Biography for
Waldo Salt More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

18 October 1914, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Date of Death

7 March 1987, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name

Waldo Pressman Salt

Mini Biography

Waldo Salt was one of the many people blacklisted in Hollywood during the Red Scare, but unlike others, Salt recovered triumphantly. He wrote his first scripts in the late 1930s (MGM contract writer, 1936-42) and also served as a civilian consultant to the Office of War Information from 1942- 1945 before being blacklisted in 1951 after refusing to testify before HUAC. Salt spent several years writing under assumed names for various television series (low-budget series such as "Colonel March of Scotland Yard," for example) and undistinguished films before slowly turning his career around, working in more widely seen television and eventually winning two Oscars for his later work in film.

IMDb Mini Biography By: anonymous

Spouse

Eve Merriam	(? - 7 March 1987) (his death)
Mary Davenport	(? - ?) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Father of Jennifer Salt

In his honor there was a screenwriting award named after him.

Graduated from Stanford aged 18.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 758-759. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

Browse biographies section by name

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z