The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Directed by
Jay Roach
Elle Fanning
Nikola Trumbo
Helen Mirren
Hedda Hopper
John Goodman
Frank King
Bryan Cranston
Dalton Trumbo
Diane Lane
Cleo Trumbo
Stephen Root
Hymie King
Alan Tudyk
Ian McLellan Hunter
James Garner
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cary Grant
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Stuhlbarg
Edward G. Robinson
Lucille Ball
Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
Gregory Peck
Joe Bradley (archive footage) (uncredited)
Audrey Hepburn
Princess Ann (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Getz
Sam Wood
Jean Simmons
Varinia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Virgil Brooks
Deborah Kerr
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Laurence Olivier
Crassus (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lauren Bacall
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eddie Albert
Irving Radovich in Roman Holiday (archive footage) (uncredited)
Christian Berkel
Otto Preminger
Robert Taylor
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Danny Kaye
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Roger Bart
Buddy Ross
Sean Bridgers
Jeff Krandall
Richard Portnow
Louis B. Mayer
Louis C.K.
Arlen Hird
Peter MacKenzie
Robert Kenny
Dean O'Gorman
Kirk Douglas
David James Elliott
John Wayne
Madison Wolfe
Niki Trumbo (age 8-11)
James DuMont
J. Parnell Thomas
Mark Harelik
Ed Muhl
Dan Bakkedahl
Roy Brewer
Dane Rhodes
Reporter
Johnny Sneed
Robert Stripling
Rio Hackford
Reporter
Laura Flannery
Party Goer
Toby Nichols
Chris Trumbo (age 6-10) (as Tobias McDowell Nichols)