Stirling Silliphant
Stirling Silliphant ( born January 16, 1918 in Detroit, Michigan, † April 26, 1996 in Bangkok, Thailand; actually: Sterling Dale Silliphant ) was an American screenwriter, film producer and film director.
Biography
Origin
Sterling Silliphant was born as the eldest son of Sterling Silliphant, a 1911 immigrant to the U.S. Canadian, and Ethel M. Silliphant in Detroit, but grew from around 1920 with his younger by three years brother Leigh on in Glendale, California, where his father 's livelihood earned as a realtor. At about 1930, the father left the family and moved with Sterling junior to Phoenix (Arizona ); it came to the divorce of their parents. Both father and son changed at the beginning of the 1930s its name and is now called Sterling but no longer Stirling.
Career
1938 graduated Silliphant the University of California, and served 1943-1946 as Lieutenant of the Navy in World War II. After his retirement from active service, he first began to work in the publicity department of the Disney Group, however, changed in the same year to Twentieth Century Fox where he also worked in the PR department from 1946 until 1953.
In 1953 he moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in film. 5 Against the House in 1955 marked his debut as a screenwriter and film producer. Until the early 1970s, he wrote mostly for children's programs such as the Mickey Mouse Club or television series, of which the majority is unknown today. Among his best known television series Perry Mason is one for which he wrote in 1957 two screenplays.
From the early 1970s and already partially before he began writing for feature films, though his work was only partially honored. 1968 Silliphant was In the Heat of the Night with the Oscar for Best Award for his work on Adapted Screenplay. He also won in the same year for the same movie a Golden Globe Award. With another Globe he was released a year later, in 1969, honored for Charly. On The Poseidon Adventure (1972 ) Silliphant was involved as co-author. In 1973, he led the first and only -time director of the movie Romance A Time for Love.
The film marks the turning point in the career of Silliphant, who from that time had less success in the selection of his screenplays. An example of this was the action movie produced in 1987 Over the Top, which was nominated for three Golden Raspberries, among others.
Family and death
In 1974 he married the Thi Thanh Nga vietnamese lady, and got over it contact with Buddhism, to which he also converted faith. The couple had one son and two daughters had, soon after his second home in Bangkok.
Here Stirling Silliphant lost at the age of 78 years his long battle with prostate cancer.