Henry Bean

Henry Bean

Known for

Writing

Born

August 3, 1945 (age 81)

Birthplace

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Henry Bean (born 1945, Philadelphia, United States) is an American screenwriter, film director, producer, novelist, and actor.

Most famous as a screenwriter, Bean wrote the screenplays for Internal Affairs, Deep Cover, Venus Rising, The Believer (which was awarded the dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Festival), Basic Instinct 2 and Noise.

Bean acted in The Believer, and was a producer on Deep Cover and Noise. He was the director for The Believer and Noise.

Bean is also the inspiration for the main protagonist of Noise. He was so tired of constant noise around him and his home in New York that he decided to take the law into his own han...

Best known work

The OA
The OA
2016
Basic Instinct 2
Basic Instinct 2
2006
From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity
1953
The Believer
The Believer
2001
Internal Affairs
Internal Affairs
1990
Deep Cover
Deep Cover
1992
Noise
Noise
2007
A Couch in New York
A Couch in New York
1996
Golden Eighties
Golden Eighties
1986
Ryan Gosling: Hollywood's Demigod
Ryan Gosling: Hollywood's Demigod
2018

Filmography

  1. 2018

    Ryan Gosling: Hollywood's Demigod

    as Self

  2. 2016

    The OATV

    Writer

  3. 2007

    Noise

    Screenplay, Producer, Director

  4. 2006

  5. 2003

    K StreetTV

    Executive Producer

  6. 2001

    The Believer

    as Ilio Manzetti, Director, Screenplay, Story

  7. 1996

  8. 1995

    Venus Rising

    as Customer in Bar, Story

  9. 1992

    Deep Cover

    Screenplay, Producer

  10. 1990

  11. 1986

  12. 1983

  13. 1977

  14. 1953

    From Here to Eternity

    as Minor Role (uncredited)

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