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Alvah Bessie is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 4 june 1904 at New York City (USA)

Alvah Bessie

Alvah Bessie
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Nationality USA
Birth 4 june 1904 at New York City (USA)
Death 21 july 1985 (at 81 years)
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship

Alvah Cecil Bessie (June 4, 1904 – July 21, 1985) was an American novelist, journalist and 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.

Biography

Dans les années 1950, il fut une des victimes du maccarthysme et inscrit sur la liste noire du cinéma.

Best films

Objective, Burma!
Objective, Burma!
(1945)
(Story)

Usually with

Jack Warner
Jack Warner
(3 films)
Jaime Camino
Jaime Camino
(1 films)
Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens
(2 films)
Franz Waxman
Franz Waxman
(3 films)
John Alvin
John Alvin
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Alvah Bessie (10 films)

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Actor

Scriptwriter

Passage West
Passage West (1951)

Directed by Lewis R. Foster
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Payne, Dennis O'Keefe, Arleen Whelan, Arthur Hunnicutt, Mary Anderson, Mary Beth Hughes
Roles Story
Rating60% 3.0492353.0492353.0492353.0492353.049235
Six convicts led by Pete Black pull a Utah prison break. They intercept a California-bound wagon train and interrupt a child's funeral. Demanding the wagons leave immediately, they anger Rose Billings, a woman in a black dress mourning her father, but wagon train leader Jacob Karns, a preacher who plans to marry Rose, thinks it best to obey the men.
Ruthless
Ruthless (1948)
, 1h44
Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir
Actors Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet, Lucille Bremer, Martha Vickers
Rating67% 3.3885753.3885753.3885753.3885753.388575
Horace Vendig shows himself to the world as a rich philanthropist. In fact, the history of his rise from his unhappy broken home shows this to be far from the case. After being taken in by richer neighbors he started to exhibit an obsessive and selfish urge to make more and more money, loving and leaving women at will to further this end.
Smart Woman
Smart Woman (1948)
, 1h33
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Brian Aherne, Michael O'Shea, Constance Bennett, James Gleason, Barry Sullivan, Otto Kruger
Rating61% 3.0951453.0951453.0951453.0951453.095145
When a grand jury becomes dissatisfied with the efforts of District Attorney Bradley Wayne (Otto Kruger), it requests a special prosecutor, Robert Larrimore (Brian Aherne).
Hotel Berlin
Hotel Berlin (1945)
, 1h38
Directed by Peter Godfrey, Peter Godfrey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Faye Emerson, Helmut Dantine, Raymond Massey, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Alan Hale
Rating67% 3.391643.391643.391643.391643.39164
The lives of various desperate people intersect at the Hotel Berlin, a hotbed of Nazis, officers, spies and ordinary Germans trying to weather the inevitable defeat. Martin Richter, a leader of the German underground who has escaped from Dachau concentration camp, is hiding there, aided by some of the staff. He is hunted by Joachim Helm, who has his headquarters in the same building. Another hotel guest is Nobel laureate Johannes Koenig, Richter's friend from before the war and in Dachau.
Objective, Burma!
Objective, Burma! (1945)
, 2h22
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Errol Flynn, James Brown, James Brown, George Tyne, George Tobias, William Prince
Roles Story
Rating72% 3.6449753.6449753.6449753.6449753.644975
A group of United States Army paratroopers led by Captain Nelson (Errol Flynn) are dropped into Burma to locate and destroy a camouflaged Japanese Army radar station that is detecting Allied aircraft flying into China. For their mission, they are assigned Gurkha guides, a Chinese Army Captain and an older war correspondent (Henry Hull) whose character is used to explain various procedures to the audience.
The Very Thought of You
The Very Thought of You (1944)
, 1h39
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Fiennes, Dane Clark, Faye Emerson, Beulah Bondi
Rating69% 3.487923.487923.487923.487923.48792
Away for a year and a half serving their country, Army Sergeants Dave (Dennis Morgan) and "Fixit" (Dane Clark) spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, also visiting Dave's alma mater, Caltech.
Northern Pursuit
Northern Pursuit (1943)
, 1h33
Directed by Don Siegel, Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine, John Ridgely, Tom Tully, Monte Blue
Rating65% 3.2949653.2949653.2949653.2949653.294965
After a German U-boat drops off Nazi saboteurs, RCMP Corporal Wagner (Flynn) captures the leader, Colonel Hugo von Keller (Helmut Dantine), the only survivor after an avalanche wipes out the rest of the group. When left alone with the Canadian Mountie, von Keller discovers that Wagner speaks German and is of German ancestry, and tries to persuade his captor to help him. After being taken into custody, von Keller leads a jailbreak from a prisoner of war camp, enlisting other German soldiers in his escape. Wagner, seemingly under suspicion by the RCMP of being a Nazi sympathizer, is court martialed and contacted by Ernst Willis (Gene Lockhart), a real enemy agent, who hires him as a wilderness guide.