A. I. Bezzerides
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Born: | August 9, 1906 Samsun, Ottoman Empire |
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Occupation(s): | Novelist & Screenwriter |
A.I. Bezzerides, born August 9, 1908, is an American novelist and screenwriter, who is best known for writing action motion pictures.
He was born Albert Isaac Bezzerides in Samsun, Ottoman Empire (now in Turkey), to a Greek-Armenian family[1][2][3] who immigrated to America before he was two. He wrote the novel The Long Haul (ca. 1938), which got him into the screenwriting business. He wrote such action feature movies as They Drive by Night (1940), Desert Fury (1947), Thieves' Highway (1949), On Dangerous Ground (1952), Track of the Cat (1954), and Kiss Me Deadly (1955). He was one of the co-creators of the western television series The Big Valley.