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Dalton Trumbo
James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), Roman Holiday (1953), Spartacus (1960), and Exodus (1960). 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.
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culture · American screenwriter (1905–1976) · screenwriter · writer · novelist · director · actor · film producer · film director · also Dalton Trumbo, Robert Rich, James Dalton Trumbo, Trumbo
Born 9 December 1905 · Died 10 September 1976 · Q350666
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2026· 2 entries
Atlas Obscura: James Dalton Trumbo Statue in Grand Junction
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2024· 1 entry
collider: Dalton Trumbo
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2016· 2 entries
Laweekly: A Brutal Dalton Trumbo Adaptation Turns Audience Members Into WWI Recruits
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More than a hundred years after his birth, Trumbo was honored by the installation of a statue of him in front of the Avalon Theater on Main Street in Grand Junction, Colorado, his home town
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2015· 1 entry
c-span: Life and Career of Dalton Trumbo
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2011· 3 entries
The Hollywood Reporter: WGA Restores Dalton Trumbo’s Screenwriting Credit on ‘Roman Holiday’
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Reuters: Dalton Trumbo, Dead Since 1976, Finally Gets His WGA Credit for 'Roman Holiday'
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Nearly 60 years after the fact, and 35 years after his death
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2009· 1 entry
At the home she shared with Mitzi Trumbo in Los Altos, California
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2008· 1 entry
Variety: Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun
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2006· 1 entry
Moviefone: Dalton Trumbo: Rebel in Hollywood (2006) - Where to Watch
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2003· 1 entry
Christopher Trumbo mounted an Off-Broadway play based on his father's letters, called Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, in which a wide variety of actors played his father during the run, including Nathan Lane, Tim Rob
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1993· 1 entry
Trumbo was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for writing Roman Holiday (1953)
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1976· 2 entries
Died 1976-09-10.
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In Los Angeles of a heart attack at the age of 70
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix for Johnny Got His Gun (1971).
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (1970).
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1960· 1 entry
It marked the beginning of the end of the Hollywood Blacklist for Trumbo and other affected screenwriters
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Story for The Brave One (1957).
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Story for Roman Holiday (1954).
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1950· 1 entry
“As far as I was concerned, it was a completely just verdict. I had contempt for that Congress and have had contempt for it ever since. And on the basis of guilt or innocence, I could never really complain very much. That this was a crime or misdemeanor was the complaint, my complaint.”
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1947· 1 entry
During the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry
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1941· 1 entry
Trumbo and his publisher decided to suspend reprinting Johnny Got His Gun until the end of the war
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded National Book Award (1939).
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1938· 1 entry
Trumbo married Cleo Fincher, who was born in Fresno, California, on July 17, 1916, and had moved with her divorced mother and her brother and sister to Los Angeles
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1924· 2 entries
And 1925, working as a reporter for the Boulder Daily Camera and contributing to the school's humor magazine, yearbook, and newspaper
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Orus Trumbo relocated the family to California
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1905· 2 entries
The son of Orus Bonham Trumbo and Maud (née Tillery) Trumbo
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Born 1905-12-09.
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