- Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 - September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. Born in Montrose, Colorado, Trumbo attended the University of Colorado for two years. The central fountain at the University was named in his honor in the mid-1990s. - Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan was a Greek-American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and cofounder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947. - Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 61 years, writing a wide variety of plays, including celebrated plays such as "The Crucible", "A View from the Bridge", "All My Sons", and "Death of a Salesman", which are still studied and performed worldwide. - Ring Lardner Jr.
Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner Jr. was an American journalist and Oscar winning screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. - Jules Dassin
Jules Dassin (born Julius Dassin on December 18, 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut) is an American film director. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist. One of eight children of a Russian-Jewish barber, Dassin started as a Yiddish actor with the ARTEF ("Yiddish Proletarian Theater") company in New York, but became well-known for his noir films "Brute Force", "The Naked City", and "Thieves' Highway" in the 1940s. - Lee J. Cobb
Lee J. Cobb (December 8, 1911 - February 11, 1976) was an American actor. Born Leo Jacoby to a Jewish family in New York City, Cobb studied at New York University before making his film debut in "The Vanishing Shadow" (1934). He joined the Manhattan-based left wing Group Theatre in 1935. He probably is known best for creating the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's 1949 play "Death of a Salesman" under the direction of Elia Kazan. - Budd Schulberg
Budd Schulberg was born in New York City, New York on March 27, 1914. His father, Benjamin P. Schulberg , a producer in the newly erected motion-picture industry, moved the family to Hollywood, California after WWI. By 1925, as general manager of Paramount Famous-Lasky studio, Benjamin P. Schulberg was one of the most powerful forces in the movie industry. Schulberg's mother, Adeline (Jaffe) Schulberg , aspired to raise him with traditional Jewish values. - Frank Wilkinson
Frank Wilkinson was a civil liberties activist, Executive Director Emeritus of the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation and Executive Director of the First Amendment Foundation. A lifelong progressive political activist, Wilkinson was caught up in the McCarthy Era when he defended a major public housing project, Elysian Park Heights, for the Chávez Ravine section of Los Angeles. Instead, Dodger Stadium eventually occupied the site. - Larry Parks
Larry Parks (13 December 1914, Olathe, Kansas - 13 April 1975, Studio City, California), was an American stage and movie actor. His career was virtually ended when he admitted to having once been a member of a Communist party cell, an admission that led to his blacklisting by all Hollywood studios. Parks grew up in Joliet, Illinois, and graduated from Joliet Township High School in 1932. He attended the University of Illinois as a pre-med student, … - Alvah Bessie
Alvah Bessie (June 4, 1904 - July 21, 1985) was a New York City-born American novelist, journalist and screenwriter who was imprisoned for ten months and blacklisted by the movie studio bosses for being one of the group known as the Hollywood Ten. Educated at Columbia University, he fought as a volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. In 1946 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for the film, "Objective, … - Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, U.S.N.R. Commander (May 21, 1904 - September 27, 1981) was an American actor and director. Born Henry Montgomery Jr. in Beacon, New York, his early childhood was one of privilege, since his father was President of the New York Rubber Company. When his father died, the family's fortune was gone, and young Robert went to New York City to try his hand at writing and acting. Sharing a stage with George Cukor gave him an in to Hollywood, … - John Randolph
John Randolph (June 1, 1915 - February 24, 2004) was a prolific Tony Award-winning American film, television and stage actor. - Betty Garrett
Betty Garrett (May 23, 1919, St. Joseph, Missouri) is an American actress and dancer who belonged to the golden era of the movie musical. However, she is probably best known for a pair of roles in two prominent 1970s sitcoms. In late 1973, she joined the cast of "All in the Family", playing Archie Bunker's socially liberal next-door neighbor, Irene Lorenzo, a role she would remain in until her character was phased out in late 1975. - J. William Fulbright
James William Fulbright (April 9, 1905-February 9, 1995) was a well-known member of the United States Senate representing Arkansas. Fulbright was a Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist, supported racial segregation, supported the creation of the United Nations and opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. He is perhaps best remembered for his efforts to establish an international exchange program, which thereafter bore his name, … - Josh White
Joshua Daniel White, best known as Josh White, was a legendary American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist. Today, he is widely remembered for his powerful and highly sensual stage presence, while some still remember that he almost single-handedly introduced Negro folk, blues, and gospel music to a world audience in the 1940s. - Dore Schary
Isidore 'Dore' Schary (August 31, 1905, Newark, New Jersey - July 7, 1980, New York City) was an American motion picture director, writer, and producer, and playwright. Schary worked in Hollywood, California and in 1938 won the Academy Award for Best Story as co-writer of the screenplay for the film, "Boys Town". He was with RKO Pictures when in 1948 he became chief of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios and, … - Marc Lawrence
Marc Lawrence (February 17, 1910 - November 28, 2005) was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types. Lawrence was born Max Goldsmith in the Bronx to a Russian Jewish father and a Polish Jewish mother. He participated in plays in school, then attended the City College of New York. In 1930, Lawrence befriended another young actor, John Garfield. - Francis E. Walter
Francis Eugene Walter (May 26 1894 - May 31 1963) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Francis Walter was born in Easton, Pennsylvania. He attended Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and George Washington University and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. During both World War I and World War II he served in the air service of the United States Navy. - Canada Lee
Canada Lee, born Lionel Cornelius Canegata, (March 3, 1907- May 9, 1952) was an American actor who pioneered roles for African Americans. A champion of civil rights in the 1930s and '40s, he died shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Coming to acting after careers as a jockey, boxer, and musician, Lee furthered the African-American tradition in theater pioneered by such older actors as Paul Robeson. - Lloyd Gough
Lloyd Gough (September 21, 1907 - July 23, 1984) was an American theater, film, and television actor. Born in New York City, New York, Gough was noted as a character actor who specialised in supporting roles. His films include "The Babe Ruth Story" (1947), "Roseanne McCoy" (1949), "Sunset Boulevard" (1950), "Storm Warning" (1951), "Tony Rome" (1967), and "Earthquake" (1974). - Vincent Sherman
Vincent Sherman, born in Vienna, Georgia), USA, was a Hollywood director. His movies include "Mr. Skeffington" (1944), "Nora Prentiss" (1947), and "The Young Philadelphians" (1959). He began his career as an actor on Broadway and later films. He directed B-movies for Warner Bros. before moving up to A-pictures. He was a good friend of actor Errol Flynn, whom he directed in "Adventures of Don Juan" (1949). - William P. Rogers
William Pierce Rogers (June 23, 1913 - January 2, 2001) was an American politician, who served as a Cabinet officer in the administrations of two U.S. Presidents in the third quarter of the 20th century. Rogers was born June 23, 1913, in Norfolk, New York. He was raised, from early in his teens, following the death of his mother, by his grandparents, in Canton, New York. After education at Colgate University and Cornell University Law School, he passed the bar in 1937. - John E. Rankin
John Elliott Rankin (March 29, 1882 - November 26, 1960) was a congressman from the U.S. State of Mississippi. Rankin was born near Bolanda in Itawamba County, Mississippi and he graduated from the University of Mississippi law school in 1910. Rankin served in the United States Army during World War I. In 1920, he was elected to the House as a Democrat. He served sixteen consecutive terms (March 4, 1921 - January 3, 1953) as Mississippi's First District Representative. - Bartley Crum
Bartley Cavanaugh Crum (1900-1959) was a prominent American lawyer. Bartley Crum was a confidant of William Randolph Hearst and the 1940 U.S. Presidential candidate Wendel Willkie. A Roman Catholic, Crum was a member of the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine in 1945 that advised President Harry Truman to support the opening of the British Mandate of Palestine to unrestricted Jewish immigration, and to allow the creation of a Jewish state. - John Stephens Wood
John Stephens Wood (February 8, 1885 - September 12, 1968) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. He served in the United States House of Representatives, 1931-1935 and 1945-1953. Wood was born on a farm near Ball Ground, Cherokee County, Georgia, February 8, 1885. He attended the public schools, North Georgia Agricultural College, Dahlonega, Georgia, and graduated with a law degree from Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, in 1910. - Roy Huggins
Roy Huggins (July 18, 1914 - April 3, 2002) was a novelist and an influential writer and producer of humorous, character-driven US television series. Shows he was involved in typically featured misfits and rascals rather than conventional heroes. Huggins' novels include "The Double Take" (1946), "Too Late For Tears" (1947) and "Lovely Lady, Pity Me" (1949). He is best known as the creator of long-running shows such as "Maverick", … - Phoebe Brand
Phoebe Brand was an American actress, who was blacklisted along with her husband, Morris Carnovsky, in the 1950s. She was born on in upstate New York in 1907. She eventually moved to New York City and became an actress, marrying Carnovsky in 1941 (until his death in 1992), and had one child, Stephen Carnovsky. Phoebe and Morris Carnovsky, who was a famed Shakespearean actor, were original members of the legendary Group Theater with one-time Communist director, … - Julius J. Epstein
Julius J. Epstein was an American screenwriter, who had a long career, most noted for the adaptation - in partnership with his twin brother, Philip, and others —- of the unproduced play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" that became the screenplay for the film "Casablanca" (1942), for which its team of writers won an Academy Award. Following his brother's death in 1952, he continued writing, garnering two more Oscar nominations and, in 1998, … - Richard Howard Ichord Jr.
Richard Howard Ichord Jr. (Dick) (June 27, 1926 - December 25,1992) was a significant U.S. anti-Communist political figure. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the last chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee between 1969 and 1975 (called the House Internal Security Committee since 1969). Ichord was born in Licking, Missouri. From 1944 to 1946 he served in the United States Navy. - Harold Himmel Velde
Harold Himmel Velde (April 1, 1910 - September 1, 1985) was a U.S. political figure. Velde was born in near Parkland, Illinois. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1931 and studied law at the University of Illinois. During World War II, he served as a private in the Signal Corps of the United States Army until 1943 when he was appointed a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in sabotage and counter-espionage division. - Joshua Shelley
Joshua Shelley (27 January 1920 - 16 February 1990) was one of the actors blacklisted by movie studios as a result of the House Un-American Activities Committee's (HUAC) investigation of the Communist Party in Hollywood in 1952. He did not begin to again work regularly in Hollywood until 1973 when his career restarted. - Martha Holmes
Martha Holmes Waxman (born February 7, 1923, Louisville, Kentucky; died, September 19, 2006, Manhattan, New York City, New York) was an American photographer and photojournalist, who worked for many years for "Life" magazine. A Louisville native, Holmes was studying art at the University of Louisville and photography at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville when someone suggested working at the The Courier-Journal (Louisville) and The Louisville Times newspapers. - George Oppen
George Oppen (April 24, 1908 - July 7, 1984) was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism, and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He returned to poetry - and to the United States - in 1958, and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. - John Sanford
John Sanford (1904 - March 5, 2003) was an American author. Born Julian Lawrence Shapiro in Harlem, New York City, he was a childhood friend of author Nathanael West. Young Julian studied law at Fordham University, but when West told him that he was writing a book, Julian decided that was what he wanted to do with his life. He had stories published in European literary journals, and in 1933 wrote his first novel, "The Water Wheel". - Phil Brown
Philip Mortimer Brown (April 30 1916 - February 9 2006) was an American actor. Brown was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After majoring in dramatics at Stanford University, Brown played some of his earliest stage roles as part of New York's Group Theater. When it folded, he and other Group Theatre veterans headed to Hollywood, where Brown worked in motion pictures and helped found the fabled Actors' Laboratory. - Guy Endore
Samuel Guy Endore (4 July 1900 - 12 February 1970), also known as Harry Relis, was a novelist and screenwriter. He wrote many novels and screenplays for action films and thrillers. He is best known for his novel "The Werewolf of Paris" which occupies a significant position in werewolf literature, in much the same way as "Dracula" does for vampires. He was nominated for a screenwriting Oscar for "The Story of G.I. Joe" (1945). - Martin Kamen
Martin David Kamen (August 27, 1913, Toronto - August 31, 2002), was co-discoverer (with Sam Ruben) of the isotope carbon-14 on February 27, 1940, at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley. - Bella Lewitzky
Bella Lewitzky (January 13, 1916 in Los Angeles, California - July 16, 2004 in Pasadena, California) was a modern dance choreographer and noted teacher. Born to Russian immigrants, Lewitzky spent her childhood in a utopian socialist colony in the Mojave Desert, and on a ranch in San Bernardino. She moved back to Los Angeles in her teens, and briefly studied ballet. In 1934, she joined Lester Horton's company, became its lead dancer, … - Philip G. Epstein
Philip G. Epstein was an American screenwriter most known for his adaptation in partnership with his twin brother, Julius, and others of the unproduced play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" that became the screenplay for the Academy Award-winning film "Casablanca" (1942). Epstein was born in New York City and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His father was a livery stable owner in the days when horses were still common on the streets of the city. - John Herrmann
John Theodore Herrmann was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1900. He lived in Paris in the 1920s, as part of its famous expatriate American writers' circle, when he met his first wife, Josephine Herbst. Herbst enjoyed more success as a writer than Herrmann; the couple lived a few years in rural Pennsylvania, and were friends with Katherine Anne Porter. They divorced in the early 1930s, and he went to work for the New Deal administration of Franklin Roosevelt in 1934.
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