by the (get this) House Un-American Activities Committee or HUAC:
First, the
"Hollywood Ten":
While the Hollywood Ten were the most high-profile screenwriters and directors blacklisted, many others, including some of Hollywood's most famous and successful writers found themselves unable to work in their fields during the time of the red scare while others had their careers all but destroyed.Alvah Bessie, screenwriter
Herbert Biberman, screenwriter, director
Lester Cole, screenwriter
Edward Dmytryk, director
Ring Lardner, Jr, journalist, screenwriter
John Howard Lawson, writer
Albert Maltz, author, screenwriter
Samuel Ornitz , screenwriter
Adrian Scott, screenwriter, film producer
Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter, novelist
Most estimates indicate that the blacklist involved approximately 325 employees in film and related industries. However, according to Carl Foreman's son, Jonathan Foreman, a lawyer, historian, and editorial writer and senior film critic for the New York Post, there were 500 or so victims of the Hollywood blacklist. Dalton Trumbo said of it: "the blacklist was a time of such evil, no one survived untouched."Blacklisted Film Artists:Allen Adler, screenwriter
Larry Adler, actor, musician
Orson Bean, actor
Barbara Bel Geddes, actress
Herschel Bernardi, actor
Walter Bernstein, screenwriter
John Berry, actor, screenwriter, director
Marc Blitzstein, composer
Allen Boretz, songwriter
Phoebe Brand, actress
Bertolt Brecht, screenwriter
J. Edward Bromberg, actor
Sidney Buchman, screenwriter
Hugo Butler, screenwriter
Morris Carnovsky, actor
Jerome Chodorov, writer
Aaron Copland, composer
Jeff Corey, actor
John Cromwell director
Jules Dassin, director
Roger De Koven, actor
Paul Draper, actor, dancer
Hanns Eisler, composer
Cy Endfield, screenwriter, director
John Henry Faulk, radio personality
Jerry Fielding, composer
Carl Foreman, producer, screenwriter
John Garfield, actor
Betty Garrett, actress
Will Geer, actor
Jack Gilford, actor
Bernard Gordon, screenwriter
Lloyd Gough, actor
Lee Grant, actress
Dashiell Hammett, writer
Sterling Hayden, actor
Lillian Hellman, playwright
Marsha Hunt, actress
Sidney Kingsley, playwright
Sam Jaffe, actor
Paul Jarrico, producer, screenwriter
Gordon Kahn, screenwriter
Pert Kelton, actress
Victor Kilian, actor
Howard Koch, screenwriter, actor
Alexander Knox, actor
Arthur Laurents, writer
Marc Lawrence, actor
John Howard Lawson, writer
Canada Lee, actor
Robert Lees, screenwriter
Louise Lewis, actress
Philip Loeb, actor
Joseph Losey, director
Arnold Manoff, screenwriter
Robert A. McGowan, screenwriter, director
Burgess Meredith, actor
Arthur Miller, playwright
Karen Morley, actress
Zero Mostel, actor
Jean Muir, actress
Clifford Odets, writer
Dorothy Parker, writer
Larry Parks, actor
Leo Penn, actor
Abraham Polonsky, screenwriter, director
John Randolph, actor
Maurice Rapf, screenwriter
Anne Revere, actress
Rosaura Revueltas, actress
Frederic I. Rinaldo, screenwriter
Martin Ritt, actor, director
Paul Robeson, actor, singer
Edwin Rolfe, poet
Robert Rossen, screenwriter
Jean Rouverol, actress, writer
Waldo Salt, screenwriter
Pete Seeger, folk singer
Irwin Shaw, writer
Joshua Shelley, actor
Howard Da Silva, actor
Gale Sondergaard, actress
Lionel Stander, actor
Frank Tarloff, screenwriter
Dorothy Tree, actress
Louis Untermeyer, poet
Michael Wilson, screenwriter
Richard N. Wright, writer
Nedrick Young, actor, screenwriter
Source: Blacklisted Artists