About Ferguson Findley
Lived 1910 – 1963 (aged 52–53). Ferguson Findley was an American novelist.
Ferguson Findley (1910–1963) was the pen name of Charles Weiser Frey, an American novelist from Pennsylvania. He wrote several minor crime novels in the 1950s, the most successful of which, Waterfront, was adapted into the film The Mob in 1951.
Novels My Old Man’s Badge (also published as: Killer Cop) (1950) Hire This Killer (1951) Waterfront (UK Title: Remember That Face!) (1951) The Man in the Middle (UK Title: A Handful of Murder) (also published as: Dead Ringer) (1952) Counterfeit Corpse (1956) Murder Makes Me Mad (1956)
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Who was Ferguson Findley?
American novelist
When was Ferguson Findley born?
Ferguson Findley was born in 1910 in York.
When did Ferguson Findley die?
Ferguson Findley died in 1963 in Redding.
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Ferguson Findley was a novelist.
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Ferguson Findley was American.
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