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    BornIrving Pichel · June 24, 1891 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    DiedJuly 13, 1954 (aged 63) · Hollywood, California, U.S.
    SpouseViolette Wilson
    Children3
    Movies
    Career

    Pichel was born to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh. He attended Pittsburgh Central High School with George S. Kaufman. The two collaborated on a play, The Failure. Pichel graduated from Harvard University in 1914 and w… See more

    Actor

    Pichel moved to Los Angeles where he studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. It was there that Pichel achieved considerable acclaim as the title character in the landmark Pasadena Playhouse production of … See more

    Director

    Pichel was a friend of the screenwriter George S. Kaufman and joined the circle of those witty and iconoclastic friends who had abandoned the Algonquin Round Table in New York to make small fortunes in the talkies. Pic… See more

    Blacklist

    In 1947, Pichel was one of 19 members of the Hollywood community who were subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee during the United States' second Red Scare. This group became kn… See more

    Personal life

    Irving Pichel married Violette Wilson, daughter of Jackson Stitt Wilson, a Methodist minister and Socialist mayor of Berkeley, California. Her sister was actress Viola Barry. Irving and Violette had three sons: Julia… See more

    Posthumous awards

    A special 1951 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation was retroactively awarded by the 59th World Science Fiction Convention 50 years later, in 2001, to Destination Moon for being one of the science ficti… See more

    Filmography

    • The Right to Love (1930) as Caleb Evans (film debut)
    • Murder by the Clock (1931) as Philip Endicott
    • An American Tragedy (1931) as District Attorney Orville Mason… See more

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