Dalton Trumbo

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AKA: Robert Rich, Ian McLellan Hunter, Millard Kaufman, James Dalton Trumbo
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 12/09/1905
Birthplace: Montrose, Colorado, USA
Death Date: 09/10/1976

biography

Journalist who turned to screenwriting in the mid-1930s and became one of the "Hollywood Ten" some fifteen years later. Jailed for ten months because of his refusal to cooperate with HUAC and subsequently blacklisted, Trumbo nonetheless turned out a substantial number of screenplays under various pseudonyms, notably "The Brave One" (1956) as Robert Rich, which won an Oscar for Best Writing (Motion Picture Story). Years later, in 1991, it came out that another writer fronted for Trumbo and that he was entitled to another Oscar for his work on "Roman Holiday" (1953).

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Credits

screenplay
1972
novel extract
1972
Director
1971
Source Material (from novel)
1971
screenplay
1971
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1965
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1962
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1960
From Story
1953
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milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Employed as manual worker until VANITY FAIR magazine published first short story
1936 
Wrote first screenplays: "Love Begins at 20", "Road Gang", and "Tugboat Princess"
1939 
First novel, "Johnny Got His Gun", published
1971 
Film directing debut, "Johnny Got His Gun"
1973 
Underwent surgery for lung cancer

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