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
Exodus
(1960)
Screenplay
Cowboy
(1958)
Screenplay
Always
(1989)
Original Film Writer
Johnny Got His Gun
(1971)
Novel and Screenplay
Lonely Are the Brave
(1962)
Screenplay
Gun Crazy
(1950)
Screenplay
The Last Sunset
(1961)
Screenplay
Hawaii
(1966)
Screenplay
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
(1944)
Screenplay
The Sandpiper
(1965)
Screenplay
Kitty Foyle
(1940)
Screenplay
Full Filmography
Writing
Love Begins at Twenty
(1936)
Screenplay
Road Gang
(1936)
Screenplay
Tugboat Princess
(1936)
Story
Devil's Playground
(1937)
Writer
That Man's Here Again
(1937)
Writer
A Man to Remember
(1938)
Screenplay
Fugitives for a Night
(1938)
Screenplay
Five Came Back
(1939)
Screenplay
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
(1939)
Story and Screenplay
Sorority House
(1939)
Screenplay
The Flying Irishman
(1939)
Screenplay
Career
(1939)
Writer
The Kid from Kokomo
(1939)
Story
Curtain Call
(1940)
Screenplay
Kitty Foyle
(1940)
Screenplay
A Bill of Divorcement
(1940)
Writer
Half a Sinner
(1940)
Story
The Lone Wolf Strikes
(1940)
Story
We Who Are Young
(1940)
Screenplay
You Belong to Me
(1941)
Story
The Remarkable Andrew
(1942)
Screenplay
Somewhere I'll Find You
(1942)
Writer
A Guy Named Joe
(1943)
Screenplay
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
(1944)
Screenplay
Tender Comrade
(1944)
Writer
Jealousy
(1945)
Story
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
(1945)
Screenplay
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 Green-Eyed Blonde
(1957)
Writer
The Brothers Rico
(1957)
Screenplay
The Deerslayer
(1957)
Screenplay
Cowboy
(1958)
Screenplay
Terror in a Texas Town
(1958)
Screenplay
Career
(1959)
Writer
Spartacus
(1960)
Screenplay
Exodus
(1960)
Screenplay
The Last Sunset
(1961)
Screenplay
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
Papillon
(1973)
Screenplay
Executive Action
(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