A. I. Bezzerides

Screenwriter

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Also Known As
Albert Isaac Besserides
Birth Place
Samsun, TR
Born
August 09, 1908
Died
January 01, 2007

Biography

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Hard-hitting, noir-oriented scenarist. Bezzerides provided the novel basis for a couple of films and his most notable screenplay is for the deft, relentless adaptation of Mickey Spillane's crackling private dick tale, "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955)....

Filmography

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Buzz (2006)
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
Gatos
The Jayhawkers! (1959)
Writer
The Angry Hills (1959)
Screenwriter
A Bullet for Joey (1955)
Screenwriter
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Screenwriter

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Thieves' Highway (1949) -- (Movie Clip) I'm The Friendly Type
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Thieves' Highway (1949) -- (Movie Clip) The Chinese Have Small Feet

Family & Companions

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Silvia Bezzarides
Wife
Born in 1915; died in 1999.

Bibliography

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"There Is a Happy Land"
A.I. Bezzerides (1942)
"The Long Haul"
A.I. Bezzerides (1938)
"Thieves' Highway"
A.I. Bezzerides

Biography

Hard-hitting, noir-oriented scenarist. Bezzerides provided the novel basis for a couple of films and his most notable screenplay is for the deft, relentless adaptation of Mickey Spillane's crackling private dick tale, "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955).

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Buzz (2006)
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
Gatos

Writer (Feature Film)

The Jayhawkers! (1959)
Writer
The Angry Hills (1959)
Screenwriter
A Bullet for Joey (1955)
Screenwriter
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Screenwriter
Track of the Cat (1954)
Screenwriter
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
Writer
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
Screenwriter
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
Based on an Adapted by
Holiday for Sinners (1952)
Screenwriter
Sirocco (1951)
Screenwriter
Thieves' Highway (1949)
Screenwriter
Desert Fury (1947)
Adaptation
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Additional Dialogue
Juke Girl (1942)
Screenwriter

Life Events

1940

Wrote the novel "The Long Haul", made into the film "They Drive By Night"

1942

First screenplay credit, "Juke Girl"

1955

Network TV debut as writer for the series, "Screen Director's Playhouse"

1959

Final screenplay, "The Jayhawkers"

Videos

Movie Clip

Thieves' Highway (1949) -- (Movie Clip) I'm The Friendly Type Weary trucker Nick, at the San Francisco produce market (director Jules Dassin shooting on location), aiming not to get shafted on his first delivery, doesn’t know what to make of Rica (Valentina Cortese, her first scene), in Thieves’ Highway, 1949, from A.I. Bezzerides’ novel and screenplay.
Thieves' Highway (1949) -- (Movie Clip) The Chinese Have Small Feet During his big fat Greek-American return to California, ship mechanic Nick (Richard Conte), with his mom, dad (Tamara Shayne, Morris Carnovsky) and probably-fianceè Polly (Barbara Lawrence), discovers bad news that had been kept from him, early in Jules Dassin’s Thieves’ Highway, 1949.
Thieves' Highway (1949) -- (Movie Clip) I Got Plenty Of Shirts Location shooting at the San Francisco produce market, for which the movie is famous, novice trucker Nick (Richard Conte) jousts with dealer Figlia (Lee J. Cobb), not revealing he’s seeking revenge for injuries to his father, Edwin Max and George Tyne the henchmen, in Thieves’ Highway, 1949.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Why'd You Let It Die? Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker), on a tip from a building super (Silvio Minciotti), pays a visit to spacey Lily (Gaby Rodgers), sometime roommate of the murdered girl, just off Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, in Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly, 1955.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) -- (Movie Clip) He's A Bedroom Dick Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer leaves the hospital with gal-Friday Velda (Maxine Cooper), weeks after the non-accident that killed his hitcher, James Seay apprehending and Robert Cornthwaite interrogating for the FBI, Wesley Addy his cop pal Pat, in Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly, 1955.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Something Big Classical music and skimpy workout gear for assistant Velda (Maxine Cooper) as Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) arrives at the office with ideas about the torture-murder of the girl he found on the highway, in Robert Aldrich's film of the Mickey Spillane novel, Kiss Me Deadly, 1955.
Action In The North Atlantic (1943) -- (Movie Clip) My Name Is Joe Rossi Opening with patriotism and Humphrey Bogart’s narration as Merchant Marine first mate Joe Rossi, director Lloyd Bacon working nearly in the dark, with Raymond Massey as crusty skipper Steve Jarvis, in the Warner Bros. wartime hit Action In The North Atlantic, 1943.
Action In The North Atlantic (1943) -- (Movie Clip) We Didn't Ask For This War Below decks with the crew of the Northern Star, novice Ensign Parker (Dick Hogan) getting schooled by Peter Whitney, Dane Clark, Alan Hale and Sam Levene as Goldberg, then we see there really is a German sub nearby, early in the WWII Merchant Marine story Action In The North Atlantic, 1943.
Action In The North Atlantic (1943) -- (Movie Clip) We Got Spliced Yesterday Not long after their last ship was sunk by the Germans, Merchant Marine captain Jarvis (Raymond Massey) tracks down his first mate Rossi (Humphrey Bogart), with Pearl (Julie Bishop) whom, we learn here, isn’t just another girlfriend, in Action In The North Atlantic, 1943.
Action In The North Atlantic (1943) -- (Movie Clip) My Dear Adolf Seven, then twelve days after their Merchant Marine tanker was sunk by a Nazi submarine, the crew of the Northern Star is rescued, Humphrey Bogart, Dane Clark, Raymond Massey the captain, Alan Hale sassing the enemy, in Warner Bros.’ Merchant Marine adventure, Action In The North Atlantic, 1943.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Thumb's Not Good Enough? That's Cloris Leachman barefoot on the highway in a trenchcoat, Ralph Meeker as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer at the wheel of his Jaguar XK-20, Nat Cole's "Rather Have The Blues" on the radio, in the famous opening of Robert Aldrich's, Kiss Me Deadly, 1955.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Popcorn Ralph Meeker (as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer) makes a buy from a street vendor (on Rampart Blvd. near downtown Los Angeles), already knowing he's being tailed by a goon (Paul Richards), in Robert Aldrich's cold-war crime thriller Kiss Me Deadly, 1955.

Trailer

Sirocco - (Original Trailer) Humphrey Bogart is back in another North African city full of intrigue, Sirocco (1951) co-starring Lee J. Cobb and Zero Mostel.
Angry Hills, The - (Original Trailer) A World War II correspondent fights to get strategic information out of occupied Greece. Starring Robert Mitchum.
Track Of The Cat - (Original Trailer) A panther haunts a dysfunctional pioneer family in Track of the Cat (1954) starring Robert Mitchum.
On Dangerous Ground - (Original Trailer) A tough cop sent to help in a mountain manhunt falls for the quarry's blind sister in On Dangerous Ground (1952) starring Robert Ryan.
Beneath The 12-Mile Reef - (Original Trailer) Love brings together two families of rival sponge fishers in the underwater adventure Beneath The 12-Mile Reef (1953).
Action in the North Atlantic -- (Original Trailer) Merchant Marines fight off enemy attacks at the start of World War II in Action in the North Atlantic (1943) starring Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey.
Juke Girl - (Original Trailer) Ronald Reagan fights for farm workers' rights in Juke Girl (1942) but gets distracted (as does the viewer) by Ann Sheridan.
Kiss Me Deadly - (Textless trailer) A hitchhiker wearing nothing but a trench coat leads detective Mike Hammer into an atomic conspiracy in Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly (1955).

Companions

Silvia Bezzarides
Wife
Born in 1915; died in 1999.

Bibliography

"There Is a Happy Land"
A.I. Bezzerides (1942)
"The Long Haul"
A.I. Bezzerides (1938)
"Thieves' Highway"
A.I. Bezzerides

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