Edward Bunker

Edward Bunker was born as Edward Heward Bunker on December 31, 1933, in California, USA. He was famous for his work in the fields of acting and writing, known for his works in Reservoir Dogs (1992), Runaway Train (1985) and Animal Factory (2000). His genre of writing was crime fiction, and he also worked as a screenwriter in movies like Straight Time (1978). He died at the age of 71 on July 19, 2005, in Burbank, California, USA. Edward was born to, a chorus girl Sarah from Vancouver and a behind the scene worker, Edward N. Bunker on the New Year’s Eve 1933. He didn’t have proper memories of his parents, who got divorced when he was five. Meanwhile, Bunker was sheltered in a foster home. His mental conditions and unstable social conditions persuaded him to take up the criminal lane, which he followed for quite a long span of his life, aborting which he later took up to writing and acting. His criminal debut was while he was attending a military school, where peer pressure forced him to opt for stealing. Even though he had been kept under strict disciplines, his discontent nature made him run away and then he landed in a hobo camp. He followed his criminal string and as a result of his crimes he had been presented as a juvenile in the respective court of law.

There he met the senior criminals, and eventually his fears got away, and he gained confidence in this particular profession having an upper hand over others because of his intelligence and literacy. Having crossed all limits and as a result of parole violation, he was sent to the prison at the age of sixteen, instead of sending him to reform or disciplinary school the above-stated decision was taken. Successive imprisonment led him to commit more crimes proudly and ended him to become a fearless criminal. Bunker had been imprisoned once in the jail of San Quentin State Prison where he encountered Caryl Chessman, who was working on his typewriter. Bunker had met Chessman earlier, but this meeting served him as an inspiration to take up writing as a leisure work. After that, Bunker enlightened his literacy and took to writing in 1951. Louise Fazenda and Hal B. Wallis were two of Bunker’s friends with whom he managed to keep contacts arranged a typewriter for bunker’s career as an author.

They were the helping hands in his career who helped to take the first step. For several years, he managed to keep himself out of the crime circle and concentrated on writing and developing his career avoiding the social obstacles of being side-lined by the society as an ex-convict. Later after Mrs. Wallis’ death, he had a comeback in the world of crime after which again he was imprisoned for his criminal offenses, for nearly three months. Once again following his past routine he ran away from his work farm and a year later he took to robbery again for his survival. To his rescue he planned a fake suicide attempt to get himself declared as an insane criminal, surprisingly he was successful in doing so and on the contrary he continued with his criminal life fearlessly and unapologetically. In a drug racket, he was again sent to jail this time for five years. When in jail, he continued with his writing and henceforth his first literary work had been published named No Beast So Fierce in 1973. Later a movie was also scripted based on his first published document by Dustin Hoffman He will play tricks in your mind as you watch his >> Read More... . Straight Time was the movie scripted on his first novel where he even got an opportunity play the role of a cameo so that eventually became his first movie too. Later he got roles in other flicks too which extended his career as an actor.