Screenwriter Howard Koch moved to the United Kingdom after he was blacklisted in the 1950s for making a pro-Soviet film during WWII when Russia was our ally. By then he had already collaborated with Orson Welles on the 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" and with others on "Sergeant York" and "Casablanca" (for which he won an Oscar). His later career included the Steve McQueen film "The War Lover" and the D.H. Lawrence adaptation "The Fox." He died on August 17, 1995 in Woodstock, N.Y.
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