Abraham Polonsky
Screenwriter, Film director
1910 – 1999
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Who was Abraham Polonsky?
Abraham Lincoln Polonsky was an American film director, Academy-Award-nominated screenwriter, essayist, and novelist blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s, in the midst of the McCarthy era.
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- Born
- Dec 5, 1910
New York City - Also known as
- Abraham Lincoln Polonsky
- Abe
- Abraham L. Polonsky
- Parents
- Spouses
- Sylvia Marrow
(1937 - 1993)
- Sylvia Marrow
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- City College of New York
- Columbia Law School
- DeWitt Clinton High School
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- Oct 26, 1999
Beverly Hills
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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