Аватар персоны Stirling Silliphant

Stirling Silliphant

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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. Other features as screenwriter include the Irwin Allen productions The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stirling Silliphant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

15-01-1918

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Capricorn

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Detroit, Michigan, USA

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The Grass Harp

The Grass Harp

Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. Becoming an orphan in 1935, Collin moves to his dad's cousins Verena and Dolly. Verena is a rich, bossy businesswoman. Dolly, Collin and the maid revolt, moving to a tree house.
5.9

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1995

Catch the Heat

Catch the Heat

Gorgeous Checkers Goldberg, a police detective, goes undercover as a stripper in order to stop a ruthless kingpin who has been using unsuspecting starlets in order to smuggle drugs into the United States. With her hot looks, street smarts and martial arts prowess, Goldberg seems to have everything she needs to catch this violent criminal -- and will stop at nothing to get the job done.
4.3

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1987

Fly Away Home

Fly Away Home

Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief. His love interest is a Vietnamese doctor whose brother happens to be a leader in the Viet Cong and whose influential parents are involved in high-level corruption.
4.7

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1981

A Time For Love

A Time For Love

Time for Love features two stories of love. A businessman has a life style change while a rock singer finds it hard to change his way of life and romance.
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1973

The New Healers

The New Healers

The small town hospital staff is trying to gain the confidence of the local farmers and merchants.
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1972

Shaft

Shaft

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
6.4

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1971

A Walk in the Spring Rain

A Walk in the Spring Rain

A sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a down-to-earth Tennessee farmer.
5.8

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1970

5 Against the House

5 Against the House

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
5.9

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1955

The Joe Louis Story

The Joe Louis Story

The life and career of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, who held the title for 12 years--longer than any other boxer in history--and who had to not only battle opponents inside the ring and racism outside it.
5.9

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1953