Dalton Trumbo
American screenwriter (1905-1976) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 70
James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), Roman Holiday (1953), Spartacus (1960), and Exodus (1960).
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Kirk Douglas Produced The Last Sunset (1961)
John Frankenheimer Directed The Fixer and The Horsemen
Wesley Ruggles Directed You Belong to Me (1941)
Joseph H. Lewis Directed Gun Crazy and Terror in a Texas Town
Peter Brocco Dalton directed Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Mary Treen Dalton produced You Belong to Me (1941)
Lloyd Bridges Dalton produced You Belong to Me (1941)
Van Johnson Also in Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
Tom Tryon Produced Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Charles McGraw Dalton directed Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Ernest Cossart Dalton wrote Kitty Foyle (1940)
Dorothy Morris Also in Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)- Eric Christmas Dalton directed Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Arthur Space Dalton wrote A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Martin Scorsese Directed American Masters
Paul Newman Dalton wrote Exodus (1960)
Henry Fonda Dalton produced You Belong to Me (1941)
Donald Sutherland Dalton directed Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Gene Hackman Dalton wrote Hawaii (1966)
Spencer Tracy Dalton wrote Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Jack Lemmon Dalton wrote Cowboy (1958)
William Wyler Directed Roman Holiday (1953)
Marsha Hunt Dalton directed Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Bill Raisch Dalton wrote Spartacus and Lonely Are the Brave
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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.
Trumbo's Ashland Penitentiary mugshot, June 9, 1950
Dalton Trumbo with wife Cleo at House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, 1947. German poet and Marxist Bertolt Brecht is visible in the background.Awards
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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.
