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Dalton Trumbo

1905 - 1976

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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). 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 alleged 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dalton Trumbo has received more than 5,739,545 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Dalton Trumbo is the 713th most popular writer (up from 754th in 2019), the 785th most popular biography from United States (up from 889th in 2019) and the 75th most popular American Writer.

Dalton Trumbo was a Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He was one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of writers and directors who were called before the HUAC in 1947 and questioned about their involvement with the Communist Party. Trumbo was one of the few who refused to answer any questions.

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Among writers, Dalton Trumbo ranks 713 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Agathias, Oliver Sacks, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, Ivan Krylov, and Nonnus. After him are Veronica Franco, Alain-René Lesage, Milorad Pavić, Alfred de Vigny, Emilio Salgari, and Julius Fučík.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Dalton Trumbo ranks 29. Before him are Artem Mikoyan, Emilio Segrè, Gerard Kuiper, Władysław Gomułka, Raymond Cattell, and Carl Gustav Hempel. After him are Ulf von Euler, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Marian Rejewski, Max Schmeling, Otto Preminger, and Dhyan Chand. Among people deceased in 1976, Dalton Trumbo ranks 32. Before him are Choe Yong-gon, Trofim Lysenko, Gustav Heinemann, Alexander Calder, Rudolf Bultmann, and Juscelino Kubitschek. After him are Benjamin Graham, Lars Onsager, Émile Benveniste, Anneliese Michel, Tove Ditlevsen, and Andrei Grechko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dalton Trumbo ranks 785 out of 20,380. Before him are Jim Jones (1931), Brandon Lee (1965), Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), Joe DiMaggio (1914), Robert Hofstadter (1915), and Robert McNamara (1916). After him are Judith Butler (1956), Antony Blinken (1962), Mark Hamill (1951), Marvin Gaye (1939), Bill Russell (1934), and Douglass North (1920).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Dalton Trumbo ranks 75. Before him are Irwin Shaw (1913), H. L. Mencken (1880), Truman Capote (1924), Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867), Jack Vance (1916), and Louise Hay (1926). After him are William Saroyan (1908), Robert E. Howard (1906), John Dos Passos (1896), Robert Ludlum (1927), Thomas Harris (1940), and Neal Cassady (1926).

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