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Is Mitzi Trumbo's father, Dalton Trumbo, dead or alive?
Mitzi Trumbo's father, Dalton Trumbo, died on September 10, 1976 as he was 70 years old. His cause of death was heart attack.
Is Mitzi Trumbo's mother, Cleo Beth Fincher, dead or alive?
Cleo Beth Fincher's information is not available now.
Mitzi Trumbo - Biography
Mitzi Trumbo is known for her work on Stand and Deliver (1988), American Playhouse (1981) and Los Angeles History Project (1988).
She is the daughter of Dalton Trumbo. James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist who scripted many award-winning films including Roman Holiday, Exodus, Spartacus, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.
When Mitzi Trumbo was 15, she opened her front door to find one of Hollywood’s most famous actors standing outside. It was Kirk Douglas. A few days later, Laurence Olivier turned up. “He outstretched his hand for me to shake and the dog got in the way and he tripped over.”
Fifty-five years later, she still remembers how starstruck she felt. But besides the excitement, what Mitzi most recalls from those encounters was a feeling of frustration that she couldn’t brag about it to her high-school friends. Her father, Dalton Trumbo, was one of the most famous Hollywood screenwriters of his generation, both for his work (he wrote the Oscar-winning Roman Holiday, starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, and several novels) and for his leftwing politics.
