Budd Schulberg, screenwriter, novelist and producer, has died in his home in Westhampton, New York, aged 95.  He was 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 for A Face in the Crowd.

Budd Schulberg, 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, New York City

Schulberg 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 testified as a friendly witness that Party members had sought to influence the content of What Makes Sammy Run and “named names” of other alleged Hollywood communists.

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