- Edward Dmytryk
Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 - July 1, 1999) was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy era red scare. Although born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada, Dmytryk grew up in San Francisco when his Ukrainian parents moved to the United States. At the age of 31, he became a naturalized citizen. - Seth Finkelstein
Seth Finkelstein is an American computer programmer and activist, and one of the founders of the Censorware Project (CWP), who has worked to raise public awareness of the dangers he perceived as being posed by popular content-control software to communication. Finkelstein was the unnamed inside source for the CWP, providing the information for a number of breaking news articles from 1996 to 2000 about content-control software lists and practices, … - 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. - 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. - Lester Cole
Lester Cole (June 19, 1904 - August 15, 1985) was an American screenwriter. Born in New York City, Lester Cole began his career as an actor but soon turned to screenwriting. His first work was "If I had a Million"." In 1933, he joined with John Howard Lawson and Samuel Ornitz to establish the Writers' Guild of America. In 1934 he joined the American Communist Party. Subjected to a House Committee on Un-American Activities investigation and blacklisted, … - Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon was an American stage actor and stage and film director. Born in Baltimore of Jewish heritage, he was a member of the Group Theatre (1935 - 1940), he was blacklisted as a Communist in the days of McCarthyism. He later joined the faculty of the UCLA Theatre Arts Department. Gordon was the maternal grandfather of actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Due to this, Gordon's Hollywood career neatly falls into two phases. - 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. - John Henry Faulk
John Henry Faulk (August 21, 1913-April 9, 1990) from Austin, Texas was a storyteller and radio show host. His successful lawsuit against McCarthyite blacklisters of the entertainment industry helped to bring an end to the Hollywood blacklist. He attended the University of Texas and was a graduate student of J. Frank Dobie, earning a Masters degree with his thesis "Ten Negro Sermons". He served in the Merchant Marine, the American Red Cross and the US Army during WWII. - 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, … - 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. - Will Geer
Will Geer (born 9 March 1902 in Frankfort, Indiana - died 22 April 1978 in Los Angeles) was an American actor. Geer's real name was William Auge Ghere. He is best known for his portrayal of the character Grandpa Walton, in the popular 1970s TV series "The Waltons". Geer was heavily influenced by his grandfather, who taught him the botanical names of the plants in his native Indiana. - Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 - February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s. In May of 1953, Rossen appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee and named 47 people as Communists. According to the <i> New York Times</i>, he testified, … - Piers Anthony
Anthony's family emigrated to the United States from Britain while he was a child. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in his twenties. He went to a liberal arts college in Vermont, married his college sweetheart, and then joined the army. After completing a two year stint in military service, he briefly taught public school before becoming a fulltime writer. Anthony currently lives with his wife on a tree farm which he owns in Florida. - Leo Penn
Leo Penn was an American actor and director. Leo Penn's parents were Russian and Lithuanian Jews. Claims of their Sephardic extraction (the original surname was reportedly Piñon and was allegedly altered by officials at Ellis Island; see) are highly improbable: there were no known Sephardic Jews in Russia, where Penn is a relatively common Ashkenazic surname. He was married to actress Eileen Ryan, and the father of singer Michael Penn and actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn. - 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. - 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. - Peter Brocco
Peter Brocco (January 16, 1903 - December 20, 1992) was an American film and TV character actor for nearly 60 years. He appeared as a criminal type in several episodes of "Adventures of Superman". He holds the distinction of having been killed off in two of them, a relative rarity for villains in the series. In the first, "The Secret of Superman", he deduces that Kent is Superman, but is killed in a police shootout soon after. - Harvey Matusow
Harvey Matusow (aka Harvey Job Matusow was a U.S. Communist who protected himself from HUAC by providing evidence against his former left-wing colleagues. His false accusations led to his own perjury conviction and to being blacklisted. His McCarthy era activities overshadowed his later work as an artist, actor and producer. Matusow was a member of the American Communist Party and worked as a journalist and a stage and radio actor. - Audrey Meadows
Audrey Cotter Six, known professionally as Audrey Meadows, born Audrey Cotter, was an Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for playing the deadpan housewife, Alice Kramden in the 1950s American television comedy, "The Honeymooners". According to the Social Security Death Index, Audrey Six (her married name) was born in 1922. Her sister, Jayne Meadows, long claimed to have been born in 1926, … - Wayne Mansfield
Wayne Mansfield, of Perth in Western Australia, was the head of direct marketing business T3 Direct Marketing, operating under a series of two-dollar companies, and in 2005 became the first Australian to be prosecuted for email spamming. Mansfield was a junk faxer in the mid-1990s before turning to spamming, in which he promoted seminar-hosting companies he ran, … - Herta Ware
Herta Ware (June 9, 1917 - August 15, 2005) was an American actress and political activist. Ware was born in Wilmington, Delaware to an actor father and musician mother. The granddaughter of socialists and labor union activists, Ware made her Broadway debut in "Let Freedom Ring", co-starring Will Geer, whom she later married. The couple appeared together in other New York plays as well, including "Bury the Dead" (1936), "Prelude" (1936), … - Jerome Chodorov
Jerome Chodorov (10 August 1911 - 12 September 2004) was a playwright and librettist. He was born in New York City, and entered journalism in the 1930s, but is best known for his play "My Sister Eileen" and for the musical comedy "Wonderful Town", which is based on it. Joseph Fields was his frequent collaborator. He was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. His brother, Edward Chodorov (1904-1988), was also a playwright, … - Seijun Suzuki
born Seitaro Suzuki on May 24, 1923, is a Japanese film director. His films are renowned by film enthusiasts worldwide for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre. - Lionel Atwill
Lionel Atwill (March 1, 1885 - April 22, 1946) was an English stage and film actor born in Croydon, London. He began his career in theatre but was most famous for his horror roles in the 1930s. His two most memorable parts were as the crazed, disfigured sculptor in "Mystery of the Wax Museum" (Warner Brothers, 1933) -- a role also played by Vincent Price in the 1953 remake, "House of Wax" -- and as Inspector Krogh in "Son of Frankenstein" (1939), … - Eileen Ryan
Eileen Ryan (circa 1928) is an American actress who has appeared in a number of movies and TV series. She was the wife of the late actor and director Leo Penn. She is also mother of actor Sean Penn, singer Michael Penn and the late actor Chris Penn. Ryan was born to an Irish-Italian Roman Catholic family in New York City, under the name Eileen Annucci, the daughter of Rose and A. William Annucci. - Carlos Bulosan
Carlos Bulosan (born to Ilocano parents in Pangasinan, Philippines on November 24 1913, died in Seattle, Washington on September 13 1956) was a Filipino American novelist best-known for the semi-autobiographical "America Is in the Heart". He was active in labor politics along the Pacific coast of the United States and edited the 1952 Yearbook for ILWU Local 37, a predominantly Filipino American cannery union based in Seattle. - Madaline Lee
Madaline Lee was a mid 20th century American actor, best known for her role as secretary Genevieve Blue on the Amos n Andy television program, and for her peripheral involvement in a Blacklisting scandal in the 1940s. - Robert A. McGowan
Robert Anthony McGowan (May 22 1901 - June 20 1955) was an American screenwriter and film director. Born in Denver, Colorado, McGowan is best known as a junior director for the "Our Gang" short subjects film series from 1926 to 1930, and as the co-writer of the series during the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer period from 1938 to 1944. McGowan was named for his uncle, "Our Gang" senior director Robert F. McGowan. Since both Robert McGowans worked on the series, … - Nils Asther
Nils Asther (January 17, 1897 - October 13, 1981) was a Danish-born Swedish stage and film actor. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Asther grew up in Sweden and attended the Royal Dramatic Theater School in Stockholm. After returning to Copenhagen to do stage work, he soon began appearing in European films, working with acclaimed directors such as Victor Sjostrom. He soon left for Hollywood, his first film there being released in 1927. - Allen Adler
Allen Adler (December 25, 1916 -) was an American writer, also involved in theater in various ways. With Irving Block he wrote the story for the screenplay for "Forbidden Planet", based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest", but was a victim of the Second Red Scare and was blacklisted from the film industry. He was the son of Abe Adler who, in turn, was the son of Yiddish theater star Jacob Adler by his first wife Sonya ("Sophia") Adler. - Jacques Higelin
Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (born 18 October 1940 in Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne, France) is a French pop singer who rose prominence in the early 1970s. Early in his career, many of Higelin's songs were effectively blacklisted from French radio because of his controversial left wing political beliefs, and his association with socialist groups. He and his wife, Kuelan, are the parents of three children, including musician Arthur H and actor Ken Higelin. - Willard van Dyke
Willard Van Dyke (5 December 1906 - 23 January 1986) was an American filmmaker and photographer who believed that photography could have a major influence on the world. Willard Van Dyke apprenticed with Edward Weston in 1928 and co-founded the Group f/64 in 1932 with Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, and Weston. The group believed in sharp-focus, "straight photography." In 1935, … - Hansel Mieth
Hansel Mieth (1909-1998), born Johanna Mieth in Oppelsbohm, Germany, was a documentary photographer and photojournalist. She worked on the staff of LIFE magazine from 1937-1940, and was known for recording the lives of the working class. She died in Santa Rosa, California. Mieth was born to a strict religious family, which she escaped at age 15 by running away. She later emigrated to the USA in 1930, there joining her lover and fellow photographer Otto Hagel, (1909-1973). - William Howard Russell
William Howard Russell (28 March, 1821 - 11 February, 1907) was an Irish reporter with "The Times", and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents, after he spent 22 months covering the Crimean War. - Mikhail Vartanov
Mikhail Vartanov (b. February 21, 1937, RSFSR, Soviet Union, now Russian Federation) is a Russian film director and writer. Vartanov graduated from the Russian state film school VGIK in 1966. He began his documentary oeuvre with the wordless "The Color of Armenian Land" (1969), featuring the world famous behind-the-scenes episodes of Sergei Parajanov's landmark "The Color of Pomegranates" (originally released under the title "Sayat Nova" in 1968). - John Calderwood
John Calderwood was born in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland. Little is known about his parentage or life. He went to work in the local coal mines at the age of nine while attending public night school. Calderwood emigrated to the United States at the age 17, and attended the Mckeesport School of Mines in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1876. After graduation, Calderwood settled in Colorado. He was elected president of a miners' union in Aspen, Colorado. - Myron Coureval Fagan
Myron Coureval Fagan (31 October 1887 - 12 May 1972) was a Jewish American writer, producer and director for film and theatre. He was married to actress Minna Gombell, who starred in many of his productions. In 1916 Fagan served as Director of Public Relations for Republican Presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes. In 1929 the talking picture version of his play "The Great Power" earned the dubious record of being the shortest run of any movie at the Capitol Theatre, … - Wedo Georgetti
Guido "Wedo" Georgetti (1911 - December 12, 2005) is an American painter, etcher and lithographer. He was born in Marche, Italy, and came to the United States when he was one-year old. Wedo Georgetti spent many years travelling as a merchant seaman before he gained significant recognition as an artist. It is believed that he used experiences and images from his extensive travels as inspiration for his art. - László Rajk Jr.
László Rajk Jr. is an architect and designer born in 1949 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of the most known show trial victim, Hungary's foreign minister László Rajk. Famous in his own right for anti-regime activities. As an architect, he became the member of the Hungarian avantgarde movement. From 1975 he joined the Democratic Opposition, the underground political movement in Hungary, therefore from 1980 he was blacklisted, and was not allowed to work under his own name. - Paul Robeson
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9, 1898 - January 23, 1976) was a multi-lingual American actor, athlete, bass-baritone concert singer, writer, civil rights activist, Communist sympathizer, Spingarn Medal winner, and Stalin Peace Prize laureate.
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