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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.
Stirling Silliphant. Writer: In the Heat of the Night. Detroit-born Stirling Silliphant (born Sterling Dale Silliphant) was the son of a Canadian immigrant. The family moved to California when he was about two. He grew up in Glendale and graduated from the University of Southern California in 1938.
The screenwriter Stirling Silliphant was a master of "the Oscar scene", Hollywood parlance for a scene that allows a star to pour out his heart and show his or her full range - and...
Stirling Silliphant. Writer: In the Heat of the Night. Detroit-born Stirling Silliphant (born Sterling Dale Silliphant) was the son of a Canadian immigrant. The family moved to California when he was about two. He grew up in Glendale and graduated from the University of Southern California in 1938.
Apr 27, 1996 · Stirling Silliphant, the highly prolific and successful screenwriter who won an Academy Award for writing "In the Heat of the Night" in 1967, died yesterday in Bangkok at the age of...
Apr 27, 1996 · Stirling Silliphant, the prolific compulsive writer who won an Academy Award for his 1967 screenplay "In the Heat of the Night" and critical praise for his television...
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...
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.
Feb 18, 2014 · “Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God” is that rare book about the movies and television that focuses on a person who writes the scripts. Author Nat Segaloff fills the pages of Silliphant’s biography with entertaining recollections from the natural-born storyteller.
American screenwriter Stirling Silliphant, who won an Oscar for the 1967 movie "In the Heat of the Night," died today of cancer, friends said. He was 78. Silliphant, whose screenplays included...
