Donald Bevan
Donald Joseph Bevan (January 16, 1920
Studio City, California)[1] was an American playwright whose works include the Broadway play Stalag 17, co-written with Edmund Trzcinski, and adapted as a movie in 1953. He was also the caricaturist for the celebrity wall at Sardi's
restaurant in New York City for over 20 years, the third of four such artists employed by Sardi's.
A United States Army Air Forces veteran who served in World War II as a gunner of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and as a prisoner of war in Germany after being shot down April 17, 1943, Bevan is buried at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California.
See also
- List of caricatures at Sardi's restaurant
References
- ^ Weber, Bruce (June 30, 2013). "Donald Bevan, 93, Sardi's Artist and 'Stalag 17' Writer, Dies". The New York Times. New York.
External links
- Donald Bevan at IMDb
- Donald Bevan at the Internet Broadway Database
- Donald Bevan at Find a Grave
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