Quiz

As a young man, he was a mechanic and driver for the trucking company his father had started, and was an engineer at the Los Angeles water department. He sold short stories to Scribner's, The New Republic, and Esquire.

Name is pronounced bez-AIR-a-dees.

Later, when he worked at the movie studios, stars such as Edward G. Robinson hired him to rewrite their dialogue.

Born in 1908 to a Greek father and Armenian mother, Bezzerides immigrated to Fresno, California when he was a toddler.

Born in Turkey, but grew up in the San Joaquin Valley, an area of Fresno, California.

Had two daughters and one son.

Worked at Warner Brothers in the 1940's for $300 a week.

Great-granduncle of composer Marianthe Bezzerides.

Children with Von Gorne: Peter, of Woodland Hills, and Zoe Ohl of West Los Angeles. Child with Richards: Rachel Morgan of Los Angeles.

Studied electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.