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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Jr. (August 19, 1915 – October 31, 2000) was an American screenwriter. A member of the "Hollywood Ten", he was blacklisted by the Hollywood film studios during the late 1940s and 1950s after his appearance as an "unfriendly" witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) leading to Lardner being found ...
Ring Lardner, Jr. was the last of the Hollywood 10 to die, passing away on Halloween, October 31, 2000, in New York City from cancer. He was 85 years old and had long outlived most of the witch-hunters who had tormented him.
Nov 2, 2000 · Ring Lardner Jr., the Academy Award-winning screenwriter who was imprisoned for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee, has died of cancer. He was 85.
Nov 1, 2000 · Ring Lardner Jr., whose satirical screenplays twice won the Academy Award, but who was best known for being jailed and blacklisted after he refused in 1947 to tell the House Un-American...
Nov 2, 2000 · Ring Lardner Jr., whose satirical screenplays twice won the Academy Award but whose career collapsed in 1947 after he refused to tell Congress if he had ever been a Communist, died on Tuesday at...
In his three-hour interview, Ring Lardner, Jr. (1915-2000) describes his work as a screenwriter and his experiences as one of the most high-profile victims of the Hollywood Blacklist.
Nov 10, 2000 · When Lardner, who died October 31, wrote it he was indeed (a) the last of a family of four boys with a famous father, the humorist and sportswriter Ring Lardner; and (b) the last surviving...
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NEW YORK Ring Lardner Jr., the last surviving member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters who were jailed and blacklisted during the McCarthy era in the 1950s, has died at 85. Mr. Lardner, who was born in Chicago and whose father was a famed humorist and baseball writer, died of cancer Tuesday at his home in New York City.
Nov 2, 2000 · Screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr., a two-time Oscar winner who had been the last surviving member of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten, died of cancer Tuesday night at his Manhattan apartment. He was 85.
Oct 31, 2000 · Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner Jr. (August 19, 1915 – October 31, 2000) was an American journalist and screenwriter blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s.