Dalton Trumbo

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 UnAmerican Activities Committee HUAC in 1947 during the committees 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 Trumbos pseudonyms