He was subpoenaed to testify before the House Un-American Activities
Committee. He was never called, but an acquaintance named him before
the committee, and he was fired from a studio and blacklisted.
Led the protest against the honorary Oscar awarded to director Elia Kazan
in 1999.
Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Writers
Branch).
[1997 interview in the New York Times] The action by the guild
[restoring some of his writing credits] comes about 40 years too late
to help my Hollywood career. I sure am angry at the way I was treated
by all the major studios. They blacklisted me, and I couldn't get any
work in this damn town.
[on the all-star cast of "55 Days At Peking" (1963)]: They were all a bunch of prima donnas.