Kim Hunter wasn't blacklister either

Hunter took a supporting role in the Ginger Rogers film ''Tender Comrade,'' about young women living communally during World War II, a film that was, beyond a doubt, pro-Soviet. It was cited, years later, as a reason that her name appeared in ''Red Channels,'' a 1950's pamphlet naming suspected Communist sympathizers.

Hunter said she traced her problems with the blacklist to a world peace symposium that she helped sponsor in 1949.

''Gradually it became sort of clear,'' she said. ''I think CBS was first. I was on the blacklist at CBS. No more CBS television. Then I think ABC dropped out and then, finally, it was NBC. And then by that time, I won my Oscar for the movie of 'Streetcar,' but I could not work in films. The last film I made was in 1951.''

She said her hiatus from the screen lasted until 1956, however the record says otherwise.

1959

Adventures in Paradise (TV Series)

The Lineup (TV Series)

Rawhide (TV Series)

The Arthur Murray Party (TV Series)

1958

Rendezvous (TV Series)

Alcoa Theatre (TV Series)

Money, Women and Guns (Film)

Lamp Unto My Feet (TV Series)

Make Me Laugh (TV Series)

Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series)

 1957

Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party (TV Series)

Person to Person (TV Series documentary)

The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (TV Series)

The Young Stranger (Film)

 1956

The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series)

Studio 57 (TV Series)

Bermuda Affair (Film)

Storm Center (Film)

1955

1955-1958 Climax! (TV Series)

Lux Video Theatre (TV Series)

Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series)

Star Tonight (TV Series)

Appointment with Adventure (TV Series)

Justice (TV Series)

Omnibus (TV Series)

Hollywood Preview (TV Series)

Igor Cassini's Million Dollar Showcase (TV Series)

1954

Janet Dean, Registered Nurse (TV Series)

The Tender Trap (Broadway)

She was pregnant in 1954 and gave birth to a son later that year.

 1953

The Gulf Playhouse (TV Series)

The 25th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)

 1952

The Chase  (Stage)

The Children’s Hour (Stage)

Darkness at Noon [Broadway]

Anything Can Happen (Film)

Deadline - U.S.A. (Film)

Celanese Theatre (TV Series)

 The Petrified Forest  (Film)

Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series)

A Streetcar Named Desire (Film)

1951

Your Show of Shows (TV Series)

The Tender Trap (Stage)

Darkness at Noon (Stage)

Luba (Stage original)

1950

1948-1950 Actor's Studio (TV Series)

 The Little Wife (1950)

Charles Irving wasn't blacklisted either

If actor Charles Irving (Zipperman) was blacklisted, its difficult to tell what he was blacklisted from. At best, his early career is lackluster and his later career after 959 didn’t improve much.

He entered show business in 1942. From 1942 through 1949, he made seven credits.  He was an uncredited voice in five of them. Six were film short and one was a television show.  Not much changed in his career during the time he was supposed to have been blacklisted and not working. From 1950 through 1958, he had 9 screen credits. He was an uncredited voice in 7 of them which were all shorts. In 1958 he did a walk-on on the Milton Berle Show and had a role in one film, A Face in the Crowd, in 1957

1958

The Milton Berle Show (TV Series)

Record Company Executive

- Episode dated 19 November 1958 (1958) ... Record Company Executive

1957

 1957A Face in the Crowd

Mr. Luffler

1953

1953Invention Convention (Short)

Narrator (voice, uncredited)

1952

 1952Off We Glow (Short)

Narrator (voice, uncredited)

1951

 1951Miners Forty-Niners (Short)

Narrator (voice, uncredited)

 1951Drippy Mississippi (Short)

Narrator (voice, uncredited)

 1951Tweet Music (Short)

1950

Narrator (voice, uncredited)

 1950Helter Swelter (Short)

Narrator (voice, uncredited)

 1950Blue Hawaii (Short)

Charles Korvin wasn't blacklisted

Charles Korvin was a Hungarian born actor who moved to the US in 1940. According to the New York Times Korvin was blacklisted around 1951 for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities and did not work in Hollywood for 10 years, until the director Stanley Kramer invited him to be in his 1965 film ''Ship of Fools.''

Well, no.

From 1944, the year of his first US film, until 1951, he made only five films and five television appearances. From 1952 until 1959 he made 34 television appearances and four films. Pretty good for a guy who was blacklisted.

I could find no record of Korvin being called before the HUAC, ever.

The Loretta Young Show (TV Series)

Leo Unten / Boleslaw Sublinski

- The Night the Doorbell Rang (1960) ... Leo Unten

- Friends at a Distance (1957) ... Boleslaw Sublinski

 1959-1960Interpol Calling (TV Series)

Inspector Duval / Inspector Paul Duval

- The Absent Assassin (1960) ... Inspector Duval

- Pipeline (1960) ... Inspector Duval

- Desert Hi-Jack (1960) ... Inspector Duval

- Cargo of Death (1960) ... Inspector Duval

- Dressed to Kill (1960) ... Inspector Duval

Show all 39 episodes

  

 1958Zorro (TV Series)

Jose Sebastian Varga 'The Eagle'

- The Eagle's Flight (1958) ... Jose Sebastian Varga 'The Eagle'

- Bernardo Faces Death (1958) ... Jose Sebastian Varga 'The Eagle'

- The Eagle Leaves the Nest (1958) ... Jose Sebastian Varga 'The Eagle'

- The Sergeant Regrets (1958) ... Jose Sebastian Varga 'The Eagle'

- The Tightening Noose (1958) ... Jose Sebastian Varga 'The Eagle'

Show all 6 episodes

 1957-1958Playhouse 90 (TV Series)

Marquis / Dr. Von Neff

- The Violent Heart (1958) ... Marquis

- The Blackwell Story (1957) ... Dr. Von Neff

   

 1957The Alcoa Hour (TV Series)

Von Zimmer

- Hostages to Fortune (1957) ... Von Zimmer

 1957The Ford Television Theatre (TV Series)

Bruce Van Cleve

- Singapore (1957) ... Bruce Van Cleve

 1957Studio 57 (TV Series)

- Explosion (1957)

 1957Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series)

Rupert Farrand

- The Last Train to Kildevil (1957) ... Rupert Farrand

 1957The Millionaire (TV Series)

Anton Bohrman / Anton Kosleck

- The Anton Bohrman Story (1957) ... Anton Bohrman / Anton Kosleck

 1956Omnibus (TV Series)

Narrator (segment "The Spirit of Freedom")

- The Christmas Tie (1956) ... Narrator (segment "The Spirit of Freedom")

 1956Thunderstorm

Pablo Gardea

 1956The Honeymooners (TV Series)

Carlos Sanchez

- Mama Loves Mambo (1956) ... Carlos Sanchez (uncredited)

1955-1957Climax! (TV Series)

Dr. Andre Demerre / General Steck

- The Stranger Within (1957) ... Dr. Andre Demerre

- The Passport (1955) ... General Steck

 1955The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)

Heinrich Bauer

- Scandal at Peppernut (1955) ... Heinrich Bauer

 1954Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson (TV Series)

- If Speech Be Silvern (1954)

 1953The Philip Morris Playhouse (TV Series)

- The Sacrifice (1953)

 1953Sangaree

Felix Pagnol

 1952Lydia Bailey

Col. Gabriel D'autremont

 1952Tarzan's Savage Fury

Rokov, Russian Agent

 1950-1957Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series)

Philip Hausman / El Cameron / Gastman / ...

- The Dark Intruder (1957) ... Philip Hausman

- Johnny August (1956) ... El Cameron

- The Judge and the Hangman (1955) ... Gastman

- Fatal in My Fashion (1954)

- A Man and Two Gods (1954) ... Julian Wilder

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Mickey Knox seems to have blackisted himself.

Mickey Knox (Born Abraham Bullistein) Claimed he was blacklisted during the McCarthy era and was forced to move to Paris and Rome to work. But there is something not right about his story.

Knox, who at best was a bit part player and extra, claimed that he was blacklisted because he signed a petition called “The Thomas Rankin Committee Must Go” and that he had attended the Actor’s Lab, a Communist front. He said that his signature on a friends of the court document to the US Supreme Court to hear the case against John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo, who were writers with the Hollywood Ten, is the true reason his career was blacklisted. But more than a thousand actors signed the Rankin petition and several hundred actors  signed the Supreme Court petition and they weren’t blacklisted.  

Knox said that he learned he was blacklisted in 1956. He made his last appearance in the US in the fall of 1957, so it’s safe to assume he left the US  later that year. He returned to the US  from Europe on January 23, 1959, meaning he was “exiled” as he put it, for two years.

It seems that Knox couldn’t cut it as an actor, producer or writer in Hollywood (He would do all of those things later in his career)  and he “fled” to Europe claiming to be a blacklisted actor.

Knox made six film in 1949 and was uncredited in one of them and fewer than 3 lines in the others. He made one film in 1948, a bit part and two in 1947

1950

Destination Big House

Western Pacific Agent

Outside the Wall

1951

1Saturday's Hero

Criminal Lawyer

Danger (TV Series)

Up Front

No credits for 1952

1953

Campbell Summer Soundstage (TV Series)

Vice Squad (uncredited)

1954

Garden of Eden

1955

The Naked Street (Actor)

Man in Crowd (uncredited)

Treasury Men in Action (TV Series)

TV Reader's Digest (TV Series)

The Lone Ranger (TV Series)

 Dan Reid's Sacrifice

The Naked Street (dialogue director)

1956

Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal (TV Series)

Adventures of Superman (TV Series)

Singing in the Dark (Actor)

Singing in the Dark (dialogue director)

1957

The Sea Wall (dialogue coach) 1957

Norman Lloyd wasn't blacklisted or gray listed or any other kind of listed that would harm his career

Norman Lloyd (born Norman Perlmutter; November 8, 1914) called “A marginal victim of the Hollywood blacklist” but even that isn’t true. There isn’t one year in the entire 1950s when Lloyd wasn’t gainfully employed in Hollywood.

1950

King Lear (Stage)    

December 25, 1950 – February 3, 1951    

Buccaneer's Girl (Director)

The Flame and the Arrow (Director)

Apollo (Film-actor)

Buccaneer's Girl (Film actor)

1951  

The Cocktail Party (director)

The Adventures of Kit Carson (TV Series)

The Light Touch

He Ran All the Way

M

Flame of Stamboul

1952  

The Lady's Not for Burning (director)

1952-1955

Omnibus (TV Series) (6 episodes)

Chevron Theatre (TV Series) (8 episodes)

Gruen Guild Theater (TV Series) (3 episodes)

Limelight (Film-actor)

1953  

I Am a Camera (director)

           

1954 

Madame Will You Walk (Stage)                

Madame Will You Walk (director)           

The Winslow Boy (Director)

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (TV Series) (3 episodes)

The Caine Mutiny (Broadway-1954-1955)

1955  

Don Juan in Hell (Stage)

The Rainmaker (Director)

Word to the Wives... (Short)

The Caine Mutiny (Broadway-1954-1955)

1956 

Measure for Measure (Stage)

The Taming of the Shrew (Director)

The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)

Kraft Theatre (TV Series)

1957  

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series) Producer 1957-1962 184 episodes

The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV series)

General Electric Theater (TV series)

Suspicion (TV Series) (assistant to the producer - 6 episodes, 1957 - 1958) (assistant to producer - 1 episode, 1957)

1958 

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series)                 

1959 

Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (TV series)

Doubtfully Blacklisted : Paula Miller (Strasberg)

Paula Strasberg was 49 at the height of the blacklist era, ancient for a female actress in Hollywood standards of the day. Strasberg has no film or television credits prior to the late 1960s and had last appeared on Broadway in 1948.  If anything, her film and TV credit resume was developed during the 1950s. She worked in 1957, as a dialogue coach for Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl and again in 1959 on Some Like It Hot. She appeared on The Arlene Francis Show in 1957.

Doubtfully blacklisted: Lesley Woods.

Lesley Woods. Wood had no prior film/TV credits prior to 1951. Prior to that, she was a radio actress with a brief stint in theater. She was not called before the HUAC and there is no mention of her being blacklisted in the 1950s except the same sources that allege she was blacklisted but share no evidence.

1959

Young Doctor Malone TV

1958

True Story TV

2 episodes

1956

Robert Montgomery Presents TV

2 episodes

The Edge of Night TV

1951

The Guiding Light TV

1950

The Search for Tomorrow TV

Burgess Meredith: Very very doubtfully blacklisted

If Burgess Meredith was blacklisted, he was the busiest blacklisted actor in the history of Hollywood. Not listed here are his extensive credits on radio and as a TV commercial pitchman (Mostly voice-over)

He claimed that in 1947 when the  House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) subpoenaed a group of film writers because of alleged Communist affiliations, that he took to the streets and protested and had to flee to England to find work.

I could find no mention of him speaking out against the HUAC, in newspapers or magazine, from 1946-1950

1947

Mine Own Executioner (Film)

The Playboy of the Western World (1946-1947)

1948

On Our Merry Way (Film)

1949

Jigsaw (Film uncredited)

A Yank Comes Back

Golden Arrow

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

The Gay Adventure

he Man on the Eiffel Tower

The Silver Theatre (TV Series)

The Ford Theatre Hour (TV Series)

1950

Works of Calder as Narrator

Your Show of Shows – 2 episodes – Himself

Robert Montgomery Presents – episode – Ride the Pink Horse – Himself/Frank Hugo

Happy as Larry [Broadway]

Lights Out (TV Series)

Repertory Theatre (TV Series)

The Billy Rose Show (TV Series)

Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series)

Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series)

Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series)

Your Show of Shows (TV Series)

The Ken Murray Show (TV Series)

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV Series)

The Milton Berle Show (TV Series)

1951

Lights Out (TV Series)

The Fourposter [Broadway]

The Little Blue Light [Broadway]

1952

Omnibus (TV Series)

The Name's the Same –Himself

Theatre Guild on the Air

Lux Video Theatre (TV Series)

Celanese Theatre (TV Series)

1953

Excursion (TV Series documentary)

Omnibus (TV Series)

Tales of Tomorrow 3 episodes (TV Series)

Theatre Guild on the Air

The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker [Broadway]

The Teahouse of the August Moon [Broadway]

1954

Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Invisible Man

General Electric Theater (TV Series)

Omnibus (TV Series)

The Arthur Murray Party (TV Series)

1955

Omnibus (TV Series)

The Big Story – 38 episodes – Narrator (1955–1958)

General Electric Theater (TV Series)

What's My Line

1956

What's My Line? (TV Series)

Major Barbara [Broadway, ran the entire year]

Speaking of Murder (Broadway, producer)

1957

Albert Schweitzer (Documentary)

Suspicion (TV Series)

The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)

Joe Butterfly(Film)

Director Playhouse 90

The Big Story

1958

Film The Kidnappers

Sorcerer's Village  as Narrator

The Ben Hecht Show

The Kidnappers

General Electric Theater (TV Series)

The Big Story (TV Series)

1959

America Pauses for Springtime as Himself

The Jack Paar Tonight Show Himself

The Twilight Zone

Our American Heritage (TV Series)

Sunday Showcase (TV Series)

Ah, Wilderness! (TV Movie)

he DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series)

The Human Comedy ... Narrator

The Jack Paar Tonight Show (TV Series)

America Pauses for the Merry Month of May (TV Movie)

America Pauses for Springtime (TV Special)

The Arthur Murray Party (TV Series)

The Big Story (TV Series)