Joseph Stefano(1922-2006)
- Additional Crew
- Writer
- Producer
Creative horror screenwriter Joseph Stefano has been writing scripts
since the early sixties. His first was L'orchidée noire (1958). Less than a year later,
he met his new friend, Alfred Hitchcock, to do the famous script for Psychose (1960).
Stefano decided to drop the assignment for Hitchcock's Les Oiseaux (1963). Stefano
later wrote a screenplay for Les Griffes de la peur (1969) and, by the early 1970s, he
did numerous made for TV screenplays including Revenge! (1971), Reveillon en famille (1972) and
Snowbeast (1977). When the 1980s came around, Stefano had no great intention to
write any more scripts, and he was discouraged when Alfred Hitchcock died in 1980. It
wasn't until the early 1990s that he wrote the script for the last
sequel in the Psycho series (he dropped the other scripts for II and
III) - Psychose IV (1990). Stefano has won many awards for his
writing.
