Albert Maltz
American writer (1908-1985) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 76
Albert Maltz was an American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the Hollywood Ten who were jailed in 1950 for their 1947 refusal to testify before the US Congress about their involvement with the Communist Party USA.
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- Delmer Daves Directed Destination Tokyo (1943)
Don Siegel Directed Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)- Frank Ross Produced The House I Live In and The Robe
- Julian Blaustein Produced Broken Arrow and The Beguiled
Sergei Eisenstein Directed Seeds of Freedom (1943)
Clint Eastwood Albert wrote Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Graham Greene Also in This Gun for Hire and Short Cut to Hell
Fritz Lang Directed Cloak and Dagger (1946)
Jules Dassin Directed The Naked City (1948)
John Garfield Albert wrote Pride of the Marines (1945)
Mervyn LeRoy Directed The House I Live In (1945)
Jack L. Warner Produced Destination Tokyo (1943)
Richard Thorpe Directed The Last Challenge (1967)
Marc Lawrence Albert wrote This Gun for Hire (1942)
Joyce Compton Albert wrote Mildred Pierce and Afraid to Talk
Frank Tuttle Directed This Gun for Hire (1942)
Sol Lesser Produced The Red House (1947)
W. R. Burnett Also in This Gun for Hire and Short Cut to Hell
Harry Shannon Albert wrote The Red House (1947)
Jerry Wald Produced Destination Tokyo (1943)
A. C. Lyles Produced Short Cut to Hell (1957)- Jennings Lang Produced The Beguiled (1971)
- Milton Sperling Produced Cloak and Dagger (1946)
- Hanus Burger Directed Seeds of Freedom (1943)
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"The Hollywood Ten" stand with their attorneys outside district court in Washington, D.C. before arraignment on contempt of Congress charges. The ten were charged for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.(Front row, L-R): Herbert Biberman, attorney Martin Popper, attorney Robert W. Kenny, Albert Maltz and Lester Cole.(Second row, L-R): Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie and Samuel Ornitz.(Top row, L-R): Ring Lardner Jr., Edward Dmytryk and Adrian Scott.Awards
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They and many other US entertainment industry figures were subsequently blacklisted, which denied Maltz employment in the industry for many years.
