Stirling Silliphant
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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
Credits
Over the Top (1987)
Screenplay
The Enforcer (1976)
Screenplay
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Screenplay
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Screenplay
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Screenplay
The Swarm (1978)
Screenplay
Village of the Damned (1960)
Screenplay
The Grass Harp (1996)
Screenplay
Murphy's War (1971)
Screenplay
Telefon (1977)
Screenplay
The Killer Elite (1975)
Screenplay
Marlowe (1969)
Screenplay
The New Centurions (1972)
Screenplay
When Time Ran Out... (1980)
Screenplay
Maracaibo (1958)
Screenplay
Circle of Iron (1978)
Screenplay
Charly (1968)
Screenplay
5 Against the House (1955)
Screenplay
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
Screenplay
A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970)
Screenplay
Huk! (1956)
Screenplay