Birthday
1915/08/19
Day of death
2000/10/31 (85 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also know as
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Jr.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Ring Lardner Jr. moved to Hollywood where he worked as a publicist and "script doctor" before writing his own material. This included Woman of the Year, a film that won him an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1942. He also worked on th...Read more
(1990) Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
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(2000) Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
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(1996) Red Hollywood
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(1950) The Hollywood Ten
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(2001) The Majestic
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(2000) Altman on His Own Terms
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