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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 ...

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  2. Stirling Silliphant. Detroit-born Stirling Silliphant (born Sterling Dale Silliphant) was the son of a Canadian immigrant. The family moved to California when he was about two. He grew up in Glendale and graduated from the University of Southern California in 1938. During World War II he was an army lieutenant, and after his discharge in 1946 ...

    • Writer, Additional Crew, Producer
    • January 16, 1918
    • Stirling Silliphant
    • April 26, 1996
  3. Stirling Silliphant. Writer: In the Heat of the Night. Detroit-born Stirling Silliphant (born Sterling Dale Silliphant) was the son of a Canadian immigrant. The family moved to California when he was about two. He grew up in Glendale and graduated from the University of Southern California in 1938. During World War II he was an army lieutenant, and after his discharge in 1946 he got a job with ...

    • January 16, 1918
    • April 26, 1996
  4. The screenwriter Stirling Silliphant was a master of "the Oscar scene", Hollywood parlance for a scene that allows a star to pour out his heart and show his or her full range - and which ...

  5. Apr 27, 1996 · Stirling Silliphant, the prolific compulsive writer who won an Academy Award for his 1967 screenplay "In the Heat of the Night" and critical praise for his television detective series "Naked City ...

  6. Nov 19, 2018 · Stirling Silliphant's later career would include a well-deserved Academy Award for Best Screenplay for In the Heat of the Night.Still, I think he was at his peak in the early 1960s, writing for Route 66, creating some of the most poetic dialogue ever written for a weekly TV series.

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  8. 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. In 1988 ...

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