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Adrian Scott
American film producer (1911–1972)
This article is about the American screenwriter.
Adrian scott biography
For other uses, see Adrian Scott (disambiguation).
For other people named Robert Scott, see Robert Scott (disambiguation).
Robert Adrian Scott (February 6, 1911 – December 25, 1972) was an American screenwriter and film producer.
He was one of the Hollywood Ten and later blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses.
Life and career
Early life
Scott was born in Arlington, New Jersey, the son of successful Irish Catholic parents — his father worked in middle management for the New York Telephone Company.
Arlington was one of the centers of the American textile industry, a key site in the history of industrial capitalism and a hotbed of radical labor agitation. Arlington is 12 miles south of Paterson, where the 1913 strike of 25,000 silk workers brought together socialists, Wobblies, and Greenwich Village intellectuals.
In 1926, when Scott was 15, 20,000 textile workers