Stirling Silliphant

Stirling Silliphant
Born
Stirling Dale Silliphant

January 16, 1918
DiedApril 26, 1996(1996-04-26) (aged 78)
Alma materUniversity of Southern California (B.A., 1938)
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, producer
Known forNaked City and In the Heat of the Night
Spouse
(m. 1974)
Children3

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. Other features as screenwriter include the Irwin Allen productions The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure.

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