Alvah Bessie
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Alvah Bessie (June 4, 1904 - July 21, 1985) was a New York City-born American screenwriter who was imprisoned for ten months and blacklisted by the movie studio bosses for being one of the group known as the Hollywood Ten.
Educated at Columbia University, he fought as a volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War.
In 1946 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for the film, Objective, Burma!.
Alvah Bessie died in Terra Linda, California, aged 81.
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