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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
Nov 16, 2015 · In the eighth grade, Cole’s school principal denounced Lester as a traitor for opposing America’s entry into World War I. He dropped out of high school at age 16 and eventually became a stage...
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...
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 postwar Red-scare era, died...
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 was an American screenwriter who started his career in 1932 and was blacklisted under Anti-American Activities Committee in 1947. He started writing and writing plays at the age of sixteen and his works include Hollywood on Trial, The Romance of Rosy Ridge, None Shall Escape and Fiesta.
