Henry Bean

Wrote and directed The Believer (2001), a story of a Jewish neo-Nazi skinhead that resists making its subject a simple villain — a difficult premise that Bean, having written it, ended up directing himself. His screenplays for Internal Affairs and Deep Cover, the latter of which he also produced, are tighter genre work: two of the more respected studio thrillers of their decade. He also acted in The Believer and worked as a novelist alongside screenwriting.