Lester Cole

Biography

Lester Cole was an American screenwriter. His film credits include The House of the Seven Gables (1940), Objective, Burma! (1945), and The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947). He is best known as one of the "Hollywood Ten", the group of screenwriters and directors cited for contempt of Congress, and subsequently blacklisted and imprisoned, for refusing to testify regarding their alleged involvement with the Communist Party.