Ben Hecht
American writer, director, and producer (1894–1964)
Biography
Ben Hecht was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most enjoyed screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films, including six Academy Award nominations and two wins.
Occupation
Ben Hecht is recorded as a producer, a novelist, a film producer, a film director, a journalist, a playwright, a writer and a screenwriter, born in New York (1894–1964).
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