Education
Muller studied with filmmaker George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1970s.
Muller studied with filmmaker George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1970s.
He is known for writing books about movies, particularly film noir. Novelist James Ellroy has dubbed him "The Czar of Noir". Muller is the son of a famed San Francisco boxing writer of the same name, whom he used as the basis for the character of Billy Nichols in his period crime novel The Distance, which was named the Best First Novel of 2002 by the Private Eye Writers of America.
Billy Nichols returned in the 2003 novel Shadow Boxer.
Angel Face
Born to Kill, with audio interview excerpts of director Robert Wise
Crime Wave, with crime novelist James Ellroy
Fallen Angel, with Susan Andrews (daughter of actor Dana Andrews)
Gilda
The House on 92nd Street
The House on Telegraph Hill
I Wake Up Screaming
The Lineup, with crime novelist James Ellroy
Macao, with screenwriter Stanley Rubin and actress Jane Russell
Mau Mau Sex Sex, with director Ted Bonnitt
Number Way Out
The Racket
Road House, with film noir historian Kim Morgan
The Sniper
Somewhere in the Night
They Live by Night, with actor Farley Granger
Where the Sidewalk Ends.