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Christopher Trumbo (September 25, 1940 – January 8, 2011) was an American television writer, screenwriter and playwright. Trumbo was considered an expert on the McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklist.
Christopher Trumbo was born on 25 September 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a writer and assistant director, known for Dark Justice (1991), The Don Is Dead (1973) and Brannigan (1975). He was married to Nancy Escher. He died on 8 January 2011 in Ojai, California, USA.
Jan 12, 2011 · Christopher Trumbo, the screen and television writer son of Oscar-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted and imprisoned during the Red Scare as a member of the...
Christopher Trumbo, born in Los Angeles in 1940, observed Dalton Trumbo’s blacklist experiences as a child—in their home and visiting him in jail—and explored them through conversations and correspondence until his father’s death in 1976.
Jan 12, 2011 · Christopher Trumbo was an expert on the 1940s House Un-American Activities Committee investigation into alleged communist infiltration of Hollywood. He wrote the...
Feb 23, 2011 · Chris was the son, of Dalton Trumbo, one of the original Hollywood Ten blacklisted screen play writers, actors, and directors. All of them were blacklisted and forced into poverty because of how people interpreted their words in a nation that had freedom of speech and assembly.
Christopher Trumbo was a generous, loving man who had a dry wit and an extraordinary command of the English language. His decision to become a writer was a bow to the inevitable and an embrace of the familiar.
