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-…
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Filmography
Crew (76)
Movies (58)
The General And Me
2017Writer
The Grass Harp
1996Co-Producer
The Grass Harp
1996Screenplay
Day of Reckoning
1994Writer
A Stranger in the Mirror
1993Teleplay
Salween
1993Writer
Over the Top
1987Screenplay
Catch the Heat
1987Executive Producer
Catch the Heat
1987Writer
The Three Kings
1987Writer
Travis McGee
1983Teleplay
Fly Away Home
1981Producer
Fly Away Home
1981Writer
Golden Gate
1981Writer
When Time Ran Out...
1980Screenplay
Circle of Iron
1978Screenplay
Circle of Iron
1978Story
The Swarm
1978Screenplay
Telefon
1977Screenplay
The Enforcer
1976Screenplay
The Killer Elite
1975Screenplay
Death Scream
1975Writer
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
1975Writer
The Towering Inferno
1974Screenplay
Shaft in Africa
1973Producer
Shaft in Africa
1973Writer
A Time For Love
1973Director
A Time For Love
1973Producer
A Time For Love
1973Writer
The Poseidon Adventure
1972Screenplay
The New Healers
1972Creator
The New Healers
1972Producer
The New Healers
1972Writer
Movin' On
1972Original Series Creator
The New Centurions
1972Screenplay
Shaft
1971Executive Producer
Murphy's War
1971Screenplay
Longstreet
1971Writer
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970Screenplay
A Walk in the Spring Rain
1970Producer
A Walk in the Spring Rain
1970Screenplay
Marlowe
1969Screenplay
Charly
1968Screenplay
Wings of Fire
1967Writer
In the Heat of the Night
1967Screenplay
The Slender Thread
1965Writer
Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing
1962Writer
Village of the Damned
1960Screenplay
The Silent Kill
1959Writer
The Lineup
1958Writer
Damn Citizen
1958Writer
Maracaibo
1958Screenplay
Nightfall
1956Writer
Huk!
1956Novel
Huk!
1956Screenplay
5 Against the House
1955Producer
5 Against the House
1955Screenplay
The Joe Louis Story
1953Producer
Television (18)
Brotherhood of the Rose
1989Producer
Space
1985Teleplay
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985Writer
Salem's Lot
1979Executive Producer
Pearl
1978Writer
Longstreet
1971Producer
Longstreet
1971Writer
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963Writer
Route 66
1960Writer
Mr. Lucky
1959Writer
Naked City
1958Writer
Perry Mason
1957Writer
Suspicion
1957Writer
M Squad
1957Writer
Alcoa Theatre
1957Writer
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956Writer
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955Teleplay
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955Writer
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