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  1. 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 ...

  2. Apr 27, 1996 · Silliphant is survived by his wife, Vietnamese American actress Tiana Alexandra Du Long, and three children.

  3. Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter: born Detroit 16 January 1918; married 1974 Tiana Alexandra Du Long (four children); died Bangkok 26 April 1996.

  4. Feb 18, 2014 · Caitlin Clark. A lesson in writer’s bio: how to survive Hollywood. By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL. Updated 9:28 AM PDT, February 18, 2014. “Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God” (BearManor Media), by Nat Segaloff. The young press agent asked the famously cynical Oscar-winning actor what he thought was the key to success in Hollywood.

  5. Apr 27, 1996 · Stirling Silliphant, the highly prolific and successful screenwriter who won an Academy Award for writing "In the Heat of the Night" in 1967, died yesterday in Bangkok at the age of 78.

  6. Silliphant married Tiana Du Long in 1974 and they had one child. In the 1980s he moved his family to Thailand, all the while continuing to write mini-series and made-for-TV films. He died of prostate cancer in Bangkok, Thailand, in 1996.

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  8. Silliphant seemed able to bury his own albatrosses, not letting the pressures and concerns of life, career and three marriages interfere with his compulsive creative output.

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