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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Jr.
Ring Lardner, Jr.
Writing
Biography
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Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner Jr. (August 19, 1915 – October 31, 2000) was an American journalist and screenwriter blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s.
Ring Lardner Jr. moved to Hollywood where he worked as a publicist and "script doctor" before writing his own material. This included Woman of the Year, a film that won him an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1942. He also worked on the scripts for the films Laura (1944), Brotherhood of Man (1946), Forever Amber (1947), and M*A*S*H (…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
The Real Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage)
The Majestic
as Self (Hollywood Ten, arrives, behind Biberman) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
as Self
Red Hollywood
as Self
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
as Self
The Hollywood Ten
as Self