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
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1968
- Edgar Awards · 1968
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1968 · nominated
Filmography26 titles
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
In the Heat of the Night
Perry Mason
Village of the Damned
The Poseidon Adventure
The Slender Thread
The Towering Inferno
Nightfall
Salem's Lot
The Enforcer
Route 66
Mr. Lucky
Over the Top
Shaft
The Joe Louis Story
Murphy's War
Marlowe
The Grass Harp
The Killer Elite
A Walk in the Spring Rain
Naked City
Circle of Iron
When Time Ran Out...
Huk!
The Swarm
Catch the Heat