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Lester Cole (June 19, 1904 – August 15, 1985) was an American screenwriter. Cole was one of the Hollywood Ten , a group of screenwriters and directors who were cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted for their refusal to testify regarding their alleged involvement with the Communist Party .
Lester Cole was a screenwriter and a member of the Hollywood Ten, who defied the HUAC investigation and was blacklisted. He wrote scripts for The Invisible Man Returns, Objective, Burma!, Born Free and more, and later emigrated to London.
- Writer, Additional Crew
- June 19, 1904
- Lester Cole
- August 15, 1985
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 New York to a Polish immigrant family.
- June 19, 1904
- August 15, 1985
Aug 17, 1985 · Aug. 17, 1985 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Lester Cole, an unreconstructed socialist who watched a successful screen-writing career vanish in a political cloud when he became one of the ...
Aug 18, 1985 · Lester Cole, a screenwriter who was one of the 10 Hollywood figures sent to prison in 1950 for refusing to testify before a House committee investigating Communist influence in the motion-picture ...
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.
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Nov 16, 2015 · Lester Cole (1904 – 1985) Image Credit: AP Images The child of Polish immigrants, Cole (ne Cohn) owed his political leanings to his Marxist father, who was a garment union organizer in New York ...