Christopher Trumbo

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. His father, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, was blacklisted by Hollywood for nearly a decade for refusing to testify to Congress, as one of a group known as The Hollywood Ten. Trumbo was seven years old when his father was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.

Career Trumbo began working as a television and film screenwriter in 1967.