Dalton Trumbo

Known for WritingBorn 1905-12-09Died 1976-09-10Montrose, Colorado, USA

James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), Roman Holiday (1953), Spartacus (1960), and Exodus (1960). One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. Trumbo, the other members of the Hollywood Ten, and hundreds of other professionals in the industry were blacklisted by Hollywood. He continued working clandestinely on major films, writing under pseudonyms or other authors' names. His uncredited work won two Academy Awards for Best Story: for Roman Holiday (1953), which was presented to a front writer, and for The Brave One (1956), which was awarded to a pseudonym used by Trumbo. When he was given public screen credit for both Exodus and Spartacus in 1960, it marked the beginning of the end of the Hollywood Blacklist for Trumbo and other affected screenwriters. He finally was given full credit by the Writers' Guild for Roman Holiday in 2011, nearly 60 years after the fact, and 35 years after his death. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dalton Trumbo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Buñuel in Hollywood

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

A Day of My Life

The Real Charlie Chaplin

Papillon

Papillon

Metallica - 2 of One

Roman Holiday

Career

Tugboat Princess

Johnny Got His Gun

Spartacus

Lonely are the Brave

Gun Crazy

Accent on Love

Imminent Threat

The Remarkable Andrew

Ishi: The Last of His Tribe

He Ran All the Way

The Way We Were

Sorority House

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Curtain Call

Fugitives for a Night

A Bill of Divorcement

Town Without Pity

Johnny Got His Gun

The Last Sunset

That Man's Here Again

Road Gang

The Hollywood Ten

Exodus

I Married a Witch

The Prowler

Terror in a Texas Town

Career

Executive Action

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

The Lone Wolf Strikes

A Guy Named Joe

FTA

A Man to Remember

Always

Cowboy

The Sandpiper

The Horsemen

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

Kitty Foyle