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  1. Stirling Silliphant. Highest Rated: 100% Nightfall (1956) Lowest Rated: 0% When Time Ran Out (1980) Birthday: Jan 16, 1918. Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, USA. This veteran screenwriter and ...

  2. SILLIPHANT, Stirling (Dale) 1918-1996PERSONAL: Born January 16, 1918, in Detroit, MI; died of prostate cancer, April 26, 1996, in Bangkok, Thailand; son of Leigh Lemuel (a sales director) and Ethel May (Noaker) Silliphant; married Tiana du Long (an actress under name Tiana Alexandra), July 4, 1974; children: Stirling, Dayle, Loren (deceased).

  3. Nov 19, 2018 · Stirling Silliphant's later career would include a well-deserved Academy Award for Best Screenplay for In the Heat of the Night. Still, I think he was at his peak in the early 1960s, writing for Route 66, creating some of the most poetic dialogue ever written for a weekly TV series. For a sample scene from Route 66, check out this clip from the ...

  4. Apr 26, 1996 · 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.

  5. Sep 10, 2020 · Stirling Dale Silliphant (16 January 1918 – 26 April 1996) was a prolific American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his Academy-award winning screenplay for In the Heat of the Night. Other acclaimed features as screenwriter include The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure.

  6. Apr 26, 1996 · Stirling Dale Silliphant was an American novelist, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, moved to Glendale, California as a child, graduated from Hoover High School, and educated at the University of Southern California. He is probably best known for his screenplay adaptations of In the Heat of the Night (which earned him ...

  7. Stirling Silliphant died in Bangkok in 1996 at age 78. He moved to Thailand in 1988, leaving behind once and for all "the cesspool that is Hollywood." Before going, he donated his papers to UCLA.