Ring Lardner Jr.
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- August 19, 1915, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Died
- October 31, 2000
- Movies
- 25
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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 (1970). The script of the latter earned him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2021 | The Real Charlie Chaplin | Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | The Majestic | Self (Hollywood Ten, arrives, behind Biberman) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2000 | Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' | Self |
| 2000 | Altman on His Own Terms | Self |
| 1996 | Red Hollywood | Self |
| 1990 | Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey | Self |
| 1950 | The Hollywood Ten | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1977 | The Greatest | Writer |
| 1971 | Lady Liberty | Screenplay |
| 1970 | M*A*S*H | Screenplay |
| 1965 | The Cincinnati Kid | Screenplay |
| 1963 | The Cardinal | Screenplay |
| 1960 | A Breath of Scandal | Writer |
| 1959 | Virgin Island | Writer |
| 1951 | The Big Night | Screenplay |
| 1949 | The Forbidden Street | Screenplay |
| 1947 | Forever Amber | Writer |
| 1946 | Cloak and Dagger | Screenplay |
| 1945 | Brotherhood of Man | Writer |
| 1944 | Tomorrow, the World! | Screenplay |
| 1944 | Laura | Screenplay |
| 1943 | The Cross of Lorraine | Screenplay |
| 1942 | Woman of the Year | Screenplay |
| 1940 | The Courageous Dr. Christian | Writer |
| 1939 | Meet Dr. Christian | Screenplay |
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