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Dalton Trumbo

1905–1976 · American screenwriter

James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning 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 Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.

Dalton Trumbo, in order

  1. 1936 Love Begins at 20: wrote · directed by Frank McDonald
  2. 1936 Road Gang: wrote · directed by Louis King
  3. 1937 The Devil's Playground: wrote · directed by Erle C. Kenton
  4. 1937 Thoroughbreds Don't Cry: wrote · directed by Alfred Edward Green
  5. 1938 A Man to Remember: wrote · directed by Garson Kanin
  6. 1938 Fugitives for a Night: wrote · directed by Leslie Goodwins
  7. 1939 Five Came Back: wrote · directed by John Farrow
  8. 1939 Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence: wrote · directed by Ricardo Cortez
  9. 1939 Sorority House: wrote · directed by John Farrow
  10. 1940 A Bill of Divorcement: wrote · directed by John Farrow
  11. 1940 Curtain Call: wrote · directed by Frank Woodruff
  12. 1940 Kitty Foyle: wrote · directed by Sam Wood
  13. 1940 We Who Are Young: wrote · directed by Harold S. Bucquet
  14. 1941 Accent on Love: wrote · directed by Ray McCarey
  15. 1941 You Belong to Me: wrote, produced · directed by Wesley Ruggles
  16. 1942 I Married a Witch: wrote · directed by René Clair
  17. 1942 The Remarkable Andrew: wrote · directed by Stuart Heisler
  18. 1943 A Guy Named Joe: wrote · directed by Victor Fleming · critics 60%, audiences 73% · streaming on Kanopy
  19. 1943 Tender Comrade: wrote · directed by Edward Dmytryk · audiences 38%
  20. 1944 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo: wrote · directed by Mervyn LeRoy · critics 100%, audiences 74% · streaming on Hoopla, Plex, Tubi
  21. 1945 Jealousy: wrote · directed by Gustav Machatý
  22. 1945 Our Vines Have Tender Grapes: wrote · directed by Roy Rowland
  23. 1947 The Gangster: wrote · directed by Gordon Wiles
  24. 1950 Gun Crazy: wrote · directed by Joseph H. Lewis
  25. 1950 Rocketship X-M: wrote · directed by Kurt Neumann
  26. 1951 He Ran All the Way: wrote · directed by John Berry
  27. 1951 The Prowler: wrote, acted · directed by Joseph Losey
  28. 1953 Roman Holiday: wrote · directed by William Wyler
  29. 1954 Carnival Story: wrote · directed by Kurt Neumann
  30. 1955 The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell: wrote · directed by Otto Preminger
  31. 1956 The Boss: wrote · directed by Byron Haskin
  32. 1956 The Brave One: wrote · directed by Irving Rapper
  33. 1957 The Brothers Rico: wrote · directed by Phil Karlson
  34. 1957 The Deerslayer: wrote · directed by Kurt Neumann
  35. 1957 The Green-Eyed Blonde: wrote · directed by Bernard Girard
  36. 1958 Cowboy: wrote · directed by Delmer Daves
  37. 1958 Terror in a Texas Town: wrote · directed by Joseph H. Lewis
  38. 1959 Career: wrote · directed by Joseph Anthony
  39. 1960 Exodus: wrote · directed by Otto Preminger
  40. 1960 Spartacus: wrote · directed by Stanley Kubrick · critics 89%, audiences 87% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  41. 1961 The Last Sunset: wrote · directed by Robert Aldrich
  42. 1961 Town Without Pity: wrote · directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
  43. 1962 Lonely Are the Brave: wrote · directed by David Miller and Kirk Douglas
  44. 1965 The Sandpiper: wrote · directed by Vincente Minnelli
  45. 1966 Hawaii: wrote · directed by George Roy Hill
  46. 1968 The Fixer: wrote · directed by John Frankenheimer · critics 56%, audiences 58%
  47. 1971 Johnny Got His Gun: directed, wrote
  48. 1971 The Horsemen: wrote · directed by John Frankenheimer · critics 30%, audiences 52%
  49. 1973 Executive Action: wrote · directed by David Miller
  50. 1973 Papillon: wrote, acted · directed by Franklin J. Schaffner · critics 73%, audiences 90% · streaming on Kanopy, Plex, Tubi
  51. 1973 The Way We Were: wrote · directed by Sydney Pollack · critics 64%, audiences 81%
  52. 1986 American Masters (TV series): acted · directed by Charles Atlas and Christian Blackwood
  53. 1987 Roman Holiday (TV movie): wrote · directed by Noel Nosseck
  54. 1989 Always: wrote · directed by Steven Spielberg · critics 72%, audiences 58% · streaming on YouTube (free)
  55. 2007 Trumbo: acted · directed by Peter Askin
  56. 2011 Reagan: acted · directed by Eugene Jarecki · audiences 88% · streaming on Prime Video
  57. 2015 Trumbo: acted · directed by Jay Roach · critics 74%, audiences 79% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Fandango at Home (free)