Joseph Stefano

Joseph Stefano

additional crew, writer, producer

Joseph Stefano was born on May 05, 1922 in USA. Joseph Stefano's big-screen debut came with Fast and Sexy directed by Reginald Denham in 1958. Joseph Stefano is known for A Death of Innocence directed by Paul Wendkos, Shelley Winters stars as Elizabeth Cameron and Arthur Kennedy as Mark Hirsch. Joseph Stefano has got 2 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Joseph Stefano achieved is Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA. The upcoming new movie Joseph Stefano plays is Psycho which will be released on Dec 04, 1998.

Creative horror screenwriter Joseph Stefano has been writing scripts since the early sixties. His first was L'orchidée noire (1958). Less than a year later, he met his new friend, Alfred Hitchcock, to do the famous script for Psychose (1960). Stefano decided to drop the assignment for Hitchcock's Les Oiseaux (1963). Stefano later wrote a screenplay for Les Griffes de la peur (1969) and, by the early 1970s, he did numerous made for TV screenplays including Revenge! (1971), Reveillon en famille (1972) and Snowbeast (1977). When the 1980s came around, Stefano had no great intention to write any more scripts, and he was discouraged when Alfred Hitchcock died in 1980. It wasn't until the early 1990s that he wrote the script for the last sequel in the Psycho series (he dropped the other scripts for II and III) - Psychose IV (1990). Stefano has won many awards for his writing.

  • Birthday

    May 05, 1922
  • Place of Birth

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Known For

Awards

2 wins & 2 nominations

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
1987
Winner - President's Award
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
1961
Best Motion Picture
Winner - Edgar