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Walter Bernstein, celebrated screenwriter, is dead at 101 By John Anderson New York Times,Updated January 24, 2021, 4:25 p.m. Email to a Friend Jelani Cobb, an honoree at the Writers Guild Awards, talked with Walter Bernstein at the Edison Ballroom in New York.REBECCA SMEYNE/NYT Walter Bernstein, whose career as a top film and television screenwriter was derailed by the McCarthy-era blacklist, and who decades later turned that experience into one of his best-known films, “The Front,” died on Saturday morning at his home in Manhattan. He was 101. His wife, Gloria Loomis, said the cau...

Walter Bernstein, scriptwriter who skewered McCarthy-era blacklist in ‘The Front,’ dies at 101 Adam Bernstein Walter Bernstein, a scriptwriter who was blacklisted in the 1950s for his Communist Party membership and two decades later skewered the McCarthy era in “The Front,” a film that starred Woody Allen in a rare semi-serious role and earned an Oscar nomination for best screenplay, died Jan. 23 at his home in Manhattan. He was 101. The cause was pneumonia, said his wife, literary agent Gloria Loomis. Mr. Bernstein first published in the New Yorker at 20 and d...