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Screenwriter Lester Cole, who is known in cinema history primarily as a member of the "Hollywood Ten," a group who defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities investigation into their political beliefs who were black-listed by the industry for their defiance, was born on June 19, 1904 in New York to a Polish immigrant family.
Lester Cole is known as an Screenplay, Writer, Story, Actor, Theatre Play, Additional Writing, and Adaptation. Some of his work includes Born Free, The Invisible Man Returns, Objective, Burma!, If I Had a Million, Blood on the Sun, The House of the Seven Gables, None Shall Escape, and High Wall.
Nov 16, 2015 · In the eighth grade, Cole’s school principal denounced Lester as a traitor for opposing America’s entry into World War I. He dropped out of high school at age 16 and eventually became a stage...
Aug 17, 1985 · Lester Cole, an unreconstructed socialist who watched a successful screen-writing career vanish in a political cloud when he became one of the “Hollywood Ten” in the postwar Red-scare era, died...
Lester Cole. Writer: The Invisible Man Returns. Screenwriter Lester Cole, who is known in cinema history primarily as a member of the "Hollywood Ten," a group who defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities investigation into their political beliefs who were black-listed by the industry for their defiance, was born on June 19, 1904 in ...
A Screen Writers Guild founder, Lester Cole wrote more than 40 films, including The Invisible Man Returns (1940), The House of Seven Gables (1940), Objective Burma (1945), The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947), High Wall (1947), and Born Free (1966).
Screenwriter Lester Cole, of the Hollywood Ten, would not appear to have moved an intellectual muscle since he was wowed by Gorky, at age 21 in 1925, and envisioned ""the nobility of fighting for a socialist life for all."".
