Walter Bernstein

Walter Bernstein was born on Aug 20, 1919 in USA. Walter Bernstein's big-screen debut came with Kiss the Blood Off My Hands directed by Norman Foster in 1948. Walter Bernstein is known for By Sidney Lumet directed by Nancy Buirski, Sidney Lumet stars as Self and as . Walter Bernstein has got 3 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award Walter Bernstein achieved is Nantucket Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Walter Bernstein plays is By Sidney Lumet which will be released on Oct 07, 2016.

Blacklisted writer in the 1950s, a victim of the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee), he still continued to write under pseudonyms as did many other blacklisted writers such as Ring Lardner Jr. and Dalton Trumbo, and his biggest contribution during that time was probably his writing work with other blacklisted writers Arnold Manoff & Abraham Polonsky on the You Are There (1953) TV segments starring Walter Cronkite. Of large importance is his screenplay for the dark comedy about blacklisted screenwriters, Le prête-nom (1976) starring Woody Allen. The blacklisted writers in the deli are based on a composite of him, Manoff & Polonsky. After he graduated from Dartmouth, he wrote for The New Yorker magazine and also the G.I. weekly "Yank" during World War II. He had barely started working in Hollywood when he was blacklisted. He is a recipient of The Writers Guild of America East Lifetime Achievement Award and he also wrote the book "Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist". Though unfairly blacklisted by Hollywood for his political alliances, luckily he recovered to have a long remarkable career.