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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
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
2001
as Self (Hollywood Ten, arrives, behind Biberman) (archive footage) (uncredited)
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
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
2000
as Self
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
1996
as Self
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
1990
as Self
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
1977
Additional Writing
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
1977
Writer
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
1976
Original Film Writer
The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper.

Lady Liberty
1971
Dialogue, Screenplay
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
1971
Additional Writing
An industrial espionage group calls on a retired spy living with his wife and children in Paris.

M*A*S*H
1970
Screenplay
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
1965
Screenplay
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
1963
Screenplay
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
1960
Writer
A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.

Virgin Island
1959
Writer
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
1951
Screenplay
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
1950
as Self
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
1949
Dialogue
A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.

The Forbidden Street
1949
Screenplay
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
1947
Writer
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
1946
Screenplay
Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

Brotherhood of Man
1945
Writer
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!
1944
Screenplay
German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.

Laura
1944
Screenplay
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

The Cross of Lorraine
1943
Screenplay
French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.

Woman of the Year
1942
Screenplay
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
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
1940
Writer
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
1939
Screenplay
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...