A.I. Bezzerides Dies
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A.I. Bezzerides, a novelist-turned-Hollywood screenwriter best known for post-World War II film noir classics such as "Kiss Me Deadly," "On Dangerous Ground" and "Thieves' Highway," has died. He was 98.
Bezzerides died Jan. 1 at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills after a brief illness, daughter Zoe Ohl said.
Bezzerides was working as a communications engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power when his 1938 novel "Long Haul" was turned into "They Drive by Night," a 1940 melodrama starring George Raft and Humphrey Bogart as struggling trucker brothers hauling produce.
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A longtime Woodland Hills resident whose first marriage ended in divorce, Bezzerides was married to film and television writer Silvia Richards until her death in 1999.
In addition to his daughter Zoe, he is survived by another daughter, son, a granddaughter and four great-grandchildren.
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