I have been unable to identify any books or stories that he wrote, which suggests that all of his writing was done for the large or small screen. Other than a single teleplay in 1967, Cavanagh had no more credits and died in Los Angeles in 1971. In 1960, he became the associate producer and story editor for the first eight episodes of Thriller, and he also wrote the script for the first episode to air, "The Twisted Image." After leaving the team making Thriller, Cavanagh wrote a few more teleplays and was nominated for an Edgar Award for his screenplay for Murder at the Gallop (1963), which he adapted from an Agatha Christie novel. Hitchcock was not happy with the script, however, and fired Cavanagh on July 27th, but the author continued to write for the director's television show. Cavanagh flew from Paris to Hollywood on June 10th and began work on the screenplay, which still survives. On June 8, 1959, at the recommendation of Joan Harrison, Hitchcock hired Cavanagh to adapt Robert Bloch's novel, Psycho, for the screen. He won an Emmy for the 1956 episode, "Fog Closing In." Starting in 1956, Cavanagh became a frequent writer for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, scripting 15 teleplays over the next 6 years. Cavanagh wrote nine episodes of Climax in 1955-57 and adapted Cornell Woolrich's Rendezvous in Black for Playhouse 90 in 1956. His first writing credit was as one of three writers on the 1951 crime drama, The Family Secret the other two writers were Francis Cockrell and Andrew Solt, both of whom would later write teleplays for Alfred Hitchcock Presents.īorn in New York City, Cavanagh spent the 1950s and 1960s writing mostly for TV, penning 15 episodes of Suspense in 1953-54 and adapting Daphne Du Maurier's story, "The Birds," for the series, Danger, in 1955, nearly a decade before Hitchcock would film the same tale. Cavanagh (1922-1971) was a writer whose flame burned brightly but burned out early when he died at the young age of 49.
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