Ring Lardner, Jr.

Ring Lardner, Jr.

1915-08-19 Chicago, Illinois, USA 30 Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 th...

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The Real Charlie Chaplin

The Real Charlie Chaplin

2021

7.5
Acting

A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.

The Majestic

The Majestic

2001

as Self (Hollywood Ten, arrives, behind Biberman) (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a lon...

Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'

2000

as Self

6.0
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie M*A*S*H. The documentary reveals all of the chaos, politics, and conflict that was going on behind...

Altman on His Own Terms

Altman on His Own Terms

2000

as Self

Acting

A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. The genius director who shook the cinema industry w...

Red Hollywood

Red Hollywood

1996

as Self

6.1
Acting

A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically different perspective on a key period in t...

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

1990

as Self

6.6
Acting

Documentary is about the life and work of American screenwriter Waldo Salt who won two Academy Awards and was put on the Hollywood blacklist in the 19...

Semi-Tough

Semi-Tough

1977

Additional Writing

5.6

A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become ro...

The Greatest

The Greatest

1977

Writer

5.7
Writing

Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic boxing triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of th...

Woman of the Year

Woman of the Year

1976

Original Film Writer

Writing

The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper.

Lady Liberty

Lady Liberty

1971

Dialogue, Screenplay

5.5
Writing

An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a hu...

The Deadly Trap

The Deadly Trap

1971

Additional Writing

5.3

An industrial espionage group calls on a retired spy living with his wife and children in Paris.

M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H

1970

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

The Cincinnati Kid

The Cincinnati Kid

1965

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

The Cardinal

The Cardinal

1963

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.

A Breath of Scandal

A Breath of Scandal

1960

Writer

5.1
Writing

A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.

Virgin Island

Virgin Island

1959

Writer

5.0
Writing

A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.

The Big Night

The Big Night

1951

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

A young man zigzags through the sordid vortex of downtown Los Angeles while seeking vengeance on the man that beat his father.

The Hollywood Ten

The Hollywood Ten

1950

as Self

6.6
Acting

A brief look at The Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters and directors charged with contempt of court after challenging the House Un-American Activ...

Swiss Tour

Swiss Tour

1949

Dialogue

8.0

A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.

The Forbidden Street

The Forbidden Street

1949

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarre...

Forever Amber

Forever Amber

1947

Writer

6.1
Writing

Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavalie...

Cloak and Dagger

Cloak and Dagger

1946

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

Brotherhood of Man

Brotherhood of Man

1945

Writer

6.0
Writing

Made from a pamphlet and financed by a union, the message that the similarities between people are greater than any racial differences, was part of a ...

Tomorrow, the World!

Tomorrow, the World!

1944

Screenplay

7.9
Writing

German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.

Laura

Laura

1944

Screenplay

7.6
Writing

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

The Cross of Lorraine

The Cross of Lorraine

1943

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.

Woman of the Year

Woman of the Year

1942

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hecti...

Arkansas Judge

Arkansas Judge

1941

Adaptation

Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.

The Courageous Dr. Christian

The Courageous Dr. Christian

1940

Writer

5.4
Writing

A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.

Meet Dr. Christian

Meet Dr. Christian

1939

Screenplay

Writing

The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve fund...