William Bast

William Bast was an American screenwriter and author. In addition to writing scripts for motion pictures and television, he was the author of two biographies of the screen actor James Dean. He often worked with his partner Paul Huson.

3 April 1931

Born on the same birth day (3 April): Ben Foster (footballer) • Catherine Spaak • Ervin Drake • François de Roubaix • Hanna Suchocka • Indrajit Coomaraswamy • James Smith (boxer) • Jane Goodall • Lee Williams (actor) • Matthew Goode • Rodney Hampton • St John Philby • Ted Hook • Washington Irving

Born in the same month (April 1931): Catherine Tizard • Daniel Ellsberg • James Dickens • John Buchanan (Canadian politician) • John Cain (41st Premier of Victoria) • John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles • Kenneth Bloomfield • Lewis Jones (rugby, born 1931) • Morgan Wootten • Paul Almond • Ram Dass • Walter Stewart (journalist)