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James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including Roman Holiday (1953), Exodus, Spartacus (both 1960), and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944).
Dalton Trumbo. Writer: Roman Holiday. Dalton Trumbo, the Oscar-winning screenwriter, arguably the most talented, most famous of the blacklisted film professionals known to history as the Hollywood 10, was born in Montrose, Colorado to Orus Trumbo and his wife, the former Maud Tillery.
May 24, 2024 · Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist who was probably the most talented member of the Hollywood Ten, a group who refused to testify before the 1947 U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities about alleged communist involvement.
Jun 17, 2024 · He was a mainstream Hollywood screenwriter who was accused of spreading subversive ideas through his films, and imprisoned – yet Dalton Trumbo fought back, going on to win two Oscars.
Nov 6, 2015 · I n the new film Trumbo, Bryan Cranston plays the title character, Dalton Trumbo, one of the “Hollywood ten” blacklisted for refusing to cooperate with Congress’ anti-Communist witch...
Aug 20, 2018 · Dalton Trumbo (left) and fellow Hollywood Ten member John Howard Lawson just before their prison sentence begins in 1950. By. Heather Michon. Updated on August 20, 2018. “Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?”
Jun 17, 2008 · Dalton Trumbo, who wrote dozens of movies and the anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun, was accused of being tied to the Communist Party in the 1940s, refused to testify before Congress and was...
Dalton Trumbo was an American film and television screenwriter and novelist. He was one of the Hollywood Ten, the group of film professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the American motion picture industry.
Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun" seemed for years to be one of those novels that could never be made into a movie. It took place entirely within the mind of a soldier who was so grievously wounded in World War I that he had only the most tenuous contact with the world.
Oct 30, 2015 · Dalton Trumbo’s screenplays won Academy Awards during the period in which he was blacklisted by Hollywood studios. Tom Brook reports on a new film about his life.
