Dalton Trumbo

James Dalton Trumbo December 9 1905 September 10 1976 was an American screenwriter who scripted many awardwinning 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 UnAmerican Activities Committee HUAC in 1947 during the committees investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry Trumbo the other members of the Hollywood Ten and hundreds of other professionals in the industry were blacklisted by Hollywood He continued working clandestinely on major films writing under pseudonyms or other authors names His uncredited work won two Academy Awards for Best Story for Roman Holiday 1953 which was presented to a front writer and for The Brave One 1956 which was awarded to a pseudonym used by Trumbo When he was given public screen credit for both Exodus and Spartacus in 1960 it marked the beginning of the end of the Hollywood Blacklist for Trumbo and other affected screenwriters He finally was given full credit by the Writers Guild for Roman Holiday in 2011 nearly 60 years after the fact and 35 years after his death Description above from the Wikipedia article Dalton Trumbo licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia