Dalton Trumbo

Ben McKenzie Gets His Gun

Interview: Christopher Trumbo

Birthday: December 09, 1905

Colorado-born Dalton Trumbo began his professional life as a newspaper reporter and editor and, like a lot of people in those professsion, was drawn into the movie business in the mid '30s. His career as a screenwriter was rather routine during the later part of the decade, his most important scripts being Five Came Back (1939) and Kitty Foyle (1940). With the outbreak of World War II, ...more