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Filmography
Meritie
(TV Series) (creator - 30 episodes, 1965 - 1966) (writer - 3 episodes, 1965)
1952-1953
Danger
(TV Series) (8 episodes)
1965
Meritie
(TV Series) (script supervisor - 10 episodes)
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34th Man
(1965)
... (script supervisor)
1965
Meritie
(TV Series) (1 episode)
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Self (10 credits)
1995
Close-Up
(TV Series documentary short)
Self
1995
American Cinema
(TV Series documentary)
Self - director / writer, Force of Evil
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Film Noir
(1995)
... Self - director / writer, Force of Evil
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Alternate Names:
John O. Killens | Abraham Polanski | Abraham L. Polonsky
Spouse:
Sylvia Marrow
(her death)
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Personal Quote:
[on watching the rushes of a day's filming]: Dailies can fool you. They're full of momentary energy. You have no way of knowing until they're cut together in the whole film if anything is going there. Accidental energy cancels out and things just lay there.
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Trivia:
Polonsky, a victim of the blacklist, was so offended when director
Irwin Winkler changed the main character (a director who is blacklisted after refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee) of his script for
Väärä totuus (1991) from a Communist Party member to a relatively apolitical liberal that he not only had his name taken off of the picture, he also ...
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Nickname:
Abe