Members, witnesses, and subjects of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-75).
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Herbert J. Biberman |
Screenwriter |
4-Mar-1900 |
30-Jun-1971 |
Blacklisted screenwriter |
| Marc Blitzstein |
Composer |
2-Mar-1905 |
22-Jan-1964 |
The Cradle Will Rock |
| Humphrey Bogart |
Actor |
25-Dec-1899 |
14-Jan-1957 |
Casablanca |
| Daniel Boorstin |
Historian |
1-Oct-1914 |
28-Feb-2004 |
The Creators |
| Bertolt Brecht |
Playwright |
10-Feb-1898 |
14-Aug-1956 |
Mother Courage and Her Children |
| Lloyd Bridges |
Actor |
15-Jan-1913 |
10-Mar-1998 |
Airplane! |
| Smedley Butler |
Military |
30-Jul-1881 |
21-Jun-1940 |
Exposed the 1933 coup plot |
| Whittaker Chambers |
Author |
1-Apr-1901 |
9-Jul-1961 |
Accuser of Alger Hiss |
| Lee J. Cobb |
Actor |
8-Dec-1911 |
11-Feb-1976 |
The Left Hand of God |
| Lester Cole |
Screenwriter |
19-Jun-1904 |
15-Aug-1985 |
Born Free |
| Edward Condon |
Physicist |
2-Mar-1902 |
26-Mar-1974 |
Quantum Mechanics |
| Gary Cooper |
Actor |
7-May-1901 |
14-May-1961 |
High Noon |
| Martin Dies, Jr. |
Politician |
5-Nov-1900 |
14-Nov-1972 |
Congressman from Texas |
| Walt Disney |
Business |
5-Dec-1901 |
15-Dec-1966 |
Founder of Disney empire |
| Edward Dmytryk |
Film Director |
4-Sep-1908 |
1-Jul-1999 |
The Caine Mutiny |
| Hanns Eisler |
Composer |
6-Jul-1898 |
6-Sep-1962 |
German radical composer |
| Will Geer |
Actor |
9-Mar-1902 |
22-Apr-1978 |
Zebulon Walton in The Waltons |
| Lloyd Gough |
Actor |
21-Sep-1907 |
23-Jul-1984 |
Blacklisted character actor |
| Harry Hay |
Activist |
7-Apr-1912 |
24-Oct-2002 |
Gay activist, founder The Mattachine Society |
| Sterling Hayden |
Actor |
26-Mar-1916 |
23-May-1986 |
Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove |
| Lillian Hellman |
Playwright |
20-Jun-1905 |
30-Jun-1984 |
Little Foxes |
| Alger Hiss |
Government |
11-Nov-1904 |
15-Nov-1996 |
Accused spy for the Soviet Union |
| Abbie Hoffman |
Activist |
30-Nov-1936 |
12-Apr-1989 |
Steal This Book |
| J. Edgar Hoover |
Government |
1-Jan-1895 |
2-May-1972 |
Director of the FBI, 1924-72 |
| Elia Kazan |
Film Director |
7-Sep-1909 |
28-Sep-2003 |
A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Rockwell Kent |
Painter |
21-Jun-1882 |
13-Mar-1971 |
Early 20th c. American realist painter |
| Ring Lardner, Jr. |
Playwright |
19-Aug-1915 |
31-Oct-2000 |
Screenwriter, M*A*S*H |
| John Howard Lawson |
Playwright |
25-Sep-1894 |
11-Aug-1977 |
One of the Hollywood Ten |
| Albert Maltz |
Playwright |
28-Oct-1908 |
26-Apr-1985 |
One of the Hollywood Ten |
| Louis B. Mayer |
Film/TV Producer |
4-Jul-1885 |
29-Oct-1957 |
The final M in MGM |
| Adolphe Menjou |
Actor |
18-Feb-1890 |
29-Oct-1963 |
A Farewell to Arms |
| Arthur Miller |
Playwright |
17-Oct-1915 |
10-Feb-2005 |
Death of a Salesman |
| Robert Montgomery |
Actor |
21-May-1904 |
27-Sep-1981 |
Mr. and Mrs. Smith |
| Karen Morley |
Actor |
12-Dec-1909 |
8-Mar-2003 |
Gabriel Over the White House |
| Zero Mostel |
Actor |
28-Feb-1915 |
8-Sep-1977 |
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
| Richard M. Nixon |
Head of State |
9-Jan-1913 |
22-Apr-1994 |
37th US President, 1969-74 |
| Clifford Odets |
Playwright |
18-Jul-1906 |
14-Aug-1963 |
Sweet Smell of Success |
| Robert Oppenheimer |
Physicist |
22-Apr-1904 |
18-Feb-1967 |
Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project |
| Larry Parks |
Actor |
13-Dec-1914 |
13-Apr-1975 |
Named names before HUAC |
| Ayn Rand |
Author |
2-Feb-1905 |
6-Mar-1982 |
Atlas Shrugged |
| Ronald Reagan |
Head of State |
6-Feb-1911 |
5-Jun-2004 |
40th US President, 1981-89 |
| Paul Robeson |
Singer |
9-Apr-1898 |
23-Jan-1976 |
20th Century renaissance man |
| Robert Rossen |
Screenwriter |
16-Mar-1908 |
18-Feb-1966 |
The Hustler |
| Jerry Rubin |
Activist |
14-Jul-1938 |
28-Nov-1994 |
Yippie, one of the Chicago 7 |
| Budd Schulberg |
Novelist |
27-Mar-1914 |
5-Aug-2009 |
What Makes Sammy Run? |
| Fred C. Schwarz |
Activist |
15-Jan-1913 |
24-Jan-2009 |
Christian Anti-Communist Crusade |
| Pete Seeger |
Singer/Songwriter |
3-May-1919 |
27-Jan-2014 |
We Shall Overcome |
| George Seldes |
Journalist |
16-Nov-1890 |
2-Jul-1995 |
Witness to a Century |
| Robert Taylor |
Actor |
5-Aug-1911 |
8-Jun-1969 |
Quo Vadis |
| Studs Terkel |
Author |
16-May-1912 |
31-Oct-2008 |
Working |
| J. Parnell Thomas |
Government |
16-Jan-1895 |
19-Nov-1970 |
HUAC chairman, took the Fifth |
| Dalton Trumbo |
Author |
9-Dec-1905 |
10-Sep-1976 |
Johnny Got His Gun |
| Jack L. Warner |
Business |
2-Aug-1892 |
9-Sep-1978 |
Co-Founder, Warner Bros. |
