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.
as Dalton Trumbo
as Cleo Trumbo
as Hedda Hopper
as Nikola Trumbo
as Arlen Hird
as Frank King
as Edward G. Robinson
as John Wayne
as Buddy Ross
as Ed Muhl
as Sam Wood
as Ian McLellan Hunter
as J. Parnell Thomas
as Louis B. Mayer
as Virgil Brooks
as Hymie King
as Chris Trumbo (Age 13-17)
as Kirk Douglas
as Andrew Hird
as Otto Preminger
as Roy Brewer
as Chris Trumbo (age 6-10) (as Tobias McDowell Nichols)
as Himself (archive footage)
as Party Goer
as Niki Trumbo (age 8-11)
as Robert Stripling
as Reporter
as Reporter
as Robert Kenny
as Jury Foreman
as Jeff Krandall
as Mitzi Trumbo (age 6-8)
as Mitzi Trumbo (age 9-12)
as Edward 'Ed' Muhl
as Starlet (uncredited)
as Ethel (uncredited)
as Showgirl (uncredited)
as Trumbo Friend (uncredited)
as Showgirl (uncredited)
as Juror (uncredited)