Golden Globe award-winning actress Alfre Woodard and
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Based on Mark Greaney’s eponymous debut novel in 2009,
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Screenwriter and blacklist victim Walter Bernstein dies at 101
Bernstein worked on the screenplays for dozens of films, including
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948, with Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine),
That Kind of Woman (1959, with Sophia Loren),
The Wonderful Country (1959, with Robert Mitchum),
A Breath of Scandal (1960),
The Magnificent Seven (1960),
Miss Evers’ Boys (1997, about the infamous “Tuskegee Study”).
Screenwriter/producer Walter Bernstein (right) following a June 7, 2016 screening and Q&A of the 1976 film
The Front, whose screenplay Bernstein wrote, at the SVA Theater in Manhattan. (Luigi Novi /Wikimedia Commons)
During the period in which he was targeted by the anti-communist witch hunt, Bernstein wrote uncredited for various television programs, including
Walter Bernstein
After years on the Hollywood blacklist, he rebounded to also write Fail-Safe, Semi-Tough and The Molly Maguires.
Walter Bernstein, the resilient screenwriter who drew upon his ignominious experience on the blacklist in 1950s Hollywood to pen the Oscar-nominated script for
The Front, has died. He was 101.
Bernstein died Friday night, screenwriter, former WGA West president and longtime family friend Howard Rodman reported on Twitter.
Bernstein also adapted Eugene Burdick s novel for Sidney Lumet s nuclear-disaster film
Fail-Safe (1964) and Dan Jenkins book for the Burt Reynolds football romp
Semi-Tough (1977), and he wrote the John Schlesinger war drama
Yanks (1979), starring Richard Gere. Another three films he worked on starred Sophia Loren.