Albert Maltz

Albert Maltz mɔːlts October 28 1908 April 26 1985 was an American playwright fiction writer and screenwriter He was one of the Hollywood Ten who were jailed in 1950 for their 1947 refusal to testify before the US Congress about their involvement with the Communist Party USA They and many other US entertainment industry figures were subsequently blacklisted which denied Maltz employment in the industry for many years