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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
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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.[1] 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.[1]
Trumbo was born on September 25, 1940, to Dalton and Cleo Trumbo, in Los Angeles, where he was also raised.[2] Trumbo was seven years old when his father was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.[1] His father spent ten months in prison before being released in 1951.[1] The family moved to Mexico City to share a place with the screenwriter Hugo Butler, who was also blacklisted, and his family.[1] The Trumbos returned to California after two years in Mexico and settled in Highland Park.[1]
Trumbo graduated from Franklin High School in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.[2] He enrolled at Columbia University. He took a year off from Columbia to work as an assistant director on the 1960 film Exodus, adapted from the novel written by Leon Uris; the screenplay was written by his father, Dalton Trumbo, and the film was directed by Otto Preminger.[2] Trumbo received a bachelor's degree from Columbia College in 1964.[1][3]
Trumbo began working as a television and film screenwriter in 1967.[1][2] Trumbo co-wrote the film The Don Is Dead (1973), starring Anthony Quinn, as well as the John Wayne film Brannigan (1975). In 1974, he was the co-creator with Michael Butler of the short-lived ABC police drama Nakia, and he also wrote for the series. In 1978, Trumbo wrote the television film Ishi: The Last of His Tribe, in which he co-credited his father, who died in 1976.[2] Trumbo's other credits included television episodes of Falcon Crest, Ironside and Quincy, M.E..[1]
Trumbo wrote a play based on his father's blacklist-era letters, called Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted.[2] The play, which focuses on Dalton Trumbo's blacklist experience through his personal letters, was adapted as an off-Broadway production directed by Peter Askin.[1] Askin's Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, which starred Nathan Lane as Dalton Trumbo and Gordon MacDonald as the narrator, opened at the Westside Theatre in New York City.[1] The production ran for approximately one year.[1] Lane departed the production and several well-known actors took on the role of Dalton Trumbo, including Chris Cooper, Gore Vidal, Richard Dreyfuss, F. Murray Abraham, Bill Irwin and Brian Dennehy.[1] Dennehy later starred in a national tour of the play.[1]
Christopher Trumbo and Peter Askins collaborated to create the film Trumbo (2007), which was also based on Dalton Trumbo's letters.[1] The film combined documentary footage with performances by Nathan Lane, Brian Dennehy, Liam Neeson, Donald Sutherland and Paul Giamatti.[1]
Trumbo was considered an expert on the Hollywood blacklist era. He was often cited in books and appeared in documentaries concerning the subject, including the seven-part Moguls and Movie Stars, which aired on Turner Classic Movies in 2010.[2] Trumbo was writing a history of the Hollywood blacklist at the time of his death in 2011.[2]
Trumbo died of cancer in hospice care at his home in Ojai, California, on January 8, 2011, at the age of 70, the same age at which his father died.[1] He was survived by his wife, Nancy Escher; his sisters, Nikola Trumbo and Mitzi Trumbo.[2] Before he died, he requested that his father receive full credit for his work on Roman Holiday, which won an Oscar. On December 19, 2011, the Writers Guild credited Dalton Trumbo with the screenplay posthumously.[4][5]
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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. 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 is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Peter Askin, produced by Will Battersby, Tory Tunnell, Alan Klingenstein, and David Viola, executive produced by Jim Kohlberg, and written by Christopher Trumbo. It is based on the letters of Christopher Trumbo's father, Dalton Trumbo, an Oscar-winning screenwriter who was imprisoned and blacklisted as a member of the Hollywood Ten, ten screenwriters, directors and producers who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the Hollywood film industry. The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and includes film clips and interviews, readings from Trumbo's letters by performers such as Michael Douglas, Joan Allen, Donald Sutherland, Liam Neeson, and Paul Giamatti, and a reenactment by David Strathairn of a speech given by Dalton Trumbo in 1970. The readings include parts of what the New York Times calls "Dalton Trumbo's remarkably stage-ready personal letters" that cover the period from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. Interspersed with these are archival clips from the HUAC hearings, footage from home movies, and "exceptionally well-selected interview clips with Trumbo".
Peter Askin (born 1940) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing the 2007 film Trumbo, a documentary about the Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo who was blacklisted for being a member of the Hollywood Ten. For the film, he worked closely with Trumbo's son, Christopher Trumbo.
Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (1978) is a made-for-television biopic based on the book Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber. The book relates the experiences of her husband Alfred L. Kroeber, who made friends with Ishi, thought to be the last of his people, the Yahi tribe. The telecast aired first on NBC on December 20, 1978. The film was written by Christopher Trumbo and his father, Dalton Trumbo, and directed by Robert Ellis Miller. Eloy Casados played the title role.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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