Drama /

Score: 71.6%( 1601 votes )

Overview: 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.

Cast:

Bryan Cranston
Dalton Trumbo

Diane Lane
Cleo Trumbo

Helen Mirren
Hedda Hopper

Elle Fanning
Nikola Trumbo

Louis C.K.
Arlen Hird

John Goodman
Frank King

Michael Stuhlbarg
Edward G. Robinson

David James Elliott
John Wayne

Roger Bart
Buddy Ross

Mark Harelik
Ed Muhl

John Getz
Sam Wood

Alan Tudyk
Ian McLellan Hunter

James DuMont
J. Parnell Thomas

Richard Portnow
Louis B. Mayer

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Virgil Brooks

Stephen Root
Hymie King

Mattie Liptak
Chris Trumbo (Age 13-17)

Dean O'Gorman
Kirk Douglas

Garrett Hines
Andrew Hird

Christian Berkel
Otto Preminger

Dan Bakkedahl
Roy Brewer

Toby Nichols
Chris Trumbo (age 6-10) (as Tobias McDowell Nichols)

Dalton Trumbo
Himself (archive footage)

Laura Flannery
Party Goer

Madison Wolfe
Niki Trumbo (age 8-11)

Johnny Sneed
Robert Stripling

Rio Hackford
Reporter

Dane Rhodes
Reporter

Peter MacKenzie
Robert Kenny

John Neisler
Jury Foreman

Sean Bridgers
Jeff Krandall

Meghan Wolfe
Mitzi Trumbo (age 6-8)

Becca Nicole Preston
Mitzi Trumbo (age 9-12)

Mark Harelik
Edward 'Ed' Muhl

Jaclyn Bethany
Starlet (uncredited)

Kate Kuen
Ethel (uncredited)

Suzanne LaChasse
Showgirl (uncredited)

Rhonda Laizer
Trumbo Friend (uncredited)

Veronica Parks
Showgirl (uncredited)

Anne Speed
Juror (uncredited)