The Hollywood Blacklist Myth : 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

The problems we have with the Hollywood left

The problem we have with the Hollywood left is it's the notion that accepting differences is no longer good enough, you have to be complicit in them. The problem we have with the Hollywood left it's the notion that any differing opinion is a threat to your very way of existence but never the opposite. The problem we have with the Hollywood left is the blatant hypocrisy of claiming to care about democracy well on abashedly striving to take control of every step of the political process. The problem we have with the Hollywood left is the notion that any idea or opinion outside of your own ideology is morally repugnant and therefore needs to be silenced. The problem we have with the Hollywood left is the notion that your goals must be achieved using everyone resources regardless on whether they agree. The problem we have with the Hollywood left is their supporting of rights situationally when convenient and the outright rejection of those rights when it's in it's the inconvenient for you. The problem we have with the Hollywood left isthat somehow you know what's best for me enough to allow the government to make that choice for me The problem we have with the Hollywood left it's their failure to see the irony in labeling anyone different than yourself as an extremist or a fundamentalist. Originally written by Jason Blood. Edited for this page.