Waldo Salt

Waldo Salt was an American screenwriter who won Academy Awards for both Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home.

Salt's career in Hollywood was interrupted when he was blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951. Like many other blacklisted writers, while he was unable to work in Hollywood, Salt wrote under a pseudonym for the British television series The Adventures of Robin Hood.

After the collapse of the blacklist, Salt won Academy Awards for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for his work on Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home, as well as earning a nomination for Serpico. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)

Sources

• "Waldo Salt." TCM. < link > Accessed 2 June 2023.
• "Waldo Salt." Wikipedia, revision of 30 December 2022. < link > Accessed 1 June 2023.