Stirling Silliphant
Born: 1918-01-15 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Died: 1996-04-26
Known For: Writing
Biography
Stirling Dale Silliphant (January 16, 1918 – April 26, 1996) was an American screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his screenplay for In the Heat of the Night, for which he won an Academy Award in 1967, and for creating the television series Naked City, Perry Mason, and Route 66. Other features as screenwriter include the Irwin Allen productions The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stirling Silliphant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
2017
- The General And Me ... (Writer)
1996
- The Grass Harp ... (Screenplay)
1994
- Day of Reckoning ... (Writer)
1993
- Salween ... (Writer)
- A Stranger in the Mirror ... (Teleplay)
1989
- Brotherhood of the Rose ... (Producer)
1987
- Over the Top ... (Screenplay)
- Catch the Heat ... (Writer)
- The Three Kings ... (Writer)
1985
- Mussolini: The Untold Story ... (Writer)
- Space ... (Teleplay)
1983
- Travis McGee ... (Teleplay)
1981
- Fly Away Home ... (Writer)
- Golden Gate ... (Writer)
1980
- When Time Ran Out... ... (Screenplay)
1979
- Salem's Lot ... (Executive Producer)
1978
- The Swarm ... (Screenplay)
- Circle of Iron ... (Screenplay)
- Pearl ... (Writer)
1977
- Telefon ... (Screenplay)
1976
- The Enforcer ... (Screenplay)
1975
- Death Scream ... (Writer)
- The Killer Elite ... (Screenplay)
- The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant ... (Writer)
1974
- The Towering Inferno ... (Screenplay)
1973
- Shaft in Africa ... (Writer)
- A Time For Love ... (Writer)
1972
- Movin' On ... (Original Series Creator)
- The Poseidon Adventure ... (Screenplay)
- The New Healers ... (Creator)
- The New Centurions ... (Screenplay)
1971
- Shaft ... (Executive Producer)
- Longstreet ... (Writer)
- Murphy's War ... (Screenplay)
- Longstreet ... (Writer)
1970
- The Liberation of L.B. Jones ... (Screenplay)
- A Walk in the Spring Rain ... (Screenplay)
1969
- Marlowe ... (Screenplay)
1968
- Charly ... (Screenplay)
1967
- In the Heat of the Night ... (Screenplay)
- Wings of Fire ... (Writer)
1965
- The Slender Thread ... (Writer)
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre ... (Writer)
1962
- Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing ... (Writer)
1960
- Route 66 ... (Writer)
- Village of the Damned ... (Screenplay)
1959
- Mr. Lucky ... (Writer)
- The Silent Kill ... (Writer)
- The Man from Blackhawk ... (Creator)
1958
- Naked City ... (Writer)
- The Lineup ... (Writer)
- Damn Citizen ... (Writer)
- Maracaibo ... (Screenplay)
1957
- Perry Mason ... (Writer)
- M Squad ... (Writer)
- Alcoa Theatre ... (Writer)
- Suspicion ... (Writer)
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ... (Writer)
- Nightfall ... (Writer)
- Huk! ... (Screenplay)
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents ... (Writer)
- 5 Against the House ... (Screenplay)
1953
- The Joe Louis Story ... (Producer)