Robert Rossen

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Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.

In May 1953, Rossen appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee and named 47 people as Communists. According to the New York Times, he testified,

I don't think any one individual can either indulge himself in the luxury of personal morality or put himself against what I feel today is the security and safety of the nation.

He was born in New York City, New York. Robert Rossen died at age 57 and is interred at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

[edit] Works include

• They Won't Forget (1937) (writer)
• A Walk in the Sun (1945) (screenwriter)
• Johnny O'Clock (1947) (director)
• Body and Soul (1947) (director)
• All the King's Men (1949) (writer, producer, director)
• The Undercover Man (1949) (producer)
• Alexander the Great (1956) (writer, producer, director)
• The Hustler (1961) (co-writer, producer, director)
• Lilith (1964) (writer, director)

Rossen was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director for All the King's Men and The Hustler.

[edit] External links

• Robert Rossen at the Internet Movie Database