The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Dalton Trumbo
Cleo Trumbo
Hedda Hopper
Nikola Trumbo
Arlen Hird
Frank King
Edward G. Robinson
John Wayne
Buddy Ross
Ed Muhl
Sam Wood
Ian McLellan Hunter
J. Parnell Thomas
Louis B. Mayer
Virgil Brooks
Hymie King
Chris Trumbo (Age 13-17)
Kirk Douglas
Andrew Hird
Otto Preminger
Roy Brewer
Chris Trumbo (age 6-10) (as Tobias McDowell Nichols)
Himself (archive footage)
Party Goer
Niki Trumbo (age 8-11)
Robert Stripling
Reporter
Reporter
Robert Kenny
Jury Foreman
Jeff Krandall
Mitzi Trumbo (age 6-8)
Mitzi Trumbo (age 9-12)
Edward 'Ed' Muhl
Starlet (uncredited)
Ethel (uncredited)
Showgirl (uncredited)
Trumbo Friend (uncredited)
Showgirl (uncredited)
Juror (uncredited)
First Assistant Director
Unit Production Manager
Second Assistant Director
Costume Designer
Set Decoration
Art Direction
Associate Producer
Producer
Prosthetics
Director
Screenplay
Co-Producer
Producer
Producer
Editor
Art Direction
Director of Photography
Producer
Production Design
Producer
Producer
Executive Producer
Casting
Original Music Composer
Producer
Producer
Book
Stunt Coordinator
Stunt Double