Abraham Polonsky

Abraham Lincoln Polonsky was an American film director, screenwriter, essayist and novelist. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Body and Soul but in the early 1950s was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios, after refusing to testify at congressional hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee, in the midst of the McCarthy era. ^{Abraham Polonsky, American director and screenwriter (d. 1999)}

5 December 1910

Born on the same birth day (5 December): Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs • Andrew Yeom Soo-jung • C. R. Swart • Christian Yelich • Gareth McAuley • Maddie Poppe • Manish Malhotra • Margaret Cho • Mikelangelo Loconte • Nicolas Cleynaerts • Nikolai Uglanov • Oleksandr Yaroslavskyi • Paul Painlevé • Ross Bagley • Semi Ojeleye • Shikhar Dhawan • Strom Thurmond

Born in the same month (December 1910): Abe Burrows • Alex North • Ambrosio Padilla • Billy Williams (singer) • Carl Dudley • Charles Olson • Duncan McNaughton • Eknath Easwaran • Ellen Braumüller • Enrique Maier • Freddie Brown (cricketer) • Imperio Argentina • Louis Prima • Marguerite Churchill • Max Miedinger • Paul Bowles • Ramaswamy Venkataraman • Ronald Coase • Sy Oliver • Taisto Mäki • Vere Bird