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Waldo Salt
Highest Rated: 100% The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Lowest Rated: 20% The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971)
Birthday: Oct 18, 1914
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Although his name recognition was not as great as the Hollywood Ten's Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner Jr., Waldo Salt took the same unpopular stand of conscience as they, refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The former drama teacher had received his first credit as a screenwriter for "The Shopworn Girl" (1938), reportedly worked uncredited on "The Philadelphia Story" (1940) and adapted "The Wild Man of Borneo" (1941) from a play by Marc Connelly and Herman Mankiewicz, among his projects, before World War II interrupted his career. Returning from overseas, he scripted "Rachel and the Stranger" (1948) and "The Flame and the Arrow" (1950), but the Hollywood blacklist would lock him out, stealing a decade from his working life. His next credit as Waldo Salt came for "Taras Bulba" (1962), adapted with Karl Tunberg from the Nikolai Gogol novel.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83% | 83% | Coming Home | Screenwriter | - | 1978 |
| 63% | 76% | The Day of the Locust | Screenwriter | - | 1975 |
| 93% | 88% | Serpico | Screenwriter | - | 1973 |
| 20% | 25% | The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight | Screenwriter | - | 1971 |
| 89% | 88% | Midnight Cowboy | Screenwriter | $201.0K | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | Taras Bulba | Screenwriter | - | 1962 |
| 83% | 82% | Blast of Silence | Writer | - | 1961 |
| 100% | 60% | The Flame and the Arrow | Screenwriter | - | 1950 |
| 67% | 64% | Rachel and the Stranger | Screenwriter | - | 1948 |
| 100% | 93% | The Philadelphia Story | Writer | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 77% | The Shopworn Angel | Screenwriter | - | 1938 |