Name Joshua Shelley | Role Actor | |
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Born 27 January 1920 New York City, New York Died February 16, 1990, Los Angeles, California, United States Movies and TV shows The Front, B J and the Bear, Little Miss Marker, The Perils of Pauline, The Apple Dumpling Gang Similar People Walter Bernstein, Martin Ritt, Pamela Austin, Glen A Larson, Norman Tokar | ||
Joshua Shelley (27 January 1920 - 16 February 1990) was one of the actors blacklisted by movie studios as a result of the House Un-American Activities Committee's (HUAC) investigation of the Communist Party in Hollywood in 1952. He did not begin to again work regularly in Hollywood until 1973 when his career restarted.
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A member of The Actors Studio from its inception in 1947, Shelley worked frequently on stage, both on and off Broadway, during his Hollywood exile. Shelley's onscreen work, both pre- and post-blacklist, was confined primarily to television. Nonetheless, two career highlights remain Shelley's enthusiastically received 1949 feature film debut in City Across the River, as well as the blacklist-related 1976 film, The Front, notable for reuniting Shelley with several fellow blacklistees, including cast members Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, and Lloyd Gough, screenwriter Walter Bernstein and director Martin Ritt, the latter also a fellow Actors Studio member.