably on wry commentary tracks for Fox's series of film noir DVDs and introducing Turner Classic Movies's weekly Saturday night "Noir Alley" movie feature.

Laura Sheppard, director of events at Mechanics' Institute in San Francisco, dubbed him "The Czar of Noir"^{[citation needed]} The quote is often misattributed to the novelist James Ellroy^{[citation needed]}.

Muller based the character of Billy Nichols in his period crime novel The Distance after his father. The novel was named the Best First Novel of 2002 by the Private Eye Writers of America. 'Nichols' returned in the 2003 novel Shadow Boxer.

Muller married Kathleen Marie Milne^[3]

• (with Daniel Faris) Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of "Adults Only" Cinema (1996); ISBN 0-312-14609-4
• Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (1998); ISBN 0-312-18076-4
• Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir (2001); ISBN 0-06-039369-6
• The Art Of Noir: The Posters & Graphics From The Classical Era Of Film Noir (2004); ISBN 1-58567-603-9
• (with Tab Hunter) Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star (2005); ISBN 1-56512-548-7
• Gun Crazy: The Origin of American Outlaw Cinema (2014); ISBN 978-0-692-26026-5
• Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition) (2021); ISBN 9780762498970

• The Distance (2002); ISBN 0-7432-1443-9
• Shadow Boxer (2003); ISBN 0-7432-1444-7

• Official web site
• Film Noir Foundation
• Eddie Muller at IMDb
• Interview with Matthew Sorrento at Bright Lights Film Journal
• Interview with Rudy Cecera for Screen Comment