Born in New York City; educated at the Columbia School of Journalism. After working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for Pathé and CBS-TV, teamed with his wife Edna Anhalt (née Richards) during WW II to write pulp fiction. After the war, they graduated to writing screenplays for thrillers, beginning with BULLDOG DRUMMOND STRIKES BACK (1947). Anhalt proved himself a versatile, consistently effective (and reputedly speedy) scenarist, superb at contemporary urban thrillers (PANIC IN THE STREETS, 1950), war dramas (THE YOUNG LIONS, 1958), historical epics (BECKET, 1964) and much of everything in between, such as THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (1952, also assoc. producer), NOT AS A STRANGER (1955) and THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION (1957). On his own (or in collaboration with writers other than his wife), some of his non-nominated credits include GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! (1962), WIVES AND LOVERS (1963), BOEING BOEING (1965), THE BOSTON STRANGLER (1968), THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT (1969), JEREMIAH JOHNSON (1972), "QB VII" (TV mini-series, 1974), THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH (1975), LUTHER (1976), GREEN ICE (1981) and THE HOLCROFT COVENANT (1985). During the last years of his career, he worked mainly for television series and made-for-TV movies.  Writing (Motion Picture Story) 1950: PANIC IN THE STREETS (w. Edna Anhalt)  Nominated for Writing (Motion Picture Story) 1952: THE SNIPER (w. Edna Anhalt)  Writing (Best Screenplay based on material from another medium) 1964: BECKET 3 nominations, 2 Awards