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name: "Dashiell Hammett"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dashiell-hammett"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "27 May 1894"
died: "10 January 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-20T01:10:59.405403+00:00"
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# Dashiell Hammett

Writer. Born 27 May 1894 in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, USA. Died 10 January 1961.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 27 May 1894, Saint Mary's County, Maryland, USA
- **Died:** 10 January 1961
- **Active:** 1934–1943
- **Also known as:** Дэшил Хэммет, Сэмюэл Дэшилл Хэммет, Samuel Dashiell Hammett
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 84 (1), 1940s 80 (2)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Crime 2, Mystery 2, Thriller 2, Comedy 1, Drama 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $3m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiell_Hammett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186335, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0358591/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5165

## Biography

Dashiell Hammett was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was born Samuel Dashiell Hammett on 27 May 1894 in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, and died on 10 January 1961.

His novels were adapted into the films *The Maltese Falcon* (1941) and *The Thin Man* (1934). He also wrote the screenplay for *Watch on the Rhine* (1943). Hammett created characters including private detective Sam Spade and the couple Nick and Nora Charles.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Watch on the Rhine* (1943), Fi1m 73, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/watch-on-the-rhine.md)
- *The Maltese Falcon* (1941), Fi1m 87, Novel — [page](https://film.one/film/the-maltese-falcon.md)
- *The Thin Man* (1934), Fi1m 84, Novel — [page](https://film.one/film/the-thin-man.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Monsieur Spade* (2024), series, Characters
- *Let Sleeping Guns Lie* (2005), Thanks
- *No Good Deed* (2002), Novel
- *Fallen Angels* (1993), series, Story
- *The Gang* (1986), Adaptation
- *The Case of Dashiell Hammett* (1982), Actor
- *The Wizard of Malta* (1981), Novel
- *The Crimson Night of the Hawk* (1978), Novel
- *The Dain Curse* (1978), series, Novel
- *The Black Bird* (1975), Characters
- *Nick and Nora* (1975), Characters
- *Studio One* (1948), series, Writer
- *Song of the Thin Man* (1947), Characters
- *Secret Agent X-9* (1945), Characters
- *The Thin Man Goes Home* (1944), Characters
- *Watch on the Rhine* (1943), Screenplay — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/watch-on-the-rhine.md)
- *The Glass Key* (1942), Novel
- *Shadow of the Thin Man* (1941), Characters
- *The Maltese Falcon* (1941), Novel — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-maltese-falcon.md)
- *Another Thin Man* (1939), Story
- *Secret Agent X-9* (1937), Characters
- *After the Thin Man* (1936), Story
- *Satan Met a Lady* (1936), Novel
- *The Glass Key* (1935), Novel
- *Mister Dynamite* (1935), Story
- *Woman in the Dark* (1934), Short Story
- *The Thin Man* (1934), Novel — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-thin-man.md)
- *The Maltese Falcon* (1931), Novel
- *City Streets* (1931), Story
- *Roadhouse Nights* (1930), Novel

## Gallery

- ![Dashiell Hammett](https://film.one/media/person/155705/gallery-d028cbeb09f5.jpg) Dashiell Hammett — Photographer unattributed; published by Knopf, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Dashiell_Hammett_%22Thin_Man%22_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![New York, Ny: Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) Alpheus Hinton, Abner Green, Fredrick Vanderbilt Field, and unidentified U.S. Marshall. (1951)](https://film.one/media/person/155705/gallery-f048c0f5fbeb.jpg) New York, Ny: Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) Alpheus Hinton, Abner Green, Fredrick Vanderbilt Field, and unidentified U.S. Marshall. (1951) — Unknown, dedicated to Bettmann Archive, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Fredrick_Vanderbilt%2C_Aabner_Green%2C_Etc._1951.jpg/1280px-Fredrick_Vanderbilt%2C_Aabner_Green%2C_Etc._1951.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![New York, Ny: Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) Alpheus Hinton, Abner Green, Fredrick Vanderbilt Field, and unidentified U.S. Marshall. (1951)](https://film.one/media/person/155705/gallery-32d9f91b7d5d.jpg) New York, Ny: Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) Alpheus Hinton, Abner Green, Fredrick Vanderbilt Field, and unidentified U.S. Marshall. (1951) — Unknown, dedicated to Bettmann Archive, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Fredrick_Vanderbilt%2C_Aabner_Green%2C_Etc._1951_B%26W.jpg/1280px-Fredrick_Vanderbilt%2C_Aabner_Green%2C_Etc._1951_B%26W.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![John's Grill plaque - San Francisco, California, USA. This plaque commemorates John's Grill, the site where Dashiell Hammett wrote "The Maltese Falcon". (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/155705/gallery-520e32b39898.jpg) John's Grill plaque - San Francisco, California, USA. This plaque commemorates John's Grill, the site where Dashiell Hammett wrote "The Maltese Falcon". (2014) — Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/John%27s_Grill_plaque_-_San_Francisco%2C_CA_-_DSC03497.JPG/1280px-John%27s_Grill_plaque_-_San_Francisco%2C_CA_-_DSC03497.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dashiell Hammett](https://film.one/media/person/155705/gallery-ac2d8a5105ea.jpg) Dashiell Hammett — Image via TMDB
- ![Formerly the Hotel Kenmore, where novelist Nathanael West was the night clerk; he let his literary friends sleep over for free, including Dashiell Hammett, who  (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/155705/gallery-deebf75c78ba.jpg) Formerly the Hotel Kenmore, where novelist Nathanael West was the night clerk; he let his literary friends sleep over for free, including Dashiell Hammett, who  (2009) — Eden, Janine and Jim from New York City, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Kenmore_Hall_%284117429114%29.jpg/1280px-Kenmore_Hall_%284117429114%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1944: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Watch on the Rhine*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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