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Silliphant was a film and television writer with more than 700 hours of prime-time television drama to his credit, many of which earned Emmys for their producers, directors, and cast members. However, he never received an Emmy personally as writer.
Apr 22, 2011 · Stirling Silliphant had the face of a man who'd compromised too much and too often. He'd scripted famous, trashy fun like The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. He won a 1967 Oscar for...
Apr 27, 1996 · By MYRNA OLIVER. April 27, 1996 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Stirling Silliphant, the prolific compulsive writer who won an Academy Award for his 1967 screenplay “In the Heat of the Night” and...
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 78. In 1988,...
Silliphant proved more successful with black actors, thanks to the growing media attention on the civil rights movement, which found an eloquent screen spokesman in Sidney Poitier's detective ...
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. During World War II he was an army lieutenant, and after his discharge in 1946 he got a job with the ...
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Feb 18, 2014 · That young press agent, Stirling Silliphant, became a screenwriter. Not only did he survive the ups and downs of a Hollywood career, he also had a hand in writing several of the memorable films and television shows that entertained the baby boomer generation.
