Eddie Muller is the host of Noir Alley on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Every Saturday night, Noir Alley presents classic noir films featuring some of the best set-ups and shake-downs involving iconic antiheroes and the unforgettable dames they fall for.
A contemporary renaissance man, Muller writes novels, biographies, movie histories, plays, short stories, and films. In 2023 he received the prestigious Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America, recognizing his invaluable contributions to the crime and mystery genre. As founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, Muller has been instrumental in reviving America’s noir heritage, which includes restoring and preserving (so far) more than 30 nearly lost classics (mostly in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive) such as Too Late for Tears (1949), Woman on the Run (1950), and The Bitter Stems (1956). Since 2003 he has produced and hosted his own NOIR CITY film festivals; the flagship festival in the San Francisco Bay Area is the largest noir retrospective in the world. It has spawned eight other NOIR CITY festivals worldwide, all programmed and hosted by Muller. He has presented and lectured on noir at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Muller is also on the Board of Directors for the Doris Day Animal Foundation.
His most recent books are 2023’s Kid Noir: Kitty Feral and the Case of the Marshmallow Monkey and Eddie Muller’s Noir Bar, as well as the 2021 revised edition of Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir from TCM and Running Press—which was recently hailed by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the “100 Greatest Film BookS of All-Time.” His 2002 debut novel, The Distance, earned the Best First Novel “Shamus” Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, which he co-wrote with the actor, was a national bestseller in 2007. He has twice been named a San Francisco Literary Laureate.
