Biography
Morris Carnovsky was an American stage and film actor. He studied at Washington University in St. Louis and began his career in Yiddish theatre before moving to New York, where he joined the Theatre Guild and helped found the Group Theatre in 1931.
He appeared in numerous Broadway productions and made his film debut as Anatole France in The Life of Emile Zola (1937). Carnovsky featured in films including Edge of Darkness (1943), Dead Reckoning (1947), Thieves' Highway (1949), Gun Crazy (1950) and Cyrano de Bergerac (1950). He was blacklisted in the 1950s after refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Later in his career Carnovsky returned to the stage, performing Shakespearean roles at the American Shakespeare Festival. He appeared in A View from the Bridge (1962) and The Gambler (1974), and was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1979. Carnovsky died in 1992.
