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Lester Cole (Gerald L.C. Copley, J. Redmond Prior) was born on 19 June, 1904 in New York, New York, is an American screenwriter (1904-1985). Discover Lester Cole's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

Popular As Gerald L.C. Copley, J. Redmond Prior
Occupation screenwriter
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 19 June 1904
Birthday 19 June
Birthplace New York, New York
Date of death 15 August, 1985
Died Place San Francisco, California
Nationality United States

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1904

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.

Born to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Polish immigrants to the United States, his father was a Marxist garment industry union organiser, and Cole was a dedicated socialist from childhood.

Lester Cole began his career as an actor but soon turned to screenwriting.

His first work was If I Had a Million.

1932

Between 1932 and 1947, Cole wrote more than forty screenplays that were made into motion pictures.

1933

In 1933, he joined with John Howard Lawson and Samuel Ornitz to establish the Writers Guild of America, and in 1934 joined the American Communist Party.

1935

Cole married his first wife Jeanne “Jonnie” March in 1935.

Together they joined the Communist party.

1947

In 1947, he became one of the Hollywood Ten, who refused to answer questions before the House Committee on Un-American Activities about their Communist Party membership.

Cole was convicted of Contempt of Congress, fined $1,000 and sentenced to twelve months' confinement at the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, Connecticut, of which he served ten months.

As a result of his refusal to testify, Cole was blacklisted by studio executives, after which just three of his screenplays were made into films - submitted under the names Gerald L.C. Copley, Lewis Copley, and J. Redmond Prior.

1950

In the mid 1950s he briefly married Isabel (Dowden) Johnson, who later married Alger Hiss.

1953

The couple had two sons and divorced in 1953.

1956

Cole and Katharine Hogle married in 1956 and separated in 1977.

1966

His best-known screenplay was that for the highly successful Born Free (1966), credited to Gerald L.C. Copley.

Cole was married three times.

His first two marriages ended in divorce and he separated from his third wife.

1978

In it, he recounted a 1978 incident when he called into a radio talk show on which ex-Communist Budd Schulberg was a guest.

According to Cole, he berated Schulberg (who had testified before HUAC as a friendly witness) on the air as a "canary" and a "stool pigeon" before he was cut off:

"Aren't you the canary who sang before the un-American Committee? Aren't you that canary? Or are you another bird, a pigeon – the stool kind.... Just sing, canary, sing, you bastard!"

About this incident, Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley (Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry) comments, "Whether this actually happened is uncertain, but one can guess."

1981

In 1981, Cole published his autobiography, entitled Hollywood Red: The Autobiography of Lester Cole.

1985

Lester Cole died of a heart attack in San Francisco, California, in 1985.

Ronald Radosh, Emeritus Professor of History at City University of New York, wrote that Cole "remained a hardcore Communist" until his death.