Served as director of drama and music at Menlo School and Junior College in Menlo Park, California

Received first screenwriting credit for "The Shopworn Girl" adapted from Dana Burnet's story "Private Pettigrew's Girl"

Reportedly did uncredited work on the script of "The Philadelphia Story"

Adapted "The Wild Man of Borneo" from play by Marc Connelly and Herman Mankiewicz

Worked as consultant for US Army films

Was consultant for the Office of War Information, Overseas Film Bureau

Served as dialogue director in addition to scripting "The Flame and the Arrow"

Provided additional dialogue for "M"

Blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing to testify in Washington before the House Un-American Activities Committee

First screenwriting credit post-blacklist, "Taras Bulba", co-adapted with Karl Tunberg from the Nikolai Gogol novel

Collaborated on two screenplays for director Michael Anderson, "Flight from Ashiya" and "Wild and Wonderful"

Won Oscar for his "Midnight Cowboy" screenplay, based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy; first collaboration with director John Schlesinger

Adapted Jimmy Breslin's best-selling novel "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" for the screen

Shared Oscar nomination with Norman Wexler for the screenplay for "Serpico", based on Peter Maas' book

Reteamed with Schlesinger, adapting Nathanael West's novel "The Day of the Locust"

Received second Oscar for co-writing (with Robert C Jones and Nancy Dowd) the anti-war romantic drama "Coming Home"

Played cameo role as a male derelict in John Landis' "Into the Night"

Subject of Oscar-nominated documentary, "Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey"; aired on PBS in 1991