Budd Schulberg

Screenwriter, born in New York City, New York, USA. Growing up in Hollywood as the son of early film producer Benjamin P Schulberg, he started working at age 17 as a publicist for Paramount, becoming a scriptwriter at 19. His 1941 novel What Makes Sammy Run? was an inside look at Hollywood. During World War 2 he made documentary films with John Ford. Having flirted with Communism in the 1930s, he named certain Hollywood colleagues as fellow travellers during the McCarthy era. He won an Academy Award for the screenplay and story for On The Waterfront (1954).

Budd Schulberg (born March 27, 1914 in New York City, New York) is an American screenwriter and novelist.

He was Hollywood "royalty", the son of B.P. Budd Schulberg is best known for his 1941 novel, What Makes Sammy Run, his 1947 novel The Harder They Fall, his 1954 Academy-award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront, and his 1957 screenplay A Face in the Crowd.

He encountered political controversy in 1951 when screenwriter Richard Collins, testifying to the House Un-American Activities Committee, named Schulberg as a former member of the Communist Party.

Schulberg attended Deerfield Academy and then went on to Dartmouth College, where he was actively involved in the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern humor magazine.

In 1950 Schulberg published a novel, The Disenchanted, about a young screenwriter who collaborates on a screenplay about a college winter festival with a famous novelist at the nadir of his career.

In 1965, after a devastating riot had ripped apart the fabric of the Watts community in Los Angeles, Schulberg formed the Watts Writers Workshop as an attempt to ameliorate frustrations and bring artistic training to the economically impoverished district.

He is married to his fourth wife, Betsey, and has two children, Benn and Jessica.