Nickname:	Julie
Known for:	Gentleman's Agreement, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Body and Soul
Birth name:	Jacob Julius Garfinkle
Birthday:	4 March 1913, New York, New York, USA
Height:	5' 7" (1.70 m)

Father of actors David Garfield and Julie Garfield. Comforted Sidney Poitier on his first plane ride by telling him to put a handkerchief over his face and think about nothing. Won a state-wide debating contest sponsored by the New York Times as a boy. Was producer Irene Mayer Selznick's first choice to play Stanley Kowalski in the Broadway premiere of "A Streetcar Named Desire." Wife Roberta Seidman was his childhood sweetheart. His 6-year old daughter Katharine died of an allergic reaction in 1945. Garfield never got over the loss. When his Warner Bros. contract expired in 1946, he did not re-sign with the studio, opting to start his own independent production company instead. He was one of the first Hollywood actors to do so. Blacklisted in the early 1950s for his left-wing sympathies, he refused to name names in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in April 1951. He was found dead of a heart attack in the apartment of a former showgirl on May 21, 1952, the day after Clifford Odets, testifying before HUAC, reaffirmed that Garfield had never been a member of the Communist Party. His funeral in New York was mobbed by 10,000 fans. Buried at Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York Is portrayed by Bruce Ornstein in Will There Really Be a Morning?

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