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Noel Behn(1928-1998)

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  • Actor
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Noel Behn was born on 6 January 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), The Kremlin Letter (1970) and The Brink's Job (1978). He was married to Jo Ann LeCompte. He died on 27 July 1998 in New York City, New York, USA.
BornJanuary 6, 1928
DiedJuly 27, 1998(70)
BornJanuary 6, 1928
DiedJuly 27, 1998(70)
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    • 1 nomination total

Known for

Michelle Forbes, Yaphet Kotto, Max Perlich, Kyle Secor, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Clark Johnson, and Melissa Leo in Homicide: Life on the Street (1993)
Homicide: Life on the Street
8.7
TV Series
  • Writer
Orson Welles, Bibi Andersson, George Sanders, Max von Sydow, Richard Boone, Nigel Green, Dean Jagger, Patrick O'Neal, and Barbara Parkins in The Kremlin Letter (1970)
The Kremlin Letter
6.2
  • Writer
  • 1970
The Brink's Job (1978)
The Brink's Job
6.5
  • Writer
  • 1978
Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling in Stardust Memories (1980)
Stardust Memories
7.2
  • Doug Orkin
  • 1980

Credits

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Writer

  • Michelle Forbes, Yaphet Kotto, Max Perlich, Kyle Secor, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Clark Johnson, and Melissa Leo in Homicide: Life on the Street (1993)
    Homicide: Life on the Street
    8.7
    TV Series
    • written by
    • teleplay by
    • story by
    • 1993–1999
  • Tattingers (1988)
    Tattingers
    6.8
    TV Series
    • Writer
    • 1989
  • The Brink's Job (1978)
    The Brink's Job
    6.5
    • based on "Big Stickup At Brink's"
    • 1978
  • Orson Welles, Bibi Andersson, George Sanders, Max von Sydow, Richard Boone, Nigel Green, Dean Jagger, Patrick O'Neal, and Barbara Parkins in The Kremlin Letter (1970)
    The Kremlin Letter
    6.2
    • novel "The Kremlin Letter"
    • 1970

Actor

  • Tattingers (1988)
    Tattingers
    6.8
    TV Series
    • Noel Behn
    • 1989
  • Mia Farrow and Gena Rowlands in Another Woman (1988)
    Another Woman
    7.2
    • Engagement Party Guest
    • 1988
  • Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling in Stardust Memories (1980)
    Stardust Memories
    7.2
    • Doug Orkin
    • 1980

Personal details

  • Born
    • January 6, 1928
    • Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Died
    • July 27, 1998
    • New York City, New York, USA(heart attack)
  • Spouse
    • Jo Ann LeCompte(divorced)
  • Other works
    Novel: "Big Stick-Up at Brinks". NOTE: Filmed as The Brinks Job (1970).

Did you know

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    Novelist, screenwriter, stage producer and raconteur. Best known for his novel "The Kremlin Letter", which drew on his experiences working for U.S. Army Counterintelligence. During the 1950s and '60s he was the producing director for the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. He also accounted for one-quarter of a distinguished intellectual foursome inhabiting the same 57th Street building (the others were Paddy Chayevsky, Bob Fosse and playwright Herb Gardner), forming an "unofficial club" and collaborating on each other's projects.
  • Quotes
    [on why he insisted that most so-called spy novels are really detective novels] In a detective novel, the hero solves a crime; in a spy novel, the hero commits one.

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