19-493: John Berry may refer to: Entertainment [ edit ] John Berry (film director) (1917–1999), American film director John Berry (illustrator) (1920–2009), British illustrator John Berry (country singer) (born 1959), American country singer John Berry (album) , debut album John Berry (arts administrator) (born 1961), British musician and arts administrator John Berry (Beastie Boys) (1963–2016), member of
38-483: A Romanian mother. He was a child performer in vaudeville , first going on stage at the age of four. In his teens he briefly worked as a boxer under the name Jackie Sold. Berry's father was a restaurateur who at one point owned 28 restaurants around New York City but he went out of business during the Great Depression and Berry sought to support himself by working as a comedian and master of ceremonies in
57-506: A curiously blessed individual despite all I've lived through." Dennis Berry (1944-2021), also a film director, was his son. John Fraser de Berry John Fraser de Berry (November 26, 1816 – November 15, 1876) was a Canadian lawyer and politician in Quebec. Fraser de Berry was born at Laval , Lower Canada , in 1816. He was the son of Simon Fraser, a doctor and officer of the 42nd Regiment of Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) . He
76-493: A film about a slave uprising that starred Dorothy Dandridge . The blacklist was broken in 1960 with the release of two films written by blacklisted Hollywood Ten member Dalton Trumbo ; Exodus and Spartacus , which gave Trumbo — one of the most prominent of the Ten — his first screen credits since being blackballed by Hollywood. With the blacklist gone, Berry returned to the U.S. in the early 1960s, where he directed episodes of
95-574: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages John Berry (film director) John Berry (September 6, 1917 – November 29, 1999) was an American film director. He went into exile in France when his career was interrupted by the Hollywood blacklist . Berry was born Jak Szold in The Bronx , New York, the son of a Polish-Jewish father and
114-846: The Hollywood 10 , a group of directors and writers who refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their pursuit of supposed Communist Party infiltration within the U.S. film industry. After directing the crime drama He Ran All the Way (1951), Berry was named a communist by fellow director and former party member Edward Dmytryk , one of the Hollywood Ten, who had been jailed for contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with HUAC. After being released from prison, Dmytryk had gone into exile in England but he sought to reenter
133-653: The Montarville division of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada in 1858, but was defeated. Upon Confederation in 1867, he was appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec , for the division of Rougemont . He was a supporter of the Conservative party of Quebec . Originally known simply as "John Fraser", he added the ancient name of his family, "de Berry", upon his appointment to
152-1823: The Beastie Boys Politics [ edit ] John Berry (ambassador) (born 1959), director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (2009–2013), ambassador to Australia John Berry (Arkansas politician) (1800–1856), state legislator in Arkansas. John Berry (congressman) (1833–1879), U.S. Representative from Ohio John Berry (New Jersey governor) (1619–1712), Deputy Governor of New Jersey John M. Berry (Kentucky politician) (1935–2016), American politician in Kentucky John M. Berry (Minnesota politician) (1827–1887), American jurist and politician in Minnesota John T. Berry (1924–1966), American politician in Massachusetts John Walter Berry (1868–1943), Canadian politician John Wesley Berry (1858–1931), Tacoma councilman Sports [ edit ] Jonathan Berry (born 1953), chess master Jack Berry (hurler) (1944–2003), Irish sportsperson John Berry (cricketer) (1823–1895), British cricketer John Berry (rugby) (1866–1930), rugby union footballer John Berry (speedway promoter) (1944–2012), British speedway promoter and England national team manager Johnny Berry (1926–1994), Manchester United and England footballer John Berry (footballer, born 1880) (1880–1954), English footballer John Paul Berry (1918–1970), American baseball pitcher and first baseman Other [ edit ] John Berry (Royal Navy officer) (1635–1689/90), British naval officer involved in
171-567: The Catskill resorts as well as working as an actor. Berry's first big break came when he was hired by the Mercury Theatre for its debut production, titled Caesar (1937). Berry acted in other roles with the theater and assisted Orson Welles in directing the 1942 production of Native Son . In a late-life interview with The New York Times , Berry spoke positively of his association with Welles and John Houseman , who co-founded
190-550: The Hollywood blacklist era were the inspiration for the character played by Robert De Niro in the film Guilty by Suspicion (1991). Berry played Ben, the night club owner, in the movie Round Midnight (1986), which was produced by Irwin Winkler , the writer-director of Guilty by Suspicion . Berry, looking back at his career for an interview with Newsday , remarked: "I wouldn't give up my life for anything. I have been
209-697: The Hollywood film industry and voluntarily testified before HUAC in April 1951, clearing himself by "naming names". Berry had joined the Communist Party during the Spanish Civil War . By naming Berry and 25 other alleged communists, Dmytryk was then able to resume his Hollywood career. Berry was also named by ex-Communist Party member Frank Tuttle , who testified before HUAC in 1951 after returning from Austria , to clear his name and regain employment in Hollywood. Unable to secure work, Berry left
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#1732773128608228-642: The Mercury. "It was like living near the center of a volcano of creating inspiration and fury, glamorous and exciting, full of the kind of theatricality that seems lost forever," he said. By 1943, Houseman was producing films in Hollywood at Paramount Pictures and hired Berry, who attended Paramount Studios' director-in-training programme, to direct Houseman's production of Miss Susie Slagle's starring Veronica Lake and Lillian Gish . Berry stayed with Paramount in Hollywood and directed other features, including From This Day Forward and Cross My Heart . Berry
247-599: The TV shows East Side/West Side and Seaway . He continued to work in France, but again returned to the U.S in the 1970s and directed several films, including Claudine (1974), starring Diahann Carroll , for which she received an Academy Award nomination; Thieves (1977) based on the Herb Gardner play and starring Marlo Thomas , Charles Grodin , and Irwin Corey ; and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978). At
266-603: The U.S. and resettled with his family in Paris. He Ran All the Way would be the last American film Berry directed for nearly a quarter of a century. In France, Berry was hired to co-direct Atoll K (1951), the last comedy film of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy . Berry did not receive a screen credit; only French director Léo Joannon was credited as director. During the 1950s, Berry directed two films starring Eddie Constantine , Ça va barder (1953) and Je suis un sentimental (1955) and he also directed Tamango (1958),
285-456: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title John Berry . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Berry&oldid=1245414247 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
304-736: The settlement of Newfoundland John Cutting Berry (1847–1936), American medical missionary to Japan John Berry (priest) (1849–1923), Church of England priest and Royal Navy chaplain John Berry (zoologist) (1907–2002), Scottish zoologist and ecologist John N. Berry (1933–2020), American librarian John W. Berry (librarian) (born 1947), American librarian John W. Berry (psychologist) (born 1939), Canadian psychologist John Stevens Berry , American attorney See also [ edit ] John Barry (disambiguation) John Bury (disambiguation) John Fraser de Berry (1816–1876), Quebec lawyer and politician Topics referred to by
323-580: The time of his death in Paris, he was editing a film version (released in 2000, starring Danny Glover and Angela Bassett ) of the 1969 Athol Fugard play Boesman and Lena , which he had directed in its acclaimed US premiere at the Circle in the Square Theatre in 1970. Berry divided the remainder of his career between theater direction in London and film direction in Paris. His experiences during
342-414: Was sacked by Paramount for refusing to direct the studio's 1946 Alan Ladd spy film O.S.S. Berry returned to direct the musical Casbah (1948) for Tony Martin 's production company featuring Martin and Yvonne De Carlo for Universal, Tension (1950) for MGM and He Ran All the Way (1951) starring John Garfield and Shelley Winters . In 1950, Berry agreed to direct a short documentary on
361-623: Was the seigneur of Contrecoeur and of Cournoyer. In 1842, he married Elizabeth Fraser, his cousin. Admitted as a notary in 1839, Fraser de Berry became president of the commission for Small Claims. He was the Chief of the New Clan Fraser of the province of Quebec and a major of the reserve militia for Verchères. He was also the president of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Fraser de Berry stood for election for
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