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Lester Cole (June 19, 1904 – August 15, 1985) was an American screenwriter. Cole was one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters and directors who were cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted for their refusal to testify regarding their alleged involvement with the Communist Party.
Lester Cole was a screenwriter and a member of the Hollywood Ten, who defied the HUAC investigation and was blacklisted. He wrote scripts for The Invisible Man Returns, Objective, Burma!, Born Free and more, and later emigrated to London.
- Writer, Additional Crew
- June 19, 1904
- Lester Cole
- August 15, 1985
Aug 17, 1985 · Lester Cole, an unreconstructed socialist who watched a successful screen-writing career vanish in a political cloud when he became one of the "Hollywood Ten" in the...
Nov 16, 2015 · Lester Cole (1904 – 1985) Image Credit: AP Images The child of Polish immigrants, Cole (ne Cohn) owed his political leanings to his Marxist father, who was a garment union organizer in New York...
Aug 18, 1985 · Lester Cole, a screenwriter who was one of the 10 Hollywood figures sent to prison in 1950 for refusing to testify before a House committee investigating Communist influence in the motion-picture...
Screenwriter Lester Cole, of the Hollywood Ten, would not appear to have moved an intellectual muscle since he was wowed by Gorky, at age 21 in 1925, and envisioned ""the nobility of fighting for a socialist life for all."".
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Lester Cole. In 1933 he was one of the founders of the Screen Writers Guild, of which he served as President from 1944-45. (1944-1945) President of the Screen Writers Guild. Blacklisted in 1950s, during the McCarthy "Red Scare" era. He was one of the infamous "Hollywood Ten".
