Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Edward Connell Jr. (October 17, 1893 – November 22, 1949) was an American author and journalist, probably best remembered for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game". Connell was one of the most popular American short story writers of his time and his stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly. He had equal success as a journalist and screenwriter and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1942 for best original story for t...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Most Dangerous Game
2022
Short Story
A father and son are shipwrecked on a remote island where they are caught up in a trophy hunt held by its mysterious owner, a merciless man who uses t...
Hounds of Zaroff
2016
Short Story
Rachel wakes up to discover she is trapped on an island and must survive while being hunted by the madman Zaroff, a Russian game hunter.

The Pest
1997
Short Story
Fast-talking Latino con artist Pestario "Pest" Vargas is the target of Scottish mobsters to whom he owes a considerable debt. Willing to do anything t...

Surviving the Game
1994
Short Story
A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who h...
Ex-Cop
1993
as Stony Danburg
Pete Danberg is a good cop with a drinking problem. When the new Sheriff fires him in an effort to clean up the image of the department, Danberg refus...

Deadly Prey
1987
Short Story
A group of sadistic mercenaries led by Col. John Hogan kidnap Michael Danton from his home, and set him loose on the grounds of their secret camp to b...

Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity
1987
Short Story
In the future, two slaves in a distant galaxy escape prison and crash-land on a strange planet. They meet Zed, whose hospitality attempts to hide the ...

The Perverse Countess
1975
Short Story
Two rich aristocrats lure a virgin to a remote Spanish island for a night of sex, death and cannibalism.

The Woman Hunt
1972
Short Story
A foreign correspondent is kidnapped and used for human prey.

The Suckers
1972
Short Story
A rich and powerful big-game hunter tires of tracking and killing animals, and gets an idea--he will invite the owners of a model agency he knows and ...

Confessions of a Psycho Cat
1968
Short Story
A deranged, wealthy woman offers $100,000 to three men if they can stay alive for 24 hours in Manhattan, and then hunts them down.

Bloodlust!
1961
Short Story
Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Ba...

Run for the Sun
1956
Story
Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, ...

Luxury Liner
1948
Screenplay
Capt. Jeremy Bradford has a particularly exciting luxury liner cruise in store when he's charged with transporting a troupe of opera singers to Rio de...

The Kid from Brooklyn
1946
Screenplay
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspaper...

A Game of Death
1945
Short Story
A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the madman hunts human prey for his personal island habi...

Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945
Writer
In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes ...

Thrill of a Romance
1945
Screenplay, Songs
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.

Two Girls and a Sailor
1944
Screenplay
A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also...

Presenting Lily Mars
1943
Screenplay
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

Rio Rita
1942
Screenplay
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

Meet John Doe
1941
Story, Short Story
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The p...

Nice Girl?
1941
Screenplay
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice gi...

Hired Wife
1940
Screenplay
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once t...

Brother Orchid
1940
Story
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himsel...

The Cowboy and the Lady
1938
Additional Writing
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off f...

Doctor Rhythm
1938
Screenplay
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.

Love on Toast
1937
Writer
The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr. Man...
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
1937
Original Story
A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive lace...

Our Relations
1936
Screenstory
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.

F-Man
1936
Story
Johnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual government agent is his pursuit of Public Enemy No. 1. Dimes a...

The Milky Way
1936
Screenplay
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in ...

The Most Dangerous Game
1932
Short Story
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive ...

Cheer Up and Smile
1930
Story
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especiall...

Dark Streets
1929
Story
Pat and Danny McGlone are identical twin brothers, rivals and competitors in everything they do, and Pat grows up and becomes a policeman while Danny ...

New Year's Eve
1929
Story
Taking place over 24 hours, "New Year's Eve" is the story of Marjorie Ware, broke and unemployed, who despairs as her ailing younger brother languishe...

No Place to Go
1927
Story
Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it.

Bright Lights
1925
Story
Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invention of his sells, he decides to take the money and...