Screenwriter stirling silliphant biography

American screenwriter (1918–1996)

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.

Stirling Dale Silliphant was an American screenwriter and producer.

Detroit-born Stirling Silliphant (born Sterling Dale Silliphant) was the son of a Canadian immigrant.

Stirling Dale Silliphant (January 16, – April 26, ) was an American screenwriter and producer.

Advertising executive for Disney and Twentieth Century Fox before turning to screenwriting in the s.

Academy-Award winning Screenwriter Stirling Silliphant was born in Detroit on January 16, and grew up in Glendale, CA. After graduating from the.

Early life, family and education

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Stirling Silliphant was the son of Lemuel L. Silliphant, a Canadian who immigrated to the United States in 1911, becoming a US citizen in 1916.

His mother was Ethel M. Silliphant. He had one brother, Leigh, who was three years younger.^[2] The family moved to Glendale, California when the brothers were young.

He was graduated from Hoover High School and the University of Southern California.^[1][3][4]

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