Walter Bernstein

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1919-08-20 (102 years old)

Deathday

2021-01-22

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Walter Bernstein

Biography

In February 1941, Bernstein was drafted into the U.S. Army. Eventually attaining the rank of Sergeant, he spent most of World War II as a correspondent on the staff of the Army newspaper Yank, filing dispatches from Iran, Palestine, Egypt, North Africa, Sicily and Yugoslavia. He wrote of his experiences in Palestine in an article entitled "War and Palestine". Bernstein wrote a number of articles and stories based on his experiences in the Army, many of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. These were collected in Keep Your Head Down, his first book, published in 1945. Bernstein first came to Hollywood in 1947, under a ten-week contra...

Production

1964

Fail Safe

as Screenplay

1976

The Front

as Screenplay

1964

The Train

as Screenplay

1977

Semi-Tough

as Screenplay

2000

Fail Safe

as Teleplay

1959

1961

Paris Blues

as Screenplay

1960

1965

1994

Doomsday Gun

as Writer

1980

Little Miss Marker

as Screenplay

1980

1997

1959

That Kind of Woman

as Screenplay

1978

The Betsy

as Screenplay

2000

Fail Safe

as Co-Executive Producer

1970

1960

1995

The Affair

as Story

1960

A Breath of Scandal

as Adaptation

1979

Yanks

as Screenplay

1999

Durango

as Writer

1970

The Molly Maguires

as Screenplay

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