Ben Maddow

screenwriter and filmmaker (1909-1992)

Benjamin David Maddow was an American screenwriter, documentarian, and poet, whose career spanned the 1930s to 1970s. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on The Asphalt Jungle (1950), and shared a BAFTA Award for Best Documentary for co-directing the documentary The Savage Eye (1960).

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 8 films (1937–1967) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 10 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▼ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1967 The Way West Collectors Book Store 1:23 16mm Color
1963 An affair of the skin written and directed by Ben Maddow. 142 16mm B&W sound
1961 Two Loves. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. & Julian Blaustein Productions Inc. 96 min 35mm Color sound
1959 The Savage Eye. City Film Corp. 35mm B&W sound
1954 The Wild One Columbia Picture Corp 79 min 16mm B&W sound
1950 The Asphalt Jungle Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp 1:52:00 16mm B&W sound
1938 People Of The Cumberland STEBBINS (ROBERT) AND EUGENE HILL 16mm B&W sound
1937 People of the Cumberland. Sidney Meyers, Elia Kazan, Jay Leyda 16mm B&W sound