Dalton Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo (born December 9, 1905, Montrose, Colorado; died September 10, 1976, Los Angeles) had an impressive list of Hollywood writing credits, though he may be best remembered for being blacklisted.  He wrote Kitty Foyle (1939) and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1940), among other credits. In 1940, he also wrote the classic antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun (years later, he wrote and directed a film adaptation). In 1947, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, became one of the Hollywood Ten and was blacklisted. He continued to work on such films as Roman Holiday (1953) but always uncredited. The Hollywood Blacklist was finally broken when Otto Preminger announced Trumbo would receive onscreen credit as screenwriter for Exodus (1960), followed quickly by Kirk Douglas announcing a similar credit for Trumbo as the writer for Spartacus (also 1960). Trumbo was Golden Globes nominated for scripting The Fixer (1968). Brian Cranston starred as him in the 2015 biopic Trumbo.