A.I. Bezzerides

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A.I. " Buzz" Bezzerides was an American novelist and screenwriter, best known for writing Noir and Action motion pictures, especially several of Warners' "social conscience" films of the 1940s.

He was born Albert Isaac Bezzerides in Samsun, in the Trebizond Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire, to a Greek-Armenian family Archived September 14, 2006 at the Wayback Machine who immigrated to America before he was two. He wrote the novel The Long Haul, which got him into the screenwriting business. He wrote such action feature movies as They Drive by Night - which was based on his novel, The Long Haul, Desert Fury, Thieves' Highway, On Dangerous Ground, Beneath the 12 Mile Reef, Track of the Cat, and Kiss Me Deadly. He was one of the co-creators of the western television series The Big Valley.

Bezzerides' most famous script was Kiss Me Deadly, which was a masterful film noir and influenced many directors in France shortly after its release. Bezzerides transformed the novel by Mickey Spillane into an apocalyptic, atomic-age paranoia film noir.