Dalton Trumbo

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1905 age 0

   Born

2. 1940 age 35

   CreditKitty Foylescreenwriter

3. 1950 age 45

   CreditGun Crazyscreenwriter

4. 1953 age 48

   CreditRoman Holidayscreenwriter

5. 1960 age 55

   CreditExodusscreenwriter

   CreditSpartacusscreenwriter

6. 1965 age 60

   CreditThe Sandpiperscreenwriter

7. 1966 age 61

   CreditHawaiiscreenwriter

8. 1971 age 66

   CreditJohnny Got His Gundirector

   CreditJohnny Got His Gunscreenwriter

9. 1973 age 68

   CreditPapillon

   CreditPapillonscreenwriter

   CreditThe Way We Werescreenwriter

10. 1976 age 70

    Died

11. 1989 age 70

    CreditAlwaysscreenwriter

12. 2015 age 70

    CreditTrumbo

• PBPeter Brocco3 titles
• AHAudrey Hepburn3 titles
• RFRichard Farnsworth2 titles
• JGJohn Goodman2 titles
• DJDorothy Jeakins2 titles
• VYVictor Young2 titles
• GPGregory Peck2 titles
• RSRobert Swink2 titles
• LOLaurence Olivier2 titles
• JDJohn Dall2 titles

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• Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.

  Dalton Trumbo, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Never again to wiggle your toes. What a hell of a thing, what a wonderful, beautiful thing, to wiggle your toes.

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• Did anybody ever come back from the dead, any single one of the millions who got killed, did any one of them ever come back and say by god I’m glad I’m dead because death is always better than dishonor? Did they say I’m glad i died to make the world safe for democracy? Did they say i like death better than losing liberty? Did any of them ever say it’s good to think i got my guts blown out for the honor of my country? Did any of them ever say look at me i’m dead but i died for decency and that’s better than being alive? Did any of them ever say here i am, i’ve been rotting for two years in a foreign grave but it’s wonderful to die for your native land? Did any of them say hurray I died for womanhood and I’m happy, see how I sing even though my mouth is choked with worms?

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• No sir, anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddamn fool and the guy who got him there was a liar. Next time anybody came gabbling to him about liberty — what did he mean next time? There wasn't going to be any next time for him. But the hell with that. If there could be a next time and somebody said "let's fight for liberty", he would say mister my life is important. I'm not a fool and when I swap my life for liberty I've got to know in advance what liberty is, and whose idea of liberty we're talking about and just how much of that liberty we're going to have. And what's more mister — are you as much interested in liberty as you want me to be? And maybe too much liberty will be as bad as too little liberty and I think you're a goddamn fourflusher talking through your hat, and I've already decided that I like the liberty I've got right here. The liberty to walk and see and hear and talk and eat and sleep with my girl. I think I like that

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• There's nothing noble about dying. Not even if you die for honor. Not even if you die the greatest hero the world ever saw. Not even if you're so great your name will never be forgotten and who's that great? The most important thing is your life, little guys. You're worth nothing dead except for speeches. Don't let them kid you any more. Pay no attention when they tap you on the shoulder and say come along we've got to fight for liberty, or whatever their word is. There's always a word.

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• Just say "mister I'm sorry, I got no time to die, I'm too busy" and then turn and run like hell. If they say coward why don't pay any attention because it's your job to live not to die. If they talk about dying for principles that are bigger than life, you say "mister you're a liar. Nothing is bigger than life". There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about lying in the ground and rotting? What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead? Because when you're dead, mister, it's all over. It's the end. You're less than a dog, less than a rat, less than a bee or an ant, less than a white maggot crawling around on a dungheap. You're dead, mister, and you died for nothing.

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