Michael Hickey, originally of
Manhasset, New York, is a
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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best known for the screenplay of the horror film ''
Silent Night, Deadly Night
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''. Hickey's controversial screenplay focused on a
serial killer who, disguised as
Santa Claus
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, takes the lyric "He knows if you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sake" rather too literally.
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Hickey also authored the stage play ''Murrow'' about the life of newscaster Edward R. Murrow, which premiered at the Bristol Riverside Theater in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Hickey directed a production of the play at the Producers Club in New York City under the title ''A Question of Loyalty'' in 1998.
Hickey received a screen credit ("special thanks") on the restored version of Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 featur ...
's 1958 " Vertigo" in recognition of his contribution to the 1998 restoration of the film performed by Robert Harris and James Katz for Universal Pictures.
Hickey lives in Palm Springs, California
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male screenwriters
People from Manhasset, New York
Writers from Palm Springs, California
Screenwriters from California
Screenwriters from New York (state)
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