Stirling Silliphant
Writing · Executive Producer · Screenplay · Writer
Born Jan 15, 1918 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Active 1953–1996 · Awards: Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Edgar Awards
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…
Filmography
Over the Top (1987) — ScreenplayWhen Time Ran Out... (1980) — ScreenplaySalem's Lot (1979) — Executive ProducerThe Swarm (1978) — ScreenplayCircle of Iron (1978) — Screenplay · StoryTelefon (1977) — ScreenplayThe Enforcer (1976) — ScreenplayThe Killer Elite (1975) — ScreenplayThe Towering Inferno (1974) — ScreenplayShaft in Africa (1973) — Writer · ProducerThe Poseidon Adventure (1972) — ScreenplayThe New Centurions (1972) — ScreenplayThe New Healers (1972) — Creator · Writer · ProducerShaft (1971) — Executive ProducerMurphy's War (1971) — ScreenplayMarlowe (1969) — ScreenplayCharly (1968) — ScreenplayIn the Heat of the Night (1967) — ScreenplayThe Slender Thread (1965) — WriterVillage of the Damned (1960) — ScreenplayThe Lineup (1958) — WriterPerry Mason (1957) — WriterNightfall (1956) — WriterAlfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) — Writer · Teleplay