Stirling Silliphant

Stirling Silliphant

出生 : 1918-01-15, Detroit, Michigan, USA

死亡 : 1996-04-26

略歴

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

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The General And Me
Writer
Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s independence wars, a number of times. She was the first American who entered the home of the “Red Napoleon”. The fruit of this friendship is a film, personal and politically involved at the same time. Travelling across the country and talking to important figures as well as ordinary people, the director finds out more about her roots and offers the audience a unique perspective on Vietnam’s present and past.
The Grass Harp
Co-Producer
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.
The Grass Harp
Screenplay
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.
Day of Reckoning
Writer
Action-adventure following a onetime Special Forces Captain in Vietnam turned tour guide in remote parts of Asia, who, while on a trek with two researchers in the Burmese jungle, meets up with a wartime enemy intent on settling an old score.
A Stranger in the Mirror
Writer
Based on Sidney Sheldons novel.
Gunman II
Writer
The border of Burma and Thailand is lawless place, where people live and die by the law of the gun. Into this situation comes a young police lieutenant, intent on reforming the rough and rowdy local police force along the Salween River. But the ongoing fight by the Karen tribe against the Burmese government spills over into the Thailand, making the lieutenant's task a difficult one.
The Three Kings
Writer
The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Los Angeles-area mental institution. Dressed as the Three Wise Men for a Christmas pageant, the trio is suddenly struck with the delusion that they are really their Biblical counterparts on a quest to find the Baby Jesus. As TV cameras grind away, the three ersatz Kings surreptitiously ride out of the gates of the asylum—on camels—and into the mean streets of LA. As the story draws to its conclusion, the three escapees find themselves providing a Christmas miracle (but not in the form of rap) for a group of homeless people on the outskirts of the city.
Catch the Heat
Writer
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.
オーバー・ザ・トップ
Screenplay
妻子を捨てトラック運転手として生きる男が、病気の妻に会うため10年ぶりに再会した息子と旅に出る。二人の間にできた溝は深く、息子は頑なになっている。男は、得意のアーム・レスリングを通して親子の絆の再生を試みるのだが……。
Travis McGee
Teleplay
Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, resulting in a death that might have been faked.
Golden Gate
Writer
A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted, but ailing, patriarch's son and a ruthless businessman who tries for a takeover.
Fly Away Home
Producer
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.
Fly Away Home
Writer
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.
When Time Ran Out...
Screenplay
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
Circle of Iron
Story
In a mystical desert kingdom, young martial arts fighter Cord loses a contest to determine who will journey to take the powerful Book of All Knowedge from Zetan, an evil wizard. Despite his lack of a sponsor, Cord's rule-breaking nature leads him to try retrieving the book anyway. Help is offered by a mysterious blind man who gives advice as Cord fights his way through multiple opponents, discovering more about himself as he gets closer to Zetan.
Circle of Iron
Screenplay
In a mystical desert kingdom, young martial arts fighter Cord loses a contest to determine who will journey to take the powerful Book of All Knowedge from Zetan, an evil wizard. Despite his lack of a sponsor, Cord's rule-breaking nature leads him to try retrieving the book anyway. Help is offered by a mysterious blind man who gives advice as Cord fights his way through multiple opponents, discovering more about himself as he gets closer to Zetan.
The Swarm
Screenplay
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.
Telefon
Screenplay
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
ダーティハリー3
Screenplay
峠のコンビニの駐車場で若い女がガス会社のトラックをヒッチハイクした。山中の一軒家へ送ってもらった女は、冷えたビールをご馳走すると相棒をつれて家に入る。相棒が戻ってくるのを一服しながら待つ運転手であったが、突如背後からやってきたヒッピー風の男に刺殺される。そして男はビールを抱えて出てきた相棒も散弾銃で射殺した・・・ ダーティハリーことサンフランシスコ市警のハリー・キャラハン刑事は、相棒と巡回中に強盗事件の報が入り現場へ急行。犯人の要求を聞くも、突如車で店に突入し.44マグナムをぶっぱなして事件を解決、結果1万ドルを越す損害を出した。この事件で上司の逆鱗にふれたハリーは人事課へと移動を命ぜられる。翌日刑事昇任試験の面接官を担当したハリーは、そこでケイト・ムーアという頼り無さそうな女性警官と出会う。そんな中、元相棒がガス会社のトラックを奪った連中が計画した武器強奪に遭遇し銃撃戦の負傷がもとで殉職してしまう。殺人課へ戻されたハリーは、市を脅迫する武器強奪犯の捜査を開始するのだが、新しい相棒はなんとあのケイト・ムーアであった。
キラー・エリート
Screenplay
裏切りが横行する殺し屋たちの非情な世界を、サム・ペキンパー監督がスローモーションを駆使した得意のバイオレンス・アクションを交えて描写。敵対する暗殺集団としてニンジャ軍団が登場し、怪しくも味わい深い。
Death Scream
Writer
Loosely based on the true story of the killing of Kitty Genovese: A young woman's murder is witnessed by fifteen of her neighbors who do nothing to help and refuse to cooperate with the police.
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
Writer
A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.
タワーリング・インフェルノ
Screenplay
地上135階、シスコにそびえ立つ超高層ビル“グラス・タワー”落成式の日。規格外の製品を使ったために起きた出火はやがて巨大な炎となり、最上階に何百人も閉じ込めたままビルを飲み込む。
黒いジャガー/アフリカ作戦
Author
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
ポセイドン・アドベンチャー
Screenplay
NYからギリシャのアテネに向かっていた豪華客船ポセイドン号が、海底地震による大津波に飲まれて転覆。その惨状とともに生き残った船客の脱出劇を描いた、ロナルド・ニーム監督による傑作パニック巨編。
The New Centurions
Screenplay
An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.
Movin' On
Original Series Creator
A race car driver and his friend, a motorcycle racer and former POW, join forces to tour the U.S. in search of competition.
黒いジャガー
Executive Producer
ニューヨーク警官も一目置く、腕利き黒人私立探偵シャフト。ある日、彼は黒人街ハーレムのボス、バンピーから、愛娘マーシーの救出を依頼される。誘拐したのはシャフトの旧友ベンだという。ベンは黒人解放過激グループのボスになっていたのだ。現在のベンを知らないシャフトは、疑心暗鬼のまま操作を開始。ようやくベンの組織の集会所を探し出した時、突然の機関銃掃射を受ける!ベンとともに逃げ延びたシャフト…。彼の執拗な捜査によって、事件は意外な結末へと動き始める。
Longstreet
Writer
The pilot for the 1971 - 1972 series of the same title. Mike Longstreet, an insurance investigator in New Orleans loses his sight and his wife in an explosion and is determined to track down his wife's killers.
Murphy's War
Screenplay
Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He is rescued, and ends up at a forgotten mission station near the mouth of the Orinoco, and begins to plot his vengeance. He wishes to sink the U-Boat by means of any method imaginable to him, and sets about to make the courageous attempt, assisted by Louis, the administrator of the local oil company.
A Walk in the Spring Rain
Producer
A sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a down-to-earth Tennessee farmer.
A Walk in the Spring Rain
Screenplay
A sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a down-to-earth Tennessee farmer.
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Screenplay
Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand against racism, he is greeted with a hostile bunch of Southern bigots and other various stereotypes.
Marlowe
Screenplay
Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are murdered with ice picks, exotic dancers, blackmailed television stars and self-preserving gangsters. Soon, Marlowe's life is on the line right along with his case.
まごころを君に /アルジャーノンに花束を
Screenplay
知的障害を患う青年チャーリーは、脳手術によって一般人を上回る知能を身につけた。そして実験用のネズミ、アルジャーノンと仲よしになる。だがある日チャーリーは、彼と同様の手術を施されたアルジャーノンの死を目撃してしまう。恐怖に駆られたチャーリーは、手術前の状態に戻ることを希望するが……。原作はダニエル・キイスの小説『アルジャーノンに花束を』。
夜の大捜査線
Screenplay
南部で発生した殺人事件の容疑者として、駅で列車を待っていた黒人青年ヴァージルの身柄が拘束された。しかし警察の取り調べによって、ヴァージルは殺人課の刑事であることが判明する。警察署長のビルは、ヴァージルに反感を覚えながらも、協力して捜査を進めていくが……。
Wings of Fire
Writer
A headstrong aviatrix enters and international air race to save her father's foundering business and to soothe the heart of an old flame who returned home with a new wife in tow.
The Slender Thread
Writer
Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a load of pills, and he secretly tries to get help. During this time, he learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die. Can Alan get the cavalry to save her in time before it's too late?
未知空間の恐怖/光る眼
Screenplay
原作はジョン・ウィンダムの『呪われた村』。ある村で、村人たちが一斉に仮死状態になるという事件が起きた。巻き込まれた若い女性は皆、妊娠してしまう。やがて生まれた子供たちは、異常に発育が早く、一様に超能力を持っていた……。異星人による地球侵略をテーマにしたSFホラー。
The Lineup
Writer
In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.
Damn Citizen
Writer
Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg (Keith Andes) to lead the state police against corruption.
Nightfall
Writer
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
Huk!
Screenplay
After 14 years in the United States, Greg Dickson returns to his family's plantation in the Philippines to settle his slain father's estate. Boyhood friend Bart Rogers and his wife Cindy meet Greg's plane at Manila, but he dismisses their warnings about the marauding Huks, fanatic guerrillas who are plundering nearby plantations. They repulse a Huk attack on the way to the plantation and are met by Stephen Rogers, Bart's father and the village schoolteacher. With him is Philippine Army Major Balatbat who tells Greg that Kalak, leader of the Huks and murderer of Greg's father, is also after him.
Huk!
Novel
After 14 years in the United States, Greg Dickson returns to his family's plantation in the Philippines to settle his slain father's estate. Boyhood friend Bart Rogers and his wife Cindy meet Greg's plane at Manila, but he dismisses their warnings about the marauding Huks, fanatic guerrillas who are plundering nearby plantations. They repulse a Huk attack on the way to the plantation and are met by Stephen Rogers, Bart's father and the village schoolteacher. With him is Philippine Army Major Balatbat who tells Greg that Kalak, leader of the Huks and murderer of Greg's father, is also after him.
5 Against the House
Producer
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
5 Against the House
Screenplay
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.