Biographies: Ted Berkman - Writer

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An American author, screenwriter, and journalist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in the United States and graduated from Cornell University in 1933. He worked for the New York Daily Mirror newspaper before World War II and then worked as an intelligence officer for the US Army during the war. He served as a war journalist after the war and was the first to report on the King David Hotel explosion in Jerusalem on ABC Radio in 1946. Later on, he appeared often on television shows and served as an unofficial foreign affairs advisor. When Berkman began working as a screenwriter in the 1950s, his first collaboration with his brother-in-law, Rafael Blau, was Bedtime for Bonzo (1951). He also wrote Fear Strikes Out (1957), Edge of Fury (1958), and Girl in the Night  (1960). 

• 9 October 2024
• Salma El-Sharkawy