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Alain Silver is a US film producer, music producer, film reviewer, film historian, and writer on film topics, especially film noir and horror films.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Education 1.2 Film Production 1.3 Writing 2 External links 3 See also

Silver graduated from UCLA with degrees in film studies.

Silver began his production career working as assistant director on movies such as Every Which Way But Loose, The Manitou, and The Bad News Bears In Breaking Training and on television series such as Laverne And Shirley and Mork and Mindy. In 1981, Silver began working at the level of production manager and associate producer. Since 1987, Silver has been executive or supervising producer on a number of movies. Silver has also produced nine independent features, two documentaries, music videos, and segments for the TV reality series America’s Most Wanted and I, Survived.

Silver has given lectures on production and moderated panels for Directors Guild of America meetings and other forums. He has also produced a number of soundtrack albums for Citadel Records and Bay Cities Music. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Writers Guild of America, West.

Silver has written and edited over twenty books including L.A. Noir; Film Noir (for Taschen); The Noir Style; Film Noir Readers 1, 2. 3and 4; The Film Director's Team; Film Budgeting; The Vampire Film; Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles; The Samurai Film; Horror Film Reader; Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference; David Lean and his Films; What Ever Happened to Robert Aldrich; More Things than Are Dreamt Of; and Roger Corman: Metaphysics on a Shoestring. Silver also reviews films and writes film articles on topics such as Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe, film noir, and vampire films. He has provided commentary on DVD versions of a films, as part of the "extra" features often included with DVD releases of movies.

• Silver's homepage

• Film noir