Joshua Shelley (born Joshua Kurzweil;[1] January 27, 1920 – February 16, 1990) was one of the actors blacklisted by movie studios as a result of the House Un-American Activities Committee's (HUAC) investigation of the Communist Party in Hollywood in 1952.
A member of The Actors Studio from its inception in 1947,[2] Shelley worked frequently on stage, both on and off Broadway, during his Hollywood exile.
Shelley's onscreen work, both pre- and post-blacklist, was confined primarily to television.
Nonetheless, two career highlights remain Shelley's enthusiastically received 1949 feature film debut in City Across the River,[3][4][5][6] as well as the blacklist-related 1976 film, The Front, notable for reuniting Shelley with several fellow blacklistees, including cast members Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, and Lloyd Gough, screenwriter Walter Bernstein and director Martin Ritt,[7] the latter also a fellow Actors Studio member.
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