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  1. 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 ...

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    • 1937–1977
    • October 31, 2000 (aged 85), New York City, U.S.
    • Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Jr., August 19, 1915, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
  2. 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. He was survived by his wife, Frances Chaney, and five children.

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    • Chicago, Illinois, USA
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    • Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
  3. Nov 2, 2000 · Nov. 2, 2000 12 AM PT. Los Angeles Times Staff Writers. Ring Lardner Jr., the Academy Award-winning screenwriter who was imprisoned for refusing to answer questions before the House...

  4. Mini Bio. The Oscar-winning screenwriter, Ring Lardner, Jr., will always be known for one of two things: that he was the son of one of the greatest humorists American literature has produced, and he was one of the Hollywood 10, the ten film-makers who refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigating ...

    • August 15, 1915
    • October 31, 2000
  5. Nov 1, 2000 · 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...

  6. 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...

  7. Nov 2, 2000 · Ring Lardner Jr., 85, a blacklisted film writer who won Academy Awards for the sharp-tongued romance "Woman of the Year" in 1942 and "M*A*S*H," the searingly satiric 1970 tale set during the...

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