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Walter Bernstein, celebrated screenwriter, is dead at 101
By John Anderson New York Times,Updated January 24, 2021, 4:25 p.m.
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Jelani Cobb, an honoree at the Writers Guild Awards, talked with Walter Bernstein at the Edison Ballroom in New York.REBECCA SMEYNE/NYT
Walter Bernstein, whose career as a top film and television screenwriter was derailed by the McCarthy-era blacklist, and who decades later turned that experience into one of his best-known films, âThe Front,â died on Saturday morning at his home in Manhattan. He was 101.
His wife, Gloria Loomis, said the cause was pneumonia.
Described in a 2014 Esquire profile as a âhuman Energizer bunny,â Mr. Bernstein was writing, teaching, and generating screenplay ideas well into his 90s. Until recently, he had several projects in various stages of development. He created the BBC mystery miniseries âHiddenâ in 2011, and he was an adjunct instructor of dramatic writing at New York Univer