
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

"A" Camera Operator

Steadicam Operator