Lester Koenig

Lester Koenig was born on Dec 03, 1918 in USA. Lester Koenig's big-screen debut came with The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress directed by William Wyler in 1944. Lester Koenig is known for Roman Holiday directed by William Wyler, Gregory Peck stars as Joe Bradley and Audrey Hepburn as Princess Ann. The upcoming new movie Lester Koenig plays is Roman Holiday which will be released on Sep 02, 1953.

Although never a card-carrying communist himself, Koenig was blacklisted because he refused to name names. The result was that he unable to work in the film business. He began producing jazz records on Commodore Records with some of the best West Coast musicians of that time, among them Art Pepper and Ornette Coleman, whom he was the first to record. Pepper writes about Koenig's decency in his memoir, "Straight Life."