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Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair

Actor, Writer, Producer

Born September 20, 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Died November 25, 1968

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Upton Sinclair Jr. was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.

In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muck-raking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States. Four years after the publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence".He is also well remembered for the line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." He used this line in speeches and the book about his campaign for governor as a way to explain why the editors and publishers of the major newspapers in California would not treat seriously his proposals for old age pensions and other progressive reforms.

Many of his novels can be read as historical works. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized America from both the working man's and the industrialist's points of view. Novels such as King Coal (1917), The Coal War (published posthumously), Oil! (1927), and The Flivver King (1937) describe the working conditions of the coal, oil, and auto industries at the time.

The Flivver King describes the rise of Henry Ford, his "wage reform", and the company's Sociological Department to his decline into antisemitism as publisher of The Dearborn Independent. King Coal confronts John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and his role in the 1913 Ludlow Massacre in the coal fields of Colorado.

Sinclair was an outspoken socialist and ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a nominee from the Socialist Party. He was also the Democratic Party candidate for Governor of California during the Great Depression, running under the banner of the End Poverty in California campaign, but was defeated in the 1934 elections.

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Filmography

Actor

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Type

Year

Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times Poster

Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times Documentary2009Self

The Great Depression Poster

The Great Depression TV Series1993Self California Gubenatorial Candidate

The Jungle Poster

The Jungle Feature Film1914Self

Writer

11

Type

Year

There Will Be Blood Poster

There Will Be Blood Feature Film2007

The Gnome-Mobile Poster

The Gnome-Mobile Feature Film1967

The Magical World of Disney Poster

The Magical World of Disney TV Series1954

Damaged Goods Poster

Damaged Goods Feature Film1937

The Wet Parade Poster

The Wet Parade Feature Film1932

Jimmie Higgins Poster

Jimmie Higgins Feature Film1928

The Money Changers Poster

The Money Changers Feature Film1920

Kutató Sámuel Feature Film1919

Az elítélt Poster

Az elítélt Feature Film1917

The Adventurer Poster

The Adventurer Feature Film1917

The Jungle Poster

The Jungle Feature Film1914

Producer

8

Type

Year

Sergey Eyzenshteyn. Meksikanskaya fantasiya Poster

Sergey Eyzenshteyn. Meksikanskaya fantasiya Documentary1998

Que Viva Mexico Poster

Que Viva Mexico Documentary1979

Time in the Sun Poster

Time in the Sun Documentary1940

Death Day Poster

Death Day Short Film1934

Eisenstein in Mexico Poster

Eisenstein in Mexico Documentary1933

Thunder Over Mexico Poster

Thunder Over Mexico Feature Film1933

¡Que viva Mexico! Poster

¡Que viva Mexico! Feature Film1932

The Jungle Poster

The Jungle Feature Film1914

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