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Abraham Polonsky
Born
Abraham Lincoln Polonsky
December 5, 1910
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died
October 26, 1999(1999-10-26) (aged 88)
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Occupations
Film director
screenwriter
novelist
essayist
Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (December 5, 1910 – October 26, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, essayist and novelist. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Body and Soul but in the early 1950s was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios, after refusing to testify at congressional hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee, in the midst of the McCarthy era.
Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (December 5, 1910 – October 26, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, essayist and novelist. He was nominated for...
selected AbrahamPolonsky to write the script, which is based on a novel of the same name by William P. McGivern. Blacklisted in those years, Polonsky had...
Notable people with this name include: AbrahamPolonsky (1910–1999), American film director and novelist Antony Polonsky (born 1940), American professor of...
about the struggle over a defecting Soviet general. The screenplay by AbrahamPolonsky was based on a 1977 novel by Colin Forbes. It was the last film for...
Garfield and directed by AbrahamPolonsky. It was adapted by Polonsky and Ira Wolfert from Wolfert's novel Tucker's People. Polonsky had been a screenwriter...
Lawton. The film was written and directed by the once blacklisted AbrahamPolonsky, who, due to his blacklisting, had not directed a film since Force...
Howard Rodman (credited here under the pseudonym Henri Simoun) and AbrahamPolonsky. It was based on the 1962 novel The Commissioner by Richard Dougherty...
Gibbons, p.53 E.g. by AbrahamPolonsky of Edward Dmytryk's The Caine Mutiny: William Pechter and AbrahamPolonsky, 'AbrahamPolonsky and "Force of Evil"'...
Hollywood. Retrieved April 18, 2022. Pechter, William; Polonsky, Abraham (Spring 1962). "AbrahamPolonsky and "Force of Evil"". Film Quarterly. 15 (3): 53....
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here Dept. Sheriff Christopher 'Coop' Cooper AbrahamPolonsky Downhill Racer David Chappellet Michael Ritchie 1970 Little Fauss and...
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here) 1969 Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here Lola AbrahamPolonsky BAFTA Award for Best Actress (also for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance...
Hercules 26 Hoyt Axton 61 US Singer, Actor Gremlins The Black Stallion 26 AbrahamPolonsky 88 US Screenwriter, Director Body and Soul Force of Evil 26 Albert...
Harry Tugend from a screenplay by Frank Butler, Helen Deutsch and AbrahamPolonsky, based on a novel by Jolán Földes. The music score was by Victor Young...
Co-cinematographer with Jordan Cronenweth Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here AbrahamPolonsky The Happy Ending Richard Brooks Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid...
konjokradice) is a 1971 French-Italian-Yugoslav adventure film directed by AbrahamPolonsky. It is loosely based on the 1917 novel with the same name by Joseph...
(20th) The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Sidney Sheldon‡ Body and Soul AbrahamPolonsky A Double Life Ruth Gordon & Garson Kanin Monsieur Verdoux Charlie Chaplin...
Reed - Actor Albert Whitlock – Special Effects Ian Bannen - Actor AbrahamPolonsky – Screenwriter Dirk Bogarde - Actor Lila Kedrova - Actress Edward Dmytryk...
distributed by MGM, the industry leader: Force of Evil (1948), directed by AbrahamPolonsky and starring John Garfield, both of whom were blacklisted in the 1950s...
it." While they were blacklisted, Manoff and fellow Jewish writers AbrahamPolonsky and Walter Bernstein formed what has been described as a "kind of collective...
release from her Selznick contract and began her association with AbrahamPolonsky on Force of Evil. She appeared in only one other film, playing the...
Jerry Gatlin United States comedy Western Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here AbrahamPolonsky Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clark, Barry Sullivan...
collective of the blacklisted writers Bernstein, Arnold Manoff, and AbrahamPolonsky is portrayed in an early scene in which the Murphy character, modeled...
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