Person
Ben Hecht
- Known for
- Writing
- Birthday
- 1894-02-28
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 1964-04-18
- Popularity
- 1
Biography
Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A successful journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most enjoyed screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Hecht, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
