While staff sergeant in the Army during WWII wrote "Reporter-at-Large" column for The New Yorker and was roving correspondent for Yank magazine; became staff writer for The New Yorker after war

First film credit (as co-adaptor), "Kiss the Blood Off My Hands"

Blacklisted during the 1950s

First screenwriting credit after blacklisting, "That Kind of Woman", directed by Sidney Lumet

Did uncredited screenwriting on "The Magnificent Seven"

Penned the screenplay for "Fail Safe", directed by Lumet

First film as co-producer (with director Martin Ritt), "The Molly Maguires"; also wrote screenplay

Appeared in feature-length documentary "Hollywood on Trial"

Scripted the blacklist-themed drama "The Front", starring Woody Allen

Had bit part as Annie's date outside movie theater in "Annie Hall"

Penned the screenplay adaptation of "Semi-Tough"

Produced and wrote two pilots for a proposed series about a detective named "Sparrow"; neither sold

Contributed to the script of "Yanks"

Film directing debut (also writer), "Little Miss Marker"

Scripted "The House on Carroll Street"

Directed and wrote the "Return to Kansas City" segment of the HBO anthology "Women & Men II"

Provided the story for the WWII-era drama about interracial love, "The Affair"

Adapted David Feldshuh's award-winning play "Miss Evers' Boys" into an acclaimed HBO movie

Penned the teleplay for the CBS movie "Durango"

Adapted 1964 screenplay of "Fail Safe" for a live broadcast starring George Clooney