Dalton Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) was a screenwriter and occasional novelist (notably Johnny Got His Gun). While he wrote screenplays for many Hollywood films between 1936 and 1944 (including Kitty Foyle with Ginger Rogers and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo), he was blacklisted for his membership in the Communist party and was one of the Hollywood Ten screenwriters who refused to appear before the HUAC.
Trumbo continued to work occasionally using fronts or pseudonyms, including the Academy Award-winning screenplay for The Brave One (1956). In 1960, he received screen credit for both Exodus and Spartacus and was able to continue working into the 1970s.
The writer was the subject of the 2015 biopic Trumbo, with a supporting cast including Helen Mirren, John Goodman, Richard Portnow, Stephen Root, and Roger Bart.
==References==
*In the second part of the Dinosaurs story "Nuts to War", Howard Handupme reads the surnames of individuals targeted for disagreeing with the government's war reports. It mostly consists of McCarthy era blacklist victims, including Trumbo. 
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