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 ... Read Full Biography
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The Enforcer
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The New Centurions
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The Towering Inferno
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Circle of Iron
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Five Against the House
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Feel the Heat
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The Liberation of L.B. Jones
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The Grass Harp
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The Poseidon Adventure
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Day of Reckoning
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The Lineup
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Over the Top
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Mussolini: The Untold Story
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Travis McGee
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Fly Away Home
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Golden Gate
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When Time Ran Out
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Salem's Lot
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Pearl
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The Swarm
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Telefon
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Death Scream
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The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
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The Killer Elite
| Year | Award | Category | Movie | Result |
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| 1974 | Hollywood Foreign Press Association | Best Screenplay | The Towering Inferno | Nominated |
| 1968 | Hollywood Foreign Press Association | Best Screenplay | Charley | Won |
| 1967 | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Best Adapted Screenplay | In the Heat of the Night | Won |
| 1967 | Edgar Allan Poe Awards | Best Screenplay | In the Heat of the Night | Won |
| 1967 | Hollywood Foreign Press Association | Best Screenplay | In the Heat of the Night | Won |
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