Stirling Silliphant
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1918-01-15 (78 years old)
Deathday
1996-04-26
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Also known As
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Stirling Silliphant
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
Production
1971
as Executive Producer
1972
as Screenplay
1987
as Screenplay
1969
as Screenplay
1967
as Screenplay
1976
as Screenplay
1974
as Screenplay
1977
as Screenplay
1975
as Screenplay
1958
as Writer
1978
as Screenplay
1978
as Story
1960
as Screenplay
1981
as Writer
1956
as Writer
1968
as Screenplay
1996
as Screenplay
1955
as Screenplay
1978
as Screenplay
1980
as Screenplay
1965
as Writer
1987
as Writer
1970
as Screenplay
1970
as Screenplay
1993
as Teleplay
1958
as Writer
1975
as Writer
1972
as Writer
1972
as Creator
1972
as Producer
1993
as Writer
1971
as Writer
1975
as Writer
1972
as Screenplay
1994
as Writer
1987
as Writer
1987
as Executive Producer
2017
as Writer
1972
as Original Series Creator
1956
as Novel
1956
as Screenplay
1981
as Producer
1971
as Screenplay
1958
as Screenplay
1970
as Producer
1973
as Writer
1959
as Writer
1955
as Producer
1973
as Producer
1973
as Writer
1973
as Director
1996
as Co-Producer
1981
as Writer
1967
as Writer
1983
as Teleplay
1953
as Producer
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