# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ring-lardner-jr
# Generated: 2026-09-03T15:08:34.811Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ring-lardner-jr"
name: "Ring Lardner Jr."
slug: "ring-lardner-jr"
description: "Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Jr. was an American screenwriter and novelist. After enjoying early success in Hollywood, he was subpoenaed in 1947 by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), where he refused to answer whether he was a member of the Communist Party. He was declared in contempt of Congress, blacklisted by the film studios as one of the \"Hollywood Ten\", and sentenced to a year in federal prison. Lardner's next screenplay credit, using his own name, was not until The Cincinnati Kid in 1965. He went on to win an Academy Award for his M*A*S*H (1970) screenplay."
tagline: "American screenwriter (1915–2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1947_Ring_Lardner_Jr._(Ringgold_Wilmer_Lardner_Jr.)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-08-19"
deathDate: "2000-10-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.081495098039216
  historical:           13.46354533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0488057/"
    handle:    "nm0488057"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump