The Screen Actors Guild represented film and television performers.
 At a 1997 ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Blacklist, the Guild's president made this statement:Only our sister union, Actors Equity Association, had the courage to stand behind its members and help them continue their creative lives in the theater
== Rules and procedure ===== Becoming a member ===An actor was eligible to join the Screen Actors Guild by meeting the criteria in any of the following three categories: principal actor in a SAG production, background actor (originally the "three voucher rule"), and one-year member of an affiliated union (with a principal role)

