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Article: Author, Hollywood screenwriter
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 15, 2007
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LOS ANGELES -- A.I. Bezzerides, a novelist-turned-Hollywood
screenwriter best known for post-World War II film noir classics
such as "Kiss Me Deadly," "On Dangerous Ground" and "Thieves'
Highway," has died. He was 98.
Mr. Bezzerides died Jan. 1 at the Motion Picture & Television
Hospital in Woodland Hills after a brief illness, daughter Zoe Ohl
said.
Mr. Bezzerides was working as a communications engineer for the
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power when his 1938 novel Long
Haul was turned into "They Drive by Night," a 1940 melodrama
starring George Raft and Humphrey Bogart as struggling trucker
brothers hauling produce.
After Warner Bros. paid him $2,000 for the rights to his ...