Budd Schulberg (born March 27 1914, in New York City, New York) is an American screenwriter and novelist.

Born Seymour Wilson Schulberg, he was Hollywood "royalty", the son of B.P. Schulberg, head of Paramount Pictures and Adeline Jafee-Schulberg, sister to agent/film producer Sam Jaffe. Budd Schulberg is best 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 A Face in the Crowd.

He 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 immediately volunteered to testify and appeared as a friendly witness. He testified that Party members had sought to influence the content of What Makes Sammy Run and "named names" of other alleged Hollywood communists. His testimony saw many of his colleagues added to the Hollywood blacklist.

Schulberg attended Deerfield Academy and then went on to Dartmouth College, where he was actively involved in the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern humor magazine. In 1939 he collaborated on the screenplay for Winter Carnival, a light comedy set at Dartmouth. One of his collaborators was F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was at the time attempting to pursue a Hollywood career. Dartmouth College awarded him an honorary degree in 1960.

In 1950 Schulberg published a novel, The Disenchanted, about a young screenwriter who collaborates on a screenplay about a college winter festival with a famous novelist at the nadir of his career. The novelist (who at the time was assumed by reviewers to be a thinly disguised portrait of Fitzgerald, dead ten years earlier) is portrayed as a tragic but contemptible figure, with whom the young screenwriter becomes disillusioned. According to the New York Times, it was the tenth bestselling novel in the United States in 1950. The Disenchanted was adapted to an off-Broadway play in the early-1960s and starred Jason Robards Jr..

In 1965, after a devastating riot had ripped apart the fabric of the Watts community in Los Angeles, Schulberg formed the Watts Writers Workshop as an attempt to ameliorate frustrations and bring artistic training to the economically impoverished district.

He is married to his fourth wife, Betsey, and has two children, Benn and Jessica. He resides in Westhampton, Long Island, New York. His niece Sandra Schulberg was an executive producer of the Academy Award nominated film Quills, among other movies.

Son of B.P. Schulberg, who ran Paramount Pictures in the 1930s.

Daughter: Jessica Adeline (1981)

Son: Benn Stuart (b. 1979)

Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, 2003.

Has two sons, Stephen (b. 1944) and David (b. 1946) by Virginia Anderson.

Has a daughter, Victoria (b. 1940) by Virginia "Jigee" Ray.

Was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame as a writer in 2003, when he was 89 years old.

The 1995 Broadway musical based on his screenplay for _On the Waterfront (1954)) was a flop, lasting only eight performances.

Although "What Makes Sammy Run?", his scathing look at Hollywood, was twice presented on television in New York-based productions in 1949 and 1959, and appeared on Broadway in a musical version with Steve Lawrence (I) playing Sammy that ran for 540 performances in the 1964-65 season, Hollywood itself has never made a version of the popular novel. Dreamworks acquired the rights to the novel from Warner Bros. for $2.6 million for a proposed version starring Ben Stiller, but that movie has yet to be green-lighted.

A movie industry insider, he published the damning expose of Hollywood "What Makes Sammy Run?" in 1941, creating the greatest of all Hollywood anti-heroes, Sammy Glick. The book made him persona non grata in Hollywood for years.

During the Writer's Guild of America strike in 1988, Schulberg spoke at a WGA meeting, beginning his remarks by saying he was probably the only person from the original 1937 WGA council who was still on the council.

John Wayne (I) considered Schulberg's book "What Makes Sammy Run?" part of a Communist plot, as the book deals with the formation of the Writers Guild of America. In fact, Schulberg had been a Communist Party member in the 1930s, and the Communist Party USA also attacked his book. Disillusioned with communism and what the USSR had devolved into under Stalin, he appeared as a friendly witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951 and named names.

Louis B. Mayer told his father, B.P. Schulberg, that his son should be deported. An exasperated B.P. replied that since Budd was a U.S. citizen raised in Hollywood, "Where the hell are you gonna deport him? Catalina Island?" Recounting the incident, Budd told journalist Catherine Seipp, "My father was a very, very intelligent man, but not as smart as Louis B. Mayer. And that remark is one of the things I think helped finish my father in Hollywood.".

Brother of Stuart Schulberg.

The 1995 Broadway musical based on his screenplay for On the Waterfront (1954) was a flop, lasting only eight performances