Budd Schulberg 1914-2009

Budd Schulberg testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951. He admitted having been a Communist in the 1930s and caused a storm by naming eight other Hollywood figures as 'fellow travellers', which led to them being blacklisted. But three years later he was the toast of Hollywood when he won an Oscar for his screenplay of 'On the Waterfront' - a story of mob corruption which has often been interpreted as a defence of informing.