Stirling Silliphant
Writing · Born Jan 15, 1918 · Died Apr 26, 1996 (78) · 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
Known for
Over the Top
19876.5
In the Heat of the Night
19677.7
The Towering Inferno
19747.0
The Poseidon Adventure
19727.2
The Enforcer
19766.7
Salem's Lot
19796.8
Village of the Damned
19607.2
Shaft
19716.4
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
19557.8
The Swarm
19785.0
The Killer Elite
19755.8
Perry Mason
19577.7
Telefon
19776.6
Charly
19686.5
Nightfall
19566.9
Murphy's War
19716.1
The Lineup
19587.1
Marlowe
19696.2
Shaft in Africa
19736.2
When Time Ran Out...
19805.3
