Joshua Shelley

from New York, New York, USA

Artwork for All the President's MenImage of Joshua Shelley

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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Timeline

1986Aged 66

  • Poster for Quicksilver

    Shorty

1980Aged 60

  • Poster for Little Miss Marker

    Benny

1978Aged 58

  • Poster for Ring of Passion

    Max

1976Aged 56

  • Poster for Crackle of Death

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for All the President's Men

    Al Lewis

  • Poster for The Front

    Sam

1975Aged 55

  • Poster for Funny Lady

    Painter

  • Poster for Switch

    Man in Shooting Gallery

1974Aged 54

  • Poster for Sonny Boy

    Uncle Ralph

  • Poster for The Front Page

    Cab Driver

1973Aged 53

  • Poster for Firehouse

    Mr. Warnecke

  • Poster for The Marcus-Nelson Murders

    Mr Sack

1967Aged 47

  • Poster for The Perils of Pauline

    Director

1949Aged 29

  • Poster for City Across the River

    Theodore 'Crazy' Perrin

  • Poster for Yes Sir, That's My Baby

    Arnold Schultze