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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).
1944 was Trumbo’s breakthrough year as a screenwriter, nearly a decade on from his first screenwriting credit, as he wrote two extremely successful and – somewhat ironically, given what would happen to him less than five years later – patriotic films.
Jun 17, 2024 · When the BBC interviewed screenwriter Dalton Trumbo beside his Hollywood swimming pool in 1960, he had just written the scripts for two of the year's biggest movies.
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...
Nov 6, 2015 · He refuses to say what they were, but during the 1957 Academy Award ceremonies, Robert Rich was announced as the writer of the year’s best original screen play, The Brave One. No Robert Rich...
Oct 18, 2009 · Cleo Trumbo, the widow of Oscar-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted for more than a decade as a member of the Hollywood 10, has died. She was 93. Trumbo died of...
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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.
