Stirling Silliphant
Born:
1918-01-15
From:
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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
Writing
The General And Me
The Grass Harp
Day of Reckoning
A Stranger in the Mirror
Salween
The Three Kings
Catch the Heat
Over the Top
Travis McGee
Golden Gate
Fly Away Home
When Time Ran Out...
Circle of Iron
The Swarm
Telefon
The Enforcer
The Killer Elite
Death Scream
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
The Towering Inferno
Shaft in Africa
A Time For Love
The Poseidon Adventure
The New Centurions