GROUP

Members, witnesses, and subjects of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-75).

See also McCarthy Hearings and Hollywood Blacklist.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Herbert J. Biberman	Screenwriter	4-Mar-1900	30-Jun-1971	Blacklisted screenwriter
Marc Blitzstein	Composer	2-Mar-1905	22-Jan-1964	The Cradle Will Rock
Humphrey Bogart	Actor	25-Dec-1899	14-Jan-1957	Casablanca
Daniel Boorstin	Historian	1-Oct-1914	28-Feb-2004	The Creators
Bertolt Brecht	Playwright	10-Feb-1898	14-Aug-1956	Mother Courage and Her Children
Lloyd Bridges	Actor	15-Jan-1913	10-Mar-1998	Airplane!
Smedley Butler	Military	30-Jul-1881	21-Jun-1940	Exposed the 1933 coup plot
Whittaker Chambers	Author	1-Apr-1901	9-Jul-1961	Accuser of Alger Hiss
Lee J. Cobb	Actor	8-Dec-1911	11-Feb-1976	The Left Hand of God
Lester Cole	Screenwriter	19-Jun-1904	15-Aug-1985	Born Free
Edward Condon	Physicist	2-Mar-1902	26-Mar-1974	Quantum Mechanics
Gary Cooper	Actor	7-May-1901	14-May-1961	High Noon
Martin Dies, Jr.	Politician	5-Nov-1900	14-Nov-1972	Congressman from Texas
Walt Disney	Business	5-Dec-1901	15-Dec-1966	Founder of Disney empire
Edward Dmytryk	Film Director	4-Sep-1908	1-Jul-1999	The Caine Mutiny
Hanns Eisler	Composer	6-Jul-1898	6-Sep-1962	German radical composer
Will Geer	Actor	9-Mar-1902	22-Apr-1978	Zebulon Walton in The Waltons
Lloyd Gough	Actor	21-Sep-1907	23-Jul-1984	Blacklisted character actor
Harry Hay	Activist	7-Apr-1912	24-Oct-2002	Gay activist, founder The Mattachine Society
Sterling Hayden	Actor	26-Mar-1916	23-May-1986	Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove
Lillian Hellman	Playwright	20-Jun-1905	30-Jun-1984	Little Foxes
Alger Hiss	Government	11-Nov-1904	15-Nov-1996	Accused spy for the Soviet Union
Abbie Hoffman	Activist	30-Nov-1936	12-Apr-1989	Steal This Book
J. Edgar Hoover	Government	1-Jan-1895	2-May-1972	Director of the FBI, 1924-72
Elia Kazan	Film Director	7-Sep-1909	28-Sep-2003	A Streetcar Named Desire
Rockwell Kent	Painter	21-Jun-1882	13-Mar-1971	Early 20th c. American realist painter
Ring Lardner, Jr.	Playwright	19-Aug-1915	31-Oct-2000	Screenwriter, M*A*S*H
John Howard Lawson	Playwright	25-Sep-1894	11-Aug-1977	One of the Hollywood Ten
Albert Maltz	Playwright	28-Oct-1908	26-Apr-1985	One of the Hollywood Ten
Louis B. Mayer	Film/TV Producer	4-Jul-1885	29-Oct-1957	The final M in MGM
Adolphe Menjou	Actor	18-Feb-1890	29-Oct-1963	A Farewell to Arms
Arthur Miller	Playwright	17-Oct-1915	10-Feb-2005	Death of a Salesman
Robert Montgomery	Actor	21-May-1904	27-Sep-1981	Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Karen Morley	Actor	12-Dec-1909	8-Mar-2003	Gabriel Over the White House
Zero Mostel	Actor	28-Feb-1915	8-Sep-1977	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Richard M. Nixon	Head of State	9-Jan-1913	22-Apr-1994	37th US President, 1969-74
Clifford Odets	Playwright	18-Jul-1906	14-Aug-1963	Sweet Smell of Success
Robert Oppenheimer	Physicist	22-Apr-1904	18-Feb-1967	Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project
Larry Parks	Actor	13-Dec-1914	13-Apr-1975	Named names before HUAC
Ayn Rand	Author	2-Feb-1905	6-Mar-1982	Atlas Shrugged
Ronald Reagan	Head of State	6-Feb-1911	5-Jun-2004	40th US President, 1981-89
Paul Robeson	Singer	9-Apr-1898	23-Jan-1976	20th Century renaissance man
Robert Rossen	Screenwriter	16-Mar-1908	18-Feb-1966	The Hustler
Jerry Rubin	Activist	14-Jul-1938	28-Nov-1994	Yippie, one of the Chicago 7
Budd Schulberg	Novelist	27-Mar-1914	5-Aug-2009	What Makes Sammy Run?
Fred C. Schwarz	Activist	15-Jan-1913	24-Jan-2009	Christian Anti-Communist Crusade
Pete Seeger	Singer/Songwriter	3-May-1919	27-Jan-2014	We Shall Overcome
George Seldes	Journalist	16-Nov-1890	2-Jul-1995	Witness to a Century
Robert Taylor	Actor	5-Aug-1911	8-Jun-1969	Quo Vadis
Studs Terkel	Author	16-May-1912	31-Oct-2008	Working
J. Parnell Thomas	Government	16-Jan-1895	19-Nov-1970	HUAC chairman, took the Fifth
Dalton Trumbo	Author	9-Dec-1905	10-Sep-1976	Johnny Got His Gun
Jack L. Warner	Business	2-Aug-1892	9-Sep-1978	Co-Founder, Warner Bros.

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