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Stirling Silliphant
Highest Rated: 100% Nightfall (1956)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
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).
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50% | 93% | The Grass Harp | Screenwriter | $511.6K | 1995 |
| 30% | 27% | Village of the Damned | Writer | $8.6M | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Day of Reckoning | Screenwriter | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Feel the Heat |
Writer, Executive Producer |
- | 1987 |
| 32% | 49% | Over the Top | Screenwriter | $14.0M | 1987 |
| 0% | 21% | When Time Ran Out | Screenwriter | - | 1980 |
| 38% | 59% | Circle of Iron | Writer | - | 1979 |
| 9% | 19% | The Swarm | Screenwriter | - | 1978 |
| 44% | 48% | Telefon | Screenwriter | - | 1977 |
| 69% | 59% | The Enforcer | Screenwriter | - | 1976 |
| 60% | 33% | The Killer Elite | Screenwriter | - | 1975 |
| 68% | 72% | The Towering Inferno | Screenwriter | - | 1974 |
| 64% | 52% | Shaft in Africa | Screenwriter | - | 1973 |
| 60% | 63% | 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 |
| 96% | 92% | In the Heat of the Night | Screenwriter | - | 1967 |
| 71% | 74% | The Slender Thread | Screenwriter | - | 1965 |
| 93% | 78% | Village of the Damned | Screenwriter | - | 1960 |
| 88% | 83% | The Lineup | Writer | - | 1958 |
| 100% | 75% | 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 | 85% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Writer | 1956-1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Writer | 1957 |