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A former writer for The New Yorker who wrote many distinguished scripts for live TV in the late 1940s, Bernstein earned one feature credit, for "Kiss the Blood Off My Hands" (1948), before being blacklisted in 1950. He returned to film work nine years later, scripting such fine films as Sidney Lumet's "Fail Safe" and John Frankenheimer's "The Train" (both 1964) with Franklin Coen and Frank Davis, and Martin Ritt's "The Molly Maguires" (1970), which he co-produced....

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Filmography

Trumbo - ( Himself / 2008 / Released / )
The Tramp and the Dictator - ( Himself / 2002 / Released / )
The House on Carroll Street - ( Screenplay / 1988 / Released / )
The Legend of Billie Jean - ( Screenplay / 1985 / Released / Key Video )
Little Miss Marker - ( Director / 1980 / Released / )
Little Miss Marker - ( Screenplay / 1980 / Released / )
An Almost Perfect Affair - ( Screenplay / 1979 / Released / )
Yanks - ( Screenplay / 1979 / Released / United Artists Pictures Inc. )
The Betsy - ( Screenplay / 1978 / Released / )
Annie Hall - ( Annie's Date Outside Theatre / 1977 / Released / )
Semi-Tough - ( Screenplay / 1977 / Released / )
Hollywood on Trial - ( Himself / 1976 / Released / )
The Front - ( Screenplay / 1976 / Released / )
The Molly Maguires - ( Producer / 1970 / Released / )
The Molly Maguires - ( Screenplay / 1970 / Released / )
The Money Trap - ( Screenplay / 1966 / Released / MGM/UA Entertainment Company )
The Train - ( Screenplay / 1965 / Released / )
Fail Safe - ( Screenplay / 1964 / Released / )
Paris Blues - ( Screenplay / 1961 / Released / )
A Breath of Scandal - ( Screenplay / 1960 / Released / )
Heller in Pink Tights - ( Screenplay / 1960 / Released / )
That Kind of Woman - ( Screenplay / 1959 / Released / )

TV Credits
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days ( 2001 / Released ): Actor / Other Writer
Fail Safe ( 2000 / Released ): Co-Executive Producer / Screenplay / From Story
On Cukor ( 2000 / Released ): Actor
Durango ( 1999 / Released ): Screenplay
Miss Evers' Boys ( 1997 / Released ): Screenplay
The Affair ( 1995 / Released ): From Story
Doomsday Gun ( 1994 / Released ): Screenplay
Women & Men II ( 1991 / Released ): Director / Screenplay
Sparrow ( 1978 / Released ): Producer / Writer
Sparrow ( 1978 / Released ): Producer / Writer

Full Biography (Back to top)


A former writer for The New Yorker who wrote many distinguished scripts for live TV in the late 1940s, Bernstein earned one feature credit, for "Kiss the Blood Off My Hands" (1948), before being blacklisted in 1950. He returned to film work nine years later, scripting such fine films as Sidney Lumet's "Fail Safe" and John Frankenheimer's "The Train" (both 1964) with Franklin Coen and Frank Davis, and Martin Ritt's "The Molly Maguires" (1970), which he co-produced. His screenplay for "The Front" (1976) was a poignant, embittered portrait of the travails of a circle of screenwriters during the blacklist. Bernstein made his directing debut in 1980 with a rather bland remake of "Little Miss Marker". In the 1990s, he wrote a handful of teleplays, most notably the HBO drama "Miss Evers' Boys" (1997) and adapted his own screenplay of "Fail Safe" for a live CBS broadcast in 2000.

Profession(s):
screenwriter, producer, director, journalist
Sometimes Credited As:
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Family
father:Louis Bernstein
wife:Gloria Loomis
wife:Judith Braun (third wife; married in October 1961; divorced in 1984; mother of his four children)

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Education
Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire BA 1940
Awards (Back to top)

Saturn Award Best Single Television Presentation "Fail Safe" 2001
Humanitas Prize PBS/Cable "Miss Evers' Boys" 1997
IFP Gotham Award Writer 1996
Writers Guild of America Award Best Screenplay "The Front" 1977

Milestones (Back to top)

2000 Adapted 1964 screenplay of "Fail Safe" for a live broadcast starring George Clooney
1999 Penned the teleplay for the CBS movie "Durango"
1997 Adapted David Feldshuh's award-winning play "Miss Evers' Boys" into an acclaimed HBO movie
1995 Provided the story for the WWII-era drama about interracial love, "The Affair"
1991 Directed and wrote the "Return to Kansas City" segment of the HBO anthology "Women & Men II"
1988 Scripted "The House on Carroll Street"
1980 Film directing debut (also writer), "Little Miss Marker"
1979 Contributed to the script of "Yanks"
1978 Produced and wrote two pilots for a proposed series about a detective named "Sparrow"; neither sold
1977 Had bit part as Annie's date outside movie theater in "Annie Hall"
1977 Penned the screenplay adaptation of "Semi-Tough"
1976 Appeared in feature-length documentary "Hollywood on Trial"
1976 Scripted the blacklist-themed drama "The Front", starring Woody Allen
1970 First film as co-producer (with director Martin Ritt), "The Molly Maguires"; also wrote screenplay
1964 Penned the screenplay for "Fail Safe", directed by Lumet
1960 Did uncredited screenwriting on "The Magnificent Seven"
1959 First screenwriting credit after blacklisting, "That Kind of Woman", directed by Sidney Lumet
1948 First film credit (as co-adaptor), "Kiss the Blood Off My Hands"
While staff sergeant in the Army during WWII wrote "Reporter-at-Large" column for The New Yorker and was roving correspondent for Yank magazine; became staff writer for The New Yorker
Blacklisted during the 1950s



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