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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 producer has been responsible for some of the most enjoyable films and TV shows of the past four decades--as well as one or two of the most enjoyably awful. The Second World War interrupted Silliphant's career as a Disney publicist. After the war, Silliphant returned to work in the publicity department of 20th Century Fox, but turned to writing and producing in the early 1950s. He started in TV by writing for such series as "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Perry Mason" and "Alcoa/Goodyear Theater" before creating (and writing) the highly-regarded noir detective series "Naked City" (ABC, 1958-59).

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Highest rated movies

100% 76% Nightfall
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95% 92% In the Heat of the Night
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93% 78% Village of the Damned
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86% 83% The Lineup
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80% 76% The Poseidon Adventure Watchlist
71% 74% The Slender Thread
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69% 59% The Enforcer
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68% 72% The Towering Inferno
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64% 52% Shaft in Africa
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60% 62% The New Centurions
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
50% 93% The Grass Harp Screenwriter $511.6K 1995
29% 28% Village of the Damned Writer $8.6M 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Day of Reckoning Screenwriter - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Stranger in the Mirror Writer - 1993
No Score Yet 0% Feel the Heat Writer,
Executive Producer
- 1987
32% 50% Over the Top Screenwriter $14.0M 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Three Kings Writer,
Producer
- 1987
0% 20% When Time Ran Out Screenwriter - 1980
43% 59% Circle of Iron Writer - 1979
9% 19% The Swarm Screenwriter - 1978
44% 47% Telefon Screenwriter - 1977
69% 59% The Enforcer Screenwriter,
Screenwriter
- 1976
60% 33% The Killer Elite Screenwriter - 1975
68% 72% The Towering Inferno Screenwriter - 1974
64% 52% Shaft in Africa Screenwriter - 1973
60% 62% The New Centurions Screenwriter - 1972
80% 76% The Poseidon Adventure Writer - 1972
No Score Yet 62% Murphy's War Screenwriter - 1971
No Score Yet 23% A Walk in the Spring Rain Producer - 1970
No Score Yet 17% The Body Stealers Screenwriter - 1968
95% 92% In the Heat of the Night Screenwriter - 1967
71% 74% The Slender Thread Screenwriter - 1965
93% 78% Village of the Damned Screenwriter - 1960
86% 83% The Lineup Writer - 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet Damn Citizen Screenwriter - 1958
100% 76% Nightfall Screenwriter - 1956
No Score Yet 26% 5 Against the House Producer - 1955
No Score Yet 38% The Joe Louis Story Producer - 1953

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tattletales Guest 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Longstreet Writer 1971-1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Maya Writer 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rawhide Writer 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Route 66 Writer 1960-1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mr. Lucky Writer 1960
No Score Yet 87% Alfred Hitchcock Presents Writer 1956-1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Perry Mason Writer 1957