Dalton Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo

James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist 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 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 was, however, able to continue working clandestinely on major films, writing under pseudonyms or other authors' names. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dalton Trumbo has received more than 4,566,315 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Dalton Trumbo is the 1,064th most popular writer (down from 711th in 2019), the 1,211th most popular biography from United States (down from 736th in 2019) and the 123rd 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.