Opera radio broadcasts announcer (class of 1915) George Cukor (1899–1983), film director (class of 1917) Countee Cullen (born Countee LeRoy Porter, 1903–1946), poet (class of 1922) Lloyd Cutler (1917–2005) attorney, counsel to US presidents (class of 1932) Pedro de Cordoba (1881–1950), actor (class of 1900) Charles DeLisi (born 1941), scientist, "often hailed as the father of the human genome project" (class of 1959) Peter De Rose, composer (class of 1917) Dean Dixon, first black conductor of the New York Philharmonic (class of 1932) DJ Red Alert, impresario (class of 1974) George Duvivier, bass player (class of 1937) Fred Ebb, lyricist (class of 1944) Will Eisner, "father of the modern graphic novel" (class of 1936) Eliot Elisofon, photographer (class of 1929) Eugene Emond, World War II B-17 pilot and Officer of the New York Federal Reserve (class of 1928) Edward S. Feldman, film producer, Witness, The Truman Show (class of 1944) Herbert Fields, playwright and screenwriter (class of 1916) Joseph Fields, playwright and screenwriter (class of 1913) Bill Finger, author, co-creator of Batman (class of 1933) Avery Fisher, electronics pioneer (class of 1924) Bernie Fliegel, early professional basketball player (class of 1934) Bruce Jay Friedman (born 1930), novelist, playwright and screenwriter Ace Frehley, KISS co-founder and lead guitarist (did not graduate) Budd Friedman, IMPROV founder (class of 1951) Julius J. Gans, lawyer, politician, and judge Frank D. Gilroy, Pulitzer Prize playwright (class of 1943) Leo Gottlieb, New York Knicks basketball player (class of 1938) George Graff Jr., songwriter, "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" (class of 1903) Bill Graham (1931–1991), rock promoter (class of 1949) Luther Green, NBA basketball player Adolph Green, lyricist, screenwriter (class of 1932) George Gregory Jr., first black All-American college basketball player; New York City official (class of 1927) George Gresham, president, 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East (class of 1973) Ernest A. Gross (1906–1999), diplomat (class of 1922) Sam Gross, cartoonist, New Yorker magazine (class of 1950) Gary Gubner, shotputter and weightlifter, Olympic athlete and world record holder (class of 1960) Jerry Harkness, professional basketball player and civil rights activist (class of 1959) Michael Hafftka, artist (class of 1971) Arnold Hano (born 1922), writer and editor (class of 1937) Hubert Harrison, writer, orator, editor, activist, and "father of Harlem Radicalism" Richard Heffner, creator and host of The Open Mind, historian, professor, editor of Democracy in America, and former chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America film