Joshua Shelley
Actor
Biography
Joshua Shelley (born Joshua Kurzweil; January 27, 1920 – February 16, 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.
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.
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As Director
Filmography
All the President's Men
as Al Lewis 1976
The Front Page
as Cab Driver 1974
The Front
as Sam 1976
Funny Lady
as Painter 1975
Little Miss Marker
as Benny 1980
City Across the River
as Theodore 'Crazy' Perrin 1949
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
as Mr Sack 1973
Firehouse
as Mr. Warnecke 1973
Ring of Passion
as Max 1978
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
as Arnold Schultze 1949
Crackle of Death
1976
Switch
as Man in Shooting Gallery 1975