Donald Joseph Bevan (January 16, 1920 – May 29, 2013) was an American playwright whose works include the

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play ''

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'', co-written with

Edmund Trzcinski Edmund Trzcinski (2 January 1921 – 3 June 1996) was an American playwright, best known for the play ''Stalag 17''. He was born in the Bronx, New York City, New York. An enlisted member of the 8th Air Force, his airplane was shot down over Germa ...

, and adapted as a movie in 1953. He was also the caricaturist for the

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restaurant in New York City for over 20 years, the third of four such artists employed by Sardi's. Bevan was born in

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. A

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veteran who served in World War II as a gunner of a

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and as a

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in Germany after being shot down April 17, 1943, Bevan died in

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, and is buried at Riverside National Cemetery in

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