Dalton Trumbo was an American film and television screenwriter and novelist. He was one of the Hollywood Ten, the group of film professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the American motion picture industry. While blacklisted and not permitted to work, he won two Academy Awards in the category "Best Writing" for "Roman Holiday", originally given to front writer Ian McLellan Hunter, and for "The Brave One", awarded to Robert Rich, one of Trumbo's pseudonyms.
Academy Awards
Best Story
Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix
Grand Prix
Known For
Spartacus
(1960)
Screenplay
Roman Holiday
(1953)
Story and Screenplay
Papillon
(2017)
Original Film Writer
Papillon
(1973)
Screenplay
Always
(1989)
Original Film Writer
Exodus
(1960)
Screenplay
Lonely Are the Brave
(1962)
Screenplay
Gun Crazy
(1950)
Screenplay
A Guy Named Joe
(1943)
Screenplay
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
(1944)
Screenplay
Cowboy
(1958)
Screenplay
The Last Sunset
(1961)
Screenplay
Kitty Foyle
(1940)
Screenplay
The Brothers Rico
(1957)
Screenplay
The Prowler
(1951)
Screenplay
Hawaii
(1966)
Screenplay
Full Filmography
Writing
Tugboat Princess
(1936)
Story
Road Gang
(1936)
Screenplay
Love Begins at Twenty
(1936)
Screenplay
That Man's Here Again
(1937)
Writer
Devil's Playground
(1937)
Writer
Fugitives for a Night
(1938)
Screenplay
A Man to Remember
(1938)
Screenplay
The Kid from Kokomo
(1939)
Story
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
(1939)
Story and Screenplay
Sorority House
(1939)
Screenplay
Five Came Back
(1939)
Screenplay
The Flying Irishman
(1939)
Screenplay
Career
(1939)
Writer
Half a Sinner
(1940)
Story
We Who Are Young
(1940)
Screenplay
The Lone Wolf Strikes
(1940)
Story
Curtain Call
(1940)
Screenplay
A Bill of Divorcement
(1940)
Writer
Kitty Foyle
(1940)
Screenplay
You Belong to Me
(1941)
Story
Somewhere I'll Find You
(1942)
Writer
The Remarkable Andrew
(1942)
Screenplay
A Guy Named Joe
(1943)
Screenplay
Tender Comrade
(1944)
Writer
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
(1944)
Screenplay
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
(1945)
Screenplay
Jealousy
(1945)
Story
Gun Crazy
(1950)
Screenplay
Emergency Wedding
(1950)
Story
The Prowler
(1951)
Screenplay
He Ran All the Way
(1951)
Screenplay
Roman Holiday
(1953)
Story and Screenplay
The Brave One
(1956)
Story and Screenplay
The Deerslayer
(1957)
Screenplay
The Brothers Rico
(1957)
Screenplay
The Green-Eyed Blonde
(1957)
Writer
Cowboy
(1958)
Screenplay
Terror in a Texas Town
(1958)
Screenplay
Career
(1959)
Writer
Exodus
(1960)
Screenplay
Spartacus
(1960)
Screenplay
The Last Sunset
(1961)
Screenplay
A Day of My Life
(1961)
Story
Lonely Are the Brave
(1962)
Screenplay
The Sandpiper
(1965)
Screenplay
Hawaii
(1966)
Screenplay
The Fixer
(1968)
Screenplay
The Horsemen
(1971)
Screenplay
Johnny Got His Gun
(1971)
Novel and Screenplay
FTA
(1972)
Writer
Executive Action
(1973)
Screenplay
Papillon
(1973)
Screenplay
Ishi: The Last of His Tribe
(1978)
Writer
Roman Holiday
(1987)
Original Film Writer
Always
(1989)
Original Film Writer
Johnny Got His Gun
(2008)
Writer
Papillon
(2017)
Original Film Writer
Acting
The Hollywood Ten
(1950)
Self
The Prowler
(1951)
John Gilvray's Voice (voice) (uncredited)
Johnny Got His Gun
(1971)
Orator
Papillon
(1973)
Commandant (uncredited)
Dalton Trumbo: Rebel in Hollywood
(2006)
Himself
Trumbo
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
A War in Hollywood
(2009)
Self (archive footage)
Imminent Threat
(2015)
Self (archive footage)
Trumbo
(2015)
Himself (archive footage)
Crew
Directing