1920-01-27 ( 105 years old ) in New York, New York, USA
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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Movies
Little Miss Marker
1980-03-21
Loose Change
1978-02-26
Ring of Passion
1978-02-04
The Front
1976-09-17
All the President's Men
1976-04-09
Crackle of Death
1976-03-28
Switch [Pilot]
1975-03-21
Funny Lady
1975-03-15
The Front Page
1974-11-01
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
1973-03-08
Firehouse
1973-01-02
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
1949-09-14
City Across the River
1949-04-07
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