Biography
In February 1941, Bernstein was drafted into the U.S. Army. Eventually attaining the rank of Sergeant, he spent most of World War II as a correspondent on the staff of the Army newspaper Yank, filing dispatches from Iran, Palestine, Egypt, North Africa, Sicily and Yugoslavia. He wrote of his experiences in Palestine in an article entitled "War and Palestine". Bernstein wrote a number of articles and stories based on his experiences in the Army, many of which originally appeared in The New Yorke...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
2016
as Self
Larry Ceplair, co-author of The Inquisition in Hollywood, and blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein, a former member of the Communist Party, discu...
Imitation of Life: The Blacklist History of High Noon
2016
Historian Larry Ceplair and blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein discuss the production history of High Noon, Carl Foreman's blacklisting, and th...
A War in Hollywood
2009
as Self - Screenwriter
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Holl...
Trumbo
2007
as Self - Interviewee
Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hol...
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
2003
as Self
Director Elia Kazan and playwright Arthur Miller were once best friends and professional colleagues, to most that knew them then in both capacities as...
The Tramp and the Dictator
2002
as Self (uncredited)
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in ...
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
2001
as Self
Marilyn Monroe's final project, "Something's Got to Give", has become one of the most talked about unfinished films in history. The story of the film ...
On Cukor
2000
as Self
Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and interviews with his friends...
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000
as Self
Documentary featuring interviews with director Sidney Lumet, "Fail-Safe" (2000) producer George Clooney, star Dan O’Herlihy and screenwriter Walter Be...
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
2000
as Self
A documentary about 'The Magnificent Seven'.
Fail Safe
2000
Teleplay, Co-Executive Producer
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Durango
1999
Writer
In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream
1998
as Himself
This film discusses the effect on how major American films in Hollywood were influenced by the Eastern European Jewish culture that most of the major ...
Miss Evers' Boys
1997
Writer
The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure...
The Affair
1995
Story
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of h...
Doomsday Gun
1994
Writer
Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable of shooting at ranges more than 100 miles). When ...
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
1991
Writer, Director
Three short stories about women & men relationship.
The House on Carroll Street
1988
Writer
Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old l...
Little Miss Marker
1980
Screenplay, Director
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in the 1930s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change...
Yanks
1979
Screenplay
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don...
An Almost Perfect Affair
1979
Writer
An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair be...
The Betsy
1978
Screenplay
Ruthless patriarch Loren hires racecar driver Angelo to build a more efficient vehicle against the wishes of his grandson. But things get even messier...
Semi-Tough
1977
Screenplay
A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become ro...
Annie Hall
1977
as Annie's Date Outside Theatre
New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
The Front
1976
Screenplay
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
The Molly Maguires
1970
Producer, Screenplay
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company t...
The Money Trap
1965
Writer
When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglary case, Joe and Pete, decide to find the money and...
Fail Safe
1964
Screenplay
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little t...
The Train
1964
Screenplay
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He...
Something's Got to Give
1962
Writer
Remake of "My Favorite Wife," unfinished because of star Marilyn Monroe's firing, rehiring, and sudden August 1962 death.
Paris Blues
1961
Screenplay
During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and ...
The Magnificent Seven
1960
Screenplay
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
A Breath of Scandal
1960
Adaptation
A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.
Heller in Pink Tights
1960
Screenplay
Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading lad...
The Wonderful Country
1959
Screenplay
Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mex...
That Kind of Woman
1959
Screenplay
A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
1948
Adaptation
Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he kil...