Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)

Writer | Actor | Director

Dalton Trumbo, the Oscar-winning screenwriter, arguably the most talented, most famous of the ...

Born: December 9, 1905
Died: September 10, 1976 (age 70)

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Known For

Roman Holiday Writer (1953)
Johnny Got His Gun Writer (1971)
Spartacus Writer (1960)
Known For

Papillon Writer (2017)
Writer

Papillon (2017)
Johnny Got His Gun (2008)
Always (1989)
Roman Holiday (1987)
Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (1978)
Papillon (1973)
Executive Action (1973)
The Way We Were (1973)
FTA (1972)
The Horsemen (1971)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
The Fixer (1968)
Silahlar patlayinca (1966)
Hawaii (1966)
The Sandpiper (1965)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
The Last Sunset (1961)
Town Without Pity (1961)
Exodus (1960)
Spartacus (1960)
Career (1959)
Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
Cowboy (1958)
The Green-Eyed Blonde (1957)
The Deerslayer (1957)
The Brothers Rico (1957)
ITV Television Playhouse (1957)
The Brave One (1956)
The Boss (1956)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
They Were So Young (1954)
Carnival Story (1954)
Roman Holiday (1953)
He Ran All the Way (1951)
The Prowler (1951)
Emergency Wedding (1950)
Rocketship X-M (1950)
Gun Crazy (1950)
The Gangster (1947)
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
Jealousy (1945)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Tender Comrade (1943)
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
I Married a Witch (1942)
Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
The Remarkable Andrew (1942)
You Belong to Me (1941)
Accent on Love (1941)
Kitty Foyle (1940)
We Who Are Young (1940)
A Bill of Divorcement (1940)
Curtain Call (1940)
Half a Sinner (1940)
The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940)
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939)
Career (1939)
Five Came Back (1939)
The Kid from Kokomo (1939)
Sorority House (1939)
The Flying Irishman (1939)
A Man to Remember (1938)
Fugitives for a Night (1938)
Paradise for Three (1938)
Everybody Sing (1938)
That Man's Here Again (1937)
Devil's Playground (1937)
Tugboat Princess (1936)
Love Begins at Twenty (1936)
Writer

Road Gang (1936)
Actor

Papillon Commandant (1973)
Johnny Got His Gun Orator (1971)
Actor

The Prowler John Gilvray (1951)
Director

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Archive footage

The Movies (2019)
Trumbo (2015)
Imminent Threat (2015)
Nonfiction W (2013)
The Cost of Living: Creating the Prowler (2011)
Reagan (2011)
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010)
Hollywood contra Franco (2008)
Trumbo (2007)
Dalton Trumbo: Rebel in Hollywood (2006)
American Masters (2003)
Remembering 'Roman Holiday' (2002)
Cold War (1998)
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998)
The Fifties (1997)
Archive footage

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987)
Miscellaneous Crew

The Two-Headed Spy (1958)
Script and Continuity Department

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)

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Did You Know

Trivia

Met his wife Cleo in 1936 at the McDonnell's Drive-In at Cahuenga & Yucca in Los Angeles at the insistent of his screenwriter buddy Earl Felton.

I begin to realize why people believe that Hollywood corrupts writers. But they're quite wrong. All Hollywood does is give them enough money so they can get married and have kids like normal people. But it's the getting married and having kids that ...