Albert Isaac Bezzerides

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Albert Isaac Bezzerides ( AI Bezzerides ; born August 9, 1908 in Samsun , Ottoman Empire , † January 1, 2007 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American novelist and screenwriter .

life and career

He was born into a Greco-Armenian family who emigrated to America before he was two years old. Bezzerides began writing short stories while studying at the University of California, Berkeley . His first story ( Passage into Eternity ) he published in 1935. Three years later his first novel The Long Haul appeared , which was filmed in 1940 under the direction of Raoul Walsh with the title They Drive by Night with Humphrey Bogart and George Raft . Bezzerides received $ 2,000 from Warner Bros. for the film rights, the script was already written.

Warner offered him a seven-year scriptwriting contract for $ 300 a week, and Bezzerides quit his job to work for the studio. His first original screenplay was for the film Juke Girl (1942) by Curtis Bernhardt, starring Ann Sheridan and Ronald Reagan . Bezzerides wrote in the 1940s and 1950s several screenplays for film noir (including rat's nest ) and was most recently in the 1960s, co-author of Western - television series The Big Valley .

Novels

  • 1938: The Long Haul
  • 1942: There is a Happy Land
  • 1949: Thieves' Market

Filmography (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Bezzerides, Albert Isaac
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bezzerides, AI
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American novelist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Samsun , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2007
Place of death Los Angeles , California