Novelist/scripter/director Charles Marquis Warren was a regular contributor to The Saturday Evening Post almost before the ink on his Baltimore City College diploma was dry. A friend and protégé of jazz-age novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, Warren acted as Fitzgerald's agent in the latter's final years. After serving as a naval officer in World War II, Warren gained a foothold in Hollywood as one of America's foremost experts on western lore (though his first scripting assignment was the contemporary court-martial drama Beyond Glory[1948]). Many of his western novels were adapted for the screen, beginning with Only the Valiant (1951). Warren was given his first opportunity to direct with 1951's Little Big Horn, a low-budget precursor to the adult-oriented, psychological westerns which proliferated during the next twenty years. Of his many subsequent directorial assignments, Blood Arrow (1958) is of special interest, inasmuch as many of its story elements were expanded upon in the Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves (1990). A prolific tiller of the TV-western field, Warren wrote and directed the pilot episode for the long-running series Gunsmoke (1955-75); he went on to create and produce the 1958 Eric Fleming-Clint Eastwood weekly Rawhide, and acted as executive producer of The Virginian, television's first 90-minute western. In recognition of his wartime service, Charles Marquis Warren is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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C.A.B.
Executive Producer |
1986 | |||
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Charro!
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1969 | |||
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Day of the Evil Gun
Screen Story, Screenwriter |
1968 | |||
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The Meanest Men in the West
Producer |
1966 | |||
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Blood Arrow
Director |
1958 | |||
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Cattle Empire
Director |
1958 | |||
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Desert Hell
Director, Screenwriter |
1958 | |||
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Back from the Dead
Director |
1957 | |||
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Copper Sky
Director |
1957 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Season 03
Producer |
1957 | |||
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Ride a Violent Mile
Director |
1957 | |||
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The Unknown Terror
Director |
1957 | |||
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Trooper Hook
Director, Screenwriter |
1957 | |||
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Gunsmoke: 20-20
Director |
1956 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Big Broad
Director |
1956 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Hack Prine
Director |
1956 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Helping Hands
Director |
1956 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Indian Scout
Director |
1956 | |||
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Gunsmoke: No Handcuffs
Director |
1956 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Professor Lute Bone
Director |
1956 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Reunion 78
Director |
1956 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Reward for Matt
Director |
1956 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Robin Hood
Director |
1956 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Season 02
Producer |
1956 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Tap Day for Kitty
Director |
1956 | |||
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Gunsmoke: The Pest Hole
Director |
1956 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Yorky
Director |
1956 | |||
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Tension at Table Rock
Director |
1956 | |||
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The Black Whip
Director |
1956 | |||
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Gunsmoke: General Parcley Smith
Director |
1955 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Home Surgery
Director, Screenwriter |
1955 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Hot Spell
Director |
1955 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Kite's Reward
Director, Screenwriter |
1955 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Magnus
Director |
1955 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Matt Gets It
Director, Screenwriter |
1955 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Night Visitor
Director, Screenwriter |
1955 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Obie Tater
Director, Screenwriter |
1955 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Reed Survives
Director |
1955 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Season 01
Producer |
1955 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Smoking Out the Nolans
Director |
1955 | |||
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Gunsmoke: The Hunter
Director |
1955 | |||
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Gunsmoke: The Queue
Director |
1955 | |||
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Gunsmoke: Word of Honor
Director, Screenwriter |
1955 | |||
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Seven Angry Men
Director |
1955 | |||
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Arrowhead
Director, Screenwriter |
1953 | |||
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Flight to Tangier
Director, Screenwriter |
1953 | |||
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The Pony Express
Screenwriter |
1953 | |||
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Hellgate
Director, Screenwriter |
1952 | |||
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Springfield Rifle
Screenwriter |
1952 | |||
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Woman of the North Country
Short Story Author |
1952 | |||
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Fighting Coast Guard
Short Story Author |
1951 | |||
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Little Big Horn
Director, Screenwriter |
1951 | |||
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Oh! Susanna
Screenwriter |
1951 | |||
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Only the Valiant
Book Author |
1950 | |||
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Red Desert
Director |
1950 | |||
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The Redhead and the Cowboy
Short Story Author |
1950 | |||
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Streets of Laredo
Screenwriter |
1949 | |||
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Beyond Glory
Screenwriter |
1948 |