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): Brendan Barber • Cyrus K. Holliday • Ervin Drake • Fazlur Rahman Khan • Gus Grissom • Harold Vick • Israel Folau • Jane Goodall • Jaya Prada • Jonathan Blondel • Maxi López • Michael Neander • Piet de Jong • Robert Karvelas • Russel Wright • Sandra Boynton • St John Philby • Wayne Newton

Born in the same month (April 1931): Bobby Ray Inman • Catherine Tizard • Daniel Ellsberg • Frank Auerbach • Jack Le Goff • John Buchanan (Canadian politician) • Julian Carroll • Kishori Amonkar • Lonnie Donegan • Malcolm Browne • Vladimir Kuznetsov (javelin thrower) • Walter Stewart (journalist)