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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 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 continued working clandestinely on major films, writing under pseudonyms or other authors' names. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dalton Trumbo is the 1,011th most popular writer (down from 712th in 2019), the 1,427th most popular biography from United States (down from 785th in 2019) and the 115th 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 1,011 out of 7,302. Before him are Ouyang Xiu, E. M. Forster, Henri Troyat, Nellie Bly, Ed Bradley, and Lyudmila Ulitskaya. After him are Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Khachatur Abovian, André Bazin, Yosa Buson, Fyodor Tyutchev, and Nicolas Chamfort.

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Among people born in 1905, Dalton Trumbo ranks 42. Before him are Michael Powell, Marian Rejewski, Helen Wills, Jean Vigo, Carl Gustav Hempel, and Shojiro Sugimura. After him are Severo Ochoa, Franz Ziereis, Enrique Ballestrero, Angelo Schiavio, Takashi Shimura, and Lale Andersen. Among people deceased in 1976, Dalton Trumbo ranks 44. Before him are Benjamin Graham, João Goulart, René Cassin, Andrei Grechko, Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, and Josef Albers. After him are George Ostrogorsky, Murtala Mohammed, Paul Lazarsfeld, Mukesh, Yukio Goto, and Lin Yutang.

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Among people born in United States, Dalton Trumbo ranks 1,427 out of 20,380. Before him are Jeremy Renner (1971), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917), Nellie Bly (1864), Ed Bradley (1941), Don Cherry (1936), and Cass Elliot (1941). After him are Pat Carroll (1927), Alonzo Church (1903), Robin Wright (1966), Gina Haspel (1956), Charles G. Dawes (1865), and Eleanor H. Porter (1868).

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Among writers born in United States, Dalton Trumbo ranks 115. Before him are Raymond Carver (1938), Sherwood Anderson (1876), Thomas Wolfe (1900), John Grisham (1955), Nellie Bly (1864), and Ed Bradley (1941). After him are Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Mary Higgins Clark (1927), Clifford D. Simak (1904), William Gibson (1948), Thomas Pynchon (1937), and Edith Wharton (1862).

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