Stirling Silliphant
Stirling Dale Silliphant 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.
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🎬 Movies
The Grass Harp
writer
1996
Salween
writer
1993
Over the Top
writer
1987
Fly Away Home
writer
1981
When Time Ran Out...
writer
1980
Circle of Iron
writer
1978
The Swarm
writer
1978
Telefon
writer
1977
The Enforcer
writer
1976
The Killer Elite
writer
1975
Death Scream
writer
1975
The Towering Inferno
writer
1974
Shaft in Africa
writer
1973
The Poseidon Adventure
writer
1972
The New Centurions
writer
1972
Longstreet
writer
1971
Murphy's War
writer
1971
A Walk in the Spring Rain
writer
1970
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
writer
1970
Marlowe
writer
1969
Charly
writer
1968
In the Heat of the Night
writer
1967
Wings of Fire
writer
1967
The Slender Thread
writer
1965
Village of the Damned
writer
1960
The Silent Kill
writer
1959
The Lineup
writer
1958
Damn Citizen
writer
1958
Nightfall
writer
1956
5 Against the House
writer
1955
