Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes ProCon History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture Money Videos
Phil Karlson
Table of Contents
References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Images
The Phenix City Story
Related Questions
Read Next
Bag end on Bagshot row from the movies Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in Hobbiton, New Zealand, Australia
You Ought to Be in Pictures: 8 Filming Locations You Can Actually Visit
Tom Cruise as Maverick in Top Gun(1986) directed by Tony Scott.
Can You Guess the Movie by the Scene?
Discover
Super Typhoon Noru over the western tropical Pacific Ocean as observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA Aqua satellite July 31 2017
What Is the Difference Between a Typhoon and a Super Typhoon?
The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Alice in Wonderland)
11 Banned Books Through Time
Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that
America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)
A human Inuit skull in a stone chambered cairn in Ilulissat in Greenland. These ancient graves are pre christian and are at least 2000
14 Tough Questions Answered
Thanksgiving Turkey with all the sides
Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?
Diverse elementary school children wearing school uniforms running outside of school. Boys girls
Pro and Con: School Uniforms
Title: Senate Square, St. Petersburg, December 14, 1825: repression of the troop mutiny - watercolor by Carl Ivanovitch Kollman, 1825 depicts Decembrist uprising clashing with cavalry, with spectators watching. (new style December 26, 1825) Europe. Saint
8 of the Largest Empires in History

Phil Karlson: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Phil-Karlson
Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As Philip N. Karlstein
Born July 2, 1908 • Chicago • Illinois
Died December 12, 1985 (aged 77) • Los Angeles • California
Notable Works “99 River Street” • “Framed” • “Gunman’s Walk” • “Hell to Eternity” • “Kansas City Confidential” • “Kid Galahad” • “Rampage” • “Scandal Sheet” • “Secret Ways, The” • “The Brothers Rico” • “The Phenix City Story” • “The Silencers” • “The Young Doctors” • “Tight Spot” • “Walking Tall”

Photos

The Phenix City Story
See All Images →
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder
American director and producer
Anthony Mann
American director
Edward Dmytryk
American film director
Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford in Gilda
Charles Vidor
American director
Anatole Litvak
Ukrainian-born director
lobby card for The Comedy of Terrors
Jacques Tourneur
French-American director
How the West Was Won
Henry Hathaway
American director
Jules Dassin
Jules Dassin
American film director
Stuart Heisler
American director and editor
Joseph H. Lewis
American director
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Henry Levin
American director
Negulesco, Jean
Jean Negulesco
Romanian-born artist and director
Robert Siodmak
German director
Harold Ramis
American actor, writer, and director
David Maysles
American documentary filmmaker
Joel Coen
American filmmaker
Michael Cimino
American director
Ethan Coen
American filmmaker
Jesse Lasky
American producer
Judith Malina
American theater director and actress