Dalton Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, one of group of film professionals who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. Though only convicted of contempt of Congress, he was blacklisted and in 1950 spent 11 months in prison.

Works

Selected film works:

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• Road Gang, 1936
• Love Begins at 20, 1936
• Devil's Playground, 1937
• Fugitives for a Night, 1938
• A Man to Remember, 1938
• Five Come Back, 1939 (with Nathaneil West and J. Cody)
• Curtain Call, 1941
• Bill of Divorcement, 1940
• Kitty Foyle, 1940
• The Remarkable Andrew, 1942
• Tender Comrade, 1944
• A Guy Named Joe, 1944
• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, 1944
• Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, 1945
• Gun Crazy, 1950 (co-writer, front Millard Kaufman)
• Roman Holiday, 1953 (front Ian McLellan Hunter)
• The Brave One, 1956 (front Robert Rich)
• Spartacus, 1960, dir. by Stanley Kubrick
• Exodus, 1960 (a film based on Leon Uris's novel by the same name, 1958)
• The Last Sunset, 1961
• Lonely are the Brave, 1962
• The Sandpiper, 1965
• Hawaii, 1966 (based on the novel by James Michener, 1959)
• The Fixer, 1968
• Johnny Got His Gun, 1971 (also dir.)
• The Horsemen, 1971
• F.T.A, 1972
• Executive Action, 1973
• Papillon, 1973 (based on the novel by Henri Charrière, 1969)

Novels, plays and essays:

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• Eclipse, 1935
• Washington Jitters, 1936
• Johnny Got His Gun, 1939
• The Remarkable Andrew, 1940
• Chronicle of a Literal Man, 1941
• The Biggest Thief in Town, 1949 (play)
• The Time Out of the Toad, 1972 (essays)
• Night of the Aurochs, 1979 (unfinished, ed. R. Kirsch)

Non-fiction:

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• Harry Bridges, 1941
• The Time of the Toad, 1949
• The Devil in the Book, 1956
• ', 1942-62, 1970 (ed. by H. Manfull)