Gore Vidal

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-10-03 (87 years old)

Deathday

2012-07-31

Place of Birth

West Point, New York, USA

Gore Vidal

Biography

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. He unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the U.S. House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the U.S. Senate (for California). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gore Vidal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1997

Gattaca

as Director Josef

1992

Bob Roberts

as Senator Brickley Paiste

2004

1959

Suddenly, Last Summer

as Audience Member at Operation (uncredited)

2008

Obscene

as Self

1993

2006

2002

Igby Goes Down

as First School Headmaster (uncredited)

2010

2015

2010

Public Speaking

as Self (archive footage)

1946

Ritual in Transfigured Time

as Man (uncredited)

1994

With Honors

as Prof. Pitkannan

2005

Why We Fight

as Self - Author, "Imperial America"

2009

Shrink

as George Charles

1972

Roma

as Gore Vidal (uncredited)

1994

2002

The Cockettes

as Self (archive footage)

2013

Salinger

as Self - Writer

1964

The Best Man

as Delegate (uncredited)

1989

Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid

as Preacher (uncredited)

1967

Production

1966

Is Paris Burning?

as Screenplay

1958

The Left Handed Gun

as Theatre Play

1959

1979

Caligula

as Original Story

1956

The Catered Affair

as Screenplay

1970

1958

I Accuse!

as Screenplay

1964

The Best Man

as Story

1964

The Best Man

as Screenplay

1990

1959

The Scapegoat

as Adaptation

1954

1955

1967

1960

1987

The Sicilian

as Screenplay

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