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About Herbert Joseph Biberman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Biberman
Herbert J. Biberman (March 4, 1900[1] – June 30, 1971) was an American screenwriter and film director. He may be best known for having been one of the Hollywood Ten as well as directing Salt of the Earth, a 1954 film about a zinc miners' strike in Grant County, New Mexico.
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Eva Biberman and was the brother of American artist, Edward Biberman.[2] Biberman's pre-blacklist career included writing such films as King of Chinatown, When Tomorrow Comes, Action in Arabia, The Master Race, and New Orleans, as well as directing such films as One Way Ticket, Meet Nero Wolfe, and The Master Race. He married actress Gale Sondergaard in 1930; the marriage endured until Biberman's death. Herbert Biberman died from bone cancer in 1971 in New York City.
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The Hollywood Ten in November 1947 waiting to be fingerprinted in the U.S. Marshal's office after being cited for contempt of Congress. Front row (from left): Herbert Biberman, attorneys Martin Popper and Robert W. Kenny, Albert Maltz, Lester Cole. Middle row: Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Samuel Ornitz. Back row: Ring Lardner Jr., Edward Dmytryk, Adrian Scott. Though he would become fanatically pro-war after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, during the Hitler-Stalin pact, his outspoken opposition to U.S. Lend-Lease to the United Kingdom was so intense, the FBI suspected Biberman (who was actually Jewish) of being a Nazi.[3] In 1947, the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities began investigating the film industry, and Biberman became one of ten Hollywood writers and directors cited for contempt of Congress when they refused to answer questions about their Communist Party USA affiliation.
Biberman and his fellow Ten went to jail over their contempt convictions, Biberman for six months. Edward Dmytryk ultimately cooperated with the House committee, but Biberman and the others were blacklisted by official Hollywood movie studio bosses.
Biberman went to work independently after his release from jail. The result was Salt of the Earth, a fictionalized account of the Grant County miners' strike written by Michael Wilson and produced by Paul Jarrico, neither of whom were members of the Ten but both of whom were also blacklisted. Biberman died in New York City.
Salt of the Earth has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film has also been preserved by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Wilson, one of the blacklisted screenwriters who worked under assumed names, later won an Academy Award for a screenplay he wrote under a nom de plume, Bridge on the River Kwai.
One of the Hollywood Ten, a 2000 film chronicling his blacklisting and the making of Salt of the Earth from Biberman's point of view, starred Jeff Goldblum as Biberman and Greta Scacchi as Gale Sondergaard. The film's closing credits noted Biberman had never been removed from the old blacklist formally, and that Sondergaard had not found work in Hollywood until after her husband's death.
Filmography[edit] Herbert Biberman's filmography is recorded at the Internet Movie Database.[4]
Year Film Role Notes 1935 Eight Bells dialogue director One-Way Ticket Director (as Herbert Biberman) 1936 Meet Nero Wolfe Director 1939 King of Chinatown Writer (story) When Tomorrow Comes Writer (uncredited) 1944 Action in Arabia Writer (original screenplay) (as Herbert Biberman) The Master Race Writer (screenplay) (story), Director Together Again Writer (story) (as Herbert Biberman) 1946 Abilene Town associate producer 1947 New Orleans Writer (story), associate producer 1950 The Hollywood Ten Himself (uncredited) 1954 Salt of the Earth Director 1969 Slaves Writer, Director
TILFØJET AF BENTE BUNDGAARD HANSEN DEN 6. FEBRUAR 2015. Filminstruktør på Columbia Film. Var på top 10 over de "Hollywoodpersoner", som blev efterforsket i USA for mistanke om kommunistiske tilhørsforhold. Han og hustruen Gale slap med en advarsel. Var efterkommer af russisk-jødiske emigranter. Det var derfor ekstra ironisk, at FBI anklagede ham for at være Nazist. Sad 6 mdr. i fængsel i forbindelse med anklagerne. Gift med Gale Sondergaard 1930 - 1971( hans død). Forældre: Joseph Biberman, Eva Biberman. Bror: Edward Biberman, kunstner. Børn: Daniel Hans Biberman og Joan Kirsten Campos (adoptivbørn). Instruktør på filmen "Salt of the Earth" 1954. Skrev filmen "King of Chinatown". Karrieren omhandler meget andet, bl. a. Dokumentarfilmen " The Hollywood Ten" fra 1950. Herbert Joseph Biberman var oprindelig tilknyttet "the Guild" som manager, forfatter og sceneinstruktør. I 1935 bliver han ansat på Columbia Film som filminstruktør, og han og Gale flytter fra N. Y. Til L. A., hvor de tilbringer de næste 20 år. I 1965 flytter de tilbage til New York, hvor Gale Sondergaard vender tilbage til teaterverdenen. TILFØJET AF BENTE BUNDGAARD HANSEN DEN 6. FEBRUAR 2015.
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Herbert Joseph Biberman's Timeline
| 1900 |
March 4, 1900
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1940 |
December 31, 1940
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Georgia, United States
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| 1942 |
December 11, 1942
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| 1971 |
June 30, 1971
Age 71
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New York, New York, United States
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