Henry Bean
Henry Bean (born August 3, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, film producer, novelist, and actor. Best known as a screenwriter, Bean wrote the screenplays for Internal Affairs, Deep Cover, Venus Rising, The Believer, Basic Instinct 2, and Noise. Bean directed The Believer and Noise.
Henry Bean
- Name
- Henry Bean
- Born
- 3 August 1945
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
- Occupation
- * Film actor
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- Germantown Friends School
- Honours
- Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award · Open Palm Award · Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay
- Languages
- English
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Henry Bean (born August 3, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, film producer, novelist, and actor. Best known as a screenwriter, Bean wrote the screenplays for Internal Affairs, Deep Cover, Venus Rising, The Believer, Basic Instinct 2, and Noise. Bean directed The Believer and Noise.
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He also acted in The Believer, and was a producer on Deep Cover and Noise.
Henry Bean studied at Germantown Friends School. The recorded working language is English. Residence is recorded at Philadelphia. Distinctions recorded are Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award, Open Palm Award and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay.
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• Name — Henry Bean • Born — 3 August 1945 • Birthplace — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US • Occupation — * Film actor • director • screenwriter • Years Active — 1977–present • Children — 2 Henry Bean (born August 3, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, film producer, novelist, and actor. Best known as a screenwriter, Bean wrote the screenplays for Internal Affairs, Deep Cover, Venus Rising, The Believer, Basic Instinct 2, and Noise. Bean directed The Believer and Noise. He also acted in The Believer, and was a producer on Deep Cover and Noise.
Life
Life
Bean was born in Philadelphia, to Fahnya (née Schorr) and Donald Bean (a lawyer). Bean is Jewish. He received a BA from Yale University in 1967; and a MA from Stanford University in 1973.
Career
Career
Bean's 1983 novel False Match won a PEN Center USA award for "First Fiction". The Believer was awarded the dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Festival; the Golden St. George at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival.; and Bean was named a "Breakthrough Director" at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in 2001. Bean was the inspiration for the protagonist of Noise. He was so tired of constant noise around him and his home in New York City that he decided to take the law into his own hands. If a car alarm was going off and the owner of the vehicle didn't rectify the situation, Bean would break into the car to disable the offending car alarm. Bean was eventually arrested and jailed. He admits to doing it a few more times since. Bean was a co-writer on two episodes in the second season of The OA.
Personal life
Personal life
Bean married Nancy Eliason on January 3, 1968; they divorced February 14, 1970. He married screenwriter Leora Barish on March 23, 1980.
Filmography
Filmography
• Year — Title — Director — Writer — Producer — Notes • 1983 — Running Brave • 1990 — Internal Affairs • 1992 — Deep Cover • 1995 — Venus Rising • 2001 — The Believer — Role as "Ilio Manzetti" • 2006 — Basic Instinct 2 • 2007 — Noise
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Henry Bean was born on 3 August 1945.
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Henry Bean received Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award, Open Palm Award and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay. Recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as having received Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award, Open Palm Award and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay.
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