Dalton Trumbo biography

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Dalton Trumbo was born on December 9, 1905 in Montrose, Colorado. He was a screenwriter and novelist who was a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group who refused to testify before the 1947 U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities. As a result, he was blacklisted and spent 11 months in prison. He wrote 30 scripts under pseudonyms and won an Oscar for The Brave One. He died in 1976.