Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ernest Tidyman (January 1, 1928 - July 14, 1984) was a Cleveland-born American author and screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. He also co-wrote the screenplay for the film version of Shaft with John D.F. Black in 1971. His screenplay for The French Connection garnered him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as a Golden Globe Award, a Writers Guild of America Award, and an Edgar Awar...
Complete Filmography
Shaft
2019
Novel
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he ne...
Shaft
2000
Novel
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail...
Stark: Mirror Image
1986
Characters
Sequel to the original movie about a hard-boiled Kansas City cop finds him tracking a colleague's killer to Las Vegas.
Brotherly Love
1985
Teleplay
A businessman is stalked by his murderous twin brother, who has just been released from a mental hospital.
Stark
1985
Screenplay
Wichita policeman, Evan Stark, goes to Las Vegas in search of his missing sister, Laura.
Last Plane Out
1983
Writer
An American journalist covering the civil war in Nicaragua falls in love with a beautiful Sandinista rebel.
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980
Teleplay, Co-Producer
Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "T...
Power
1980
Writer
Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leade...
A Force of One
1979
Screenplay, Story
Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the mar...
Dummy
1979
Writer, Producer
The real-life account of an illiterate, deaf-and-mute, black youth who was accused of murdering a prostitute, and the relationship that developed betw...
To Kill a Cop
1978
Writer
Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are o...
Street People
1976
Dialogue, Writer
A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian law...
Report to the Commissioner
1975
Screenplay
Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instr...
Shaft in Africa
1973
Characters
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
High Plains Drifter
1973
Writer
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the ...
Shaft's Big Score!
1972
Producer, Writer
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
The French Connection
1971
Screenplay
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
Shaft
1971
Novel, Screenplay, Executive Producer
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.