Dalton Trumbo
Writing
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.
Known for
Writing58
moviePapillon
2017
Original Film Writer
movieAlways
1989
Original Film Writer
movieRoman Holiday
1987
Original Film Writer
moviePapillon
1973
Screenplay
movieExecutive Action
1973
Screenplay
movieFTA
1972
Writer
movieThe Horsemen
1971
Screenplay
movieJohnny Got His Gun
1971
Screenplay, Novel
movieThe Fixer
1968
Screenplay
movieHawaii
1966
Screenplay
movieThe Sandpiper
1965
Screenplay
movieLonely are the Brave
1962
Screenplay
movieThe Last Sunset
1961
Screenplay
movieExodus
1960
Screenplay
movieSpartacus
1960
Screenplay
movieTerror in a Texas Town
1958
Screenplay
movieCowboy
1958
Screenplay
movieThe Deerslayer
1957
Screenplay
movieThe Brothers Rico
1957
Screenplay
movieThe Brave One
1956
Story, Screenplay
movieRoman Holiday
1953
Story, Screenplay
movieHe Ran All the Way
1951
Screenplay
movieThe Prowler
1951
Screenplay
movieGun Crazy
1950
Screenplay
movieOur Vines Have Tender Grapes
1945
Screenplay
movieJealousy
1945
Story
movieThirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1944
Screenplay
movieTender Comrade
1944
Writer
movieA Guy Named Joe
1944
Screenplay
movieThe Remarkable Andrew
1942
Screenplay
movieKitty Foyle
1940
Screenplay
movieWe Who Are Young
1940
Screenplay
movieCurtain Call
1940
Screenplay
movieHeaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
1939
Screenplay, Story
movieCareer
1939
Writer
movieFive Came Back
1939
Screenplay
movieSorority House
1939
Screenplay
movieThe Flying Irishman
1939
Screenplay
movieA Man to Remember
1938
Screenplay
movieFugitives for a Night
1938
Screenplay
movieLove Begins at Twenty
1936
Screenplay
movieRoad Gang
1936
Screenplay
Acting9
movieThe Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
Self (archive footage)
movieImminent Threat
2015
Self (archive footage)
movieBuñuel in Hollywood
2000
Self (archive footage)
movieThe First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
Self (archive footage)
moviePapillon
1973
Commandant (uncredited)
movieThe Prowler
1951
John Gilvray's Voice (voice) (uncredited)
Crew2
movieThe Way We Were
1973
Additional Writing
movieI Married a Witch
1942
Additional Writing
Directing2
movieMetallica - 2 of One
1989
Director
movieJohnny Got His Gun
1971
Director