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Article: Screenwriter A.I. 'Buzz' Bezzerides
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 16, 2007
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A.I. "Buzz" Bezzerides, 98, a novelist who became a Hollywood
screenwriter best known for post-World War II film noir classics
such as "Kiss Me Deadly," "On Dangerous Ground" and "Thieves'
Highway," died Jan. 1 at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in
Woodland Hills, Calif. No cause of death was reported, but he broke
a hip last year.
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 novel
and put him ...