Henry Bean (born August 3, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, film producer, novelist, and actor. Best known as a screenwriter, Bean wrote the screenplays for '' Internal Affairs'', '' Deep Cover'', '' Venus Rising'', '' The Believer'', '' Basic Instinct 2'', and ''

Noise Noise is sound, chiefly unwanted, unintentional, or harmful sound considered unpleasant, loud, or disruptive to mental or hearing faculties. From a physics standpoint, there is no distinction between noise and desired sound, as both are vibrat ...

''. Bean directed ''The Believer'' and ''Noise''. He also acted in ''The Believer'', and was a producer on ''Deep Cover'' and ''Noise''.

Life

Bean was born in

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, to Fahnya (née Schorr) and Donald Bean (a lawyer). Bean is

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. He received a BA from

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in 1967; and a MA from

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in 1973.

Career

Bean's 1983 novel ''False Match'' won a

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award for "First Fiction". ''The Believer'' was awarded the dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Festival; the Golden St. George at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival.; and Bean was named a "Breakthrough Director" at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in 2001. Bean was the inspiration for the

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of ''Noise''. He was so tired of constant noise around him and his home in New York City that he decided to take the law into his own hands. If a car alarm was going off and the owner of the vehicle didn't rectify the situation, Bean would break into the car to disable the offending car alarm. Bean was eventually arrested and jailed. He admits to doing it a few more times since. Bean was a co-writer on two episodes in the second season of '' The OA''.

Personal life

Bean married Nancy Eliason on January 3, 1968; they divorced February 14, 1970. He married screenwriter Leora Barish on March 23, 1980.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bean, Henry 1945 births Living people American male film actors American male screenwriters Male actors from Philadelphia Film directors from Pennsylvania 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors Jewish American male actors Jewish American novelists Screenwriters from Pennsylvania 21st-century American Jews