Stirling Silliphant
Writing

Stirling Silliphant

Born 15 January 1918 · Detroit, Michigan, USA · Died 26 April 1996

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

Known for

Over the Top
In the Heat of the Night
The Towering Inferno
The Poseidon Adventure
The Enforcer
Village of the Damned
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Swarm
The Killer Elite
Telefon
Perry Mason
Charly
The General And Me
The Grass Harp
Day of Reckoning
Salween
Over the Top
The Three Kings
Catch the Heat
Fly Away Home
Golden Gate
When Time Ran Out...
Circle of Iron
The Swarm
Telefon
The Enforcer
The Killer Elite
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
Death Scream
The Towering Inferno
Shaft in Africa
A Time For Love
The Poseidon Adventure
The New Healers
The New Centurions
Longstreet
Murphy's War
A Walk in the Spring Rain
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Marlowe
Charly
In the Heat of the Night
Wings of Fire
The Slender Thread
Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing
Village of the Damned
The Silent Kill
The Lineup
Damn Citizen
Maracaibo
Nightfall
Huk!
5 Against the House
The Joe Louis Story
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