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Biography of Dalton Trumbo
Name: Dalton Trumbo
Birth Date: December 5, 1905
Death Date: September 10, 1976
Place of Birth: Montrose, Colorado, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: screenwriter, writer
Dalton Trumbo
Though he experienced success as a novelist and a screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) is best known as a member of a group he would have preferred never existed-the "Hollywood Ten." After refusing to cooperate during the House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings in the late 1940s, Trumbo and nine other screenwriters and directors were sent to jail and later blacklisted in Hollywood.Dalton Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colorado on December 5, 1905. His family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado when he was seven years old. As a boy, Trumbo was indifferent to all sports, and had no interest riding horses, a popular past time in his home state. His passions, reading and writing, were considered more intellectual. During his high school years, he secured a job as a cub reporter for the Grand Junction Sentinel, and covered everything from school and athletic news, to crime and obituaries.Depression YearsTrumbo went on to …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…time of the blacklist, and Hollywood was making up for its past injustices by acknowledging the uncredited writers and directors. In a formal ceremony, Trumbo received his 1956 Academy Award for best screenplay.Trumbo died of a heart attack on September 10, 1976, in Los Angeles. In 1992, his widow accepted a posthumous award from the Writer's Guild of America for Roman Holiday. Further Reading Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962, edited by Helen Manfull, M. Evans and Company, 1970.Cook, Bruce, Dalton Trumbo, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977.Navasky, Victor S. Naming Names, The Viking Press, 1980.Los Angeles Times, March 25, 1992.Time, May 24, 1993."Dalton Trumbo," Books and Writers website, http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/trumbo.htm (March 11, 2001). "Dalton Trumbo," The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), http://www.imdb.com (March 25, 2001)."Dalton Trumbo," Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtrumbo.htm (December 11, 2000)."Dalton Trumbo," Suite101.com website, http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/directors_corner/25828 (March 11, 2001).
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