Joshua Shelley is one of the more persistent actors of his generation with the kind of filmography that takes a while to scroll through. 'The Front Page' rounds out the better-known part of the filmography. 32 credits sit on the filmography. The role of Al Lewis in 'All the President's Men' is the one that keeps being brought up.
Joshua Shelley
70 years (Jan 27, 1920 – Feb 16, 1990)New York, New York, USA
9 Movies23 Series
Joshua Shelley is one of the more persistent actors of his generation with the kind of filmography that takes a while to scroll through. 'The Front Page' rounds out the better-known part of the filmography. 32 credits sit on the filmography. The role of Al Lewis in 'All the President's Men' is the one that keeps being brought up.
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.