Early in his Hollywood career, he fronted for blacklisted
screenwriter
Dalton Trumbo on the 1950 film-noir crime classic
Gun Crazy (1950). In 1992 Kaufman officially requested that the Writers Guild of
America West take his name off the credits and replace it with Trumbo's
name. "Any time I had speaking engagements where they included that
film in my credits, I always set the record straight anyway," he
said.