Henry Bean

For other people named Henry Bean, see Henry Bean (disambiguation).

Henry Bean (born August 3, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, film producer, novelist, and actor.

Henry Bean
Born	(1945-08-03) August 3, 1945 (age 79) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Occupations	Film actor director screenwriter
Years active	1977–present
Children	2

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

Bean was born in Philadelphia, to Fahnya (née Schorr) and Donald Bean (a lawyer).^[1] Bean is Jewish.^[2][1][3] He received a BA from Yale University in 1967; and a MA from Stanford University in 1973.^[1]

Career

Bean's 1983 novel False Match^[4] won a PEN Center USA award for "First Fiction".^[5]

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.;^[6] and Bean was named a "Breakthrough Director" at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in 2001.

Bean was the inspiration for the protagonist of Noise.^[7] 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.^[8]

Bean was a co-writer on two episodes in the second season of The OA.

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

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1983	Running Brave	No	Yes	No
1990	Internal Affairs	No	Yes	No
1992	Deep Cover	No	Yes	Yes
1995	Venus Rising	No	Yes	No
2001	The Believer	Yes	Yes	No	Role as "Ilio Manzetti"
2006	Basic Instinct 2	No	Yes	No
2007	Noise	Yes	Yes	Yes

References

1. Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television: Volume 53. December 14, 2009. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
2. Bean, Henry (February 25, 2002). The Believer: Confronting Jewish Self-Hatred. Basic Books. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-56025-372-3.
3. Clark, John (March 15, 2002). "A Question of Identity for the Man Behind 'The Believer'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
4. Bean, Henry (1982). False Match. Poseidon Press. ISBN 978-0-671-44251-4.
5. "Past Winners". PEN America. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
6. "23rd Moscow International Film Festival (2001)". www.moscowfilmfestival.ru. MIFF. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
7. Denby, David (May 12, 2008). "The Unquiet Life". The New Yorker. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
8. Aloisi, Silvia (October 23, 2007). "Tim Robbins wages crusade against noise in new film". Reuters. Retrieved August 11, 2021.

External links

• Henry Bean at IMDb
• Henry Bean at AllMovie