Carl Foreman

Born in Chicago, Illinois, USA on July 23, 1914 — died June 26, 1984 (aged 69)

Carl Foreman, CBE was an American screenwriter and film producer who wrote the award-winning films The Bridge on the River Kwai and High Noon, among others. He was one of the screenwriters who were blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s because of their suspected communist sympathy or membership in the Communist Party.