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Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Teleplay By Born: January 16, 1918 in Detroit, MI Death: April 26, 1996 Biography:American screenwriter and producer "Stirling Silliphant" is best remembered for his Oscar-winning screenplay for "In the Heat of the Night" (1967), but during his career, he wrote or helped write over 200 scripts for films and even more television scripts. Other notable Silliphant scripts include "Village of the Damned" (1962), The Poseidan Adventure (1972), and "The Towering Inferno" (1974). In 1968, his script for "Charly", the film adaptation for the play Flowers for Algernon, helped win "Cliff Robertson" his Best Actor Oscar. The Detroit native graduated from the University of California and in 1938 became a publicist for Disney and then moved to Twentieth Century Fox to become an assistant for president "Spyros Skouras". Silliphant was in the military during WWII and afterward worked in a New York division of Fox. He did not return to Hollywood until the early '50s, after his first novel,... Full Biography
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