Stirling Silliphant

The General And Me

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s independence wars, a number of times. She was the first American who entered the home of the “Red Napoleon”. The fruit of this friendship is a film, personal and politically involved at the same time. Travelling across the country and talking to important figures as well as ordinary people, the director finds out more about her roots and offers the audience a unique perspective on Vietnam’s present and past.

Release Date: 2017-05-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Grass Harp

Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. Becoming an orphan in 1935, Collin moves to his dad's cousins Verena and Dolly. Verena is a rich, bossy businesswoman. Dolly, Collin and the maid revolt, moving to a tree house.

Release Date: 1995-09-10

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 30

Day of Reckoning

Action-adventure following a onetime Special Forces Captain in Vietnam turned tour guide in remote parts of Asia, who, while on a trek with two researchers in the Burmese jungle, meets up with a wartime enemy intent on settling an old score.

Release Date: 1994-03-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

A Stranger in the Mirror

A naive young woman arrives in Hollywood to become a star, but after she gets drugged and raped during a shoot, she hardens quickly and catches the eye of a popular womanizing comedian who introduces her to his shady powerful agent.

Release Date: 1993-10-24

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Vote Count: 3

Brotherhood of the Rose

Romulus and Remus were picked up at an orphanage at a young age, raised together as brothers and trained to supersede every other CIA agents.

Release Date: 1989-01-22

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 13

Gunman II

The border of Burma and Thailand is lawless place, where people live and die by the law of the gun. Into this situation comes a young police lieutenant, intent on reforming the rough and rowdy local police force along the Salween River. But the ongoing fight by the Karen tribe against the Burmese government spills over into the Thailand, making the lieutenant's task a difficult one.

Release Date: 1988-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

The Three Kings

The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Los Angeles-area mental institution. Dressed as the Three Wise Men for a Christmas pageant, the trio is suddenly struck with the delusion that they are really their Biblical counterparts on a quest to find the Baby Jesus. As TV cameras grind away, the three ersatz Kings surreptitiously ride out of the gates of the asylum—on camels—and into the mean streets of LA. As the story draws to its conclusion, the three escapees find themselves providing a Christmas miracle (but not in the form of rap) for a group of homeless people on the outskirts of the city.

Release Date: 1987-12-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 5

Catch the Heat

Gorgeous Checkers Goldberg, a police detective, goes undercover as a stripper in order to stop a ruthless kingpin who has been using unsuspecting starlets in order to smuggle drugs into the United States. With her hot looks, street smarts and martial arts prowess, Goldberg seems to have everything she needs to catch this violent criminal -- and will stop at nothing to get the job done.

Release Date: 1987-10-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 10

Over the Top

Sylvester Stallone stars as hard-luck big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk and takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the first-place prize money, and the love of the son he abandoned years earlier into the keeping of his rich, ruthless father-in-law.

Release Date: 1987-02-13

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1714

Mussolini: The Untold Story

The rise and fall of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Recounting his life with his wife, children and mistress, this biography (based on the recollections of Mussolini's eldest son, Vittorio) chronicles Il Duce's tyranny as he plunges Italy into the dark days of World War II.

Release Date: 1985-11-24

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 6

Space

Space is a television mini-series. It is based on a novel of the same name by James A. Michener published in 1982.

Release Date: 1985-04-14

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 2

Travis McGee

Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, resulting in a death that might have been faked.

Release Date: 1983-05-18

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Vote Count: 2

Golden Gate

A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted, but ailing, patriarch's son and a ruthless businessman who tries for a takeover.

Release Date: 1981-09-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Fly Away Home

Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief. His love interest is a Vietnamese doctor whose brother happens to be a leader in the Viet Cong and whose influential parents are involved in high-level corruption.

Release Date: 1981-09-18

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 3

When Time Ran Out...

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

Release Date: 1980-03-28

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 68

Salem's Lot

Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.

Release Date: 1979-11-17

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 482

Pearl

Miniseries about the events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Release Date: 1978-11-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 5

Circle of Iron

In a mystical desert kingdom, young martial arts fighter Cord loses a contest to determine who will journey to take the powerful Book of All Knowedge from Zetan, an evil wizard. Despite his lack of a sponsor, Cord's rule-breaking nature leads him to try retrieving the book anyway. Help is offered by a mysterious blind man who gives advice as Cord fights his way through multiple opponents, discovering more about himself as he gets closer to Zetan.

Release Date: 1978-07-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 57

The Swarm

Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.

Release Date: 1978-07-14

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 175

Telefon

Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.

Release Date: 1977-12-16

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 118

The Enforcer

Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.

Release Date: 1976-12-16

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 904

The Killer Elite

Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.

Release Date: 1975-12-19

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 120

Death Scream

Loosely based on the true story of the killing of Kitty Genovese: A young woman's murder is witnessed by fifteen of her neighbors who do nothing to help and refuse to cooperate with the police.

Release Date: 1975-09-26

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 6

The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant

A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.

Release Date: 1975-05-13

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Towering Inferno

At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Release Date: 1974-12-14

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 955

Shaft in Africa

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

Release Date: 1973-06-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 65

A Time For Love

Time for Love features two stories of love. A businessman has a life style change while a rock singer finds it hard to change his way of life and romance.

Release Date: 1973-03-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Poseidon Adventure

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

Release Date: 1972-12-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 912

The New Centurions

An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.

Release Date: 1972-08-03

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 70

Movin' On

A race car driver and his friend, a motorcycle racer and former POW, join forces to tour the U.S. in search of competition.

Release Date: 1972-07-24

Department: Writing

Job: Original Series Creator

The New Healers

The small town hospital staff is trying to gain the confidence of the local farmers and merchants.

Release Date: 1972-03-27

Department: Crew

Job: Creator

Longstreet

Longstreet is an American crime drama series that was broadcast on the ABC in the 1971-1972 season. A 90-minute pilot movie of the same name aired prior to the debut of the series as an ABC Movie of the Week.

Release Date: 1971-09-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 10

Shaft

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Release Date: 1971-06-25

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 372

Longstreet

The pilot for the 1971 - 1972 series of the same title. Mike Longstreet, an insurance investigator in New Orleans loses his sight and his wife in an explosion and is determined to track down his wife's killers.

Release Date: 1971-02-23

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 3

Murphy's War

Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He is rescued, and ends up at a forgotten mission station near the mouth of the Orinoco, and begins to plot his vengeance. He wishes to sink the U-Boat by means of any method imaginable to him, and sets about to make the courageous attempt, assisted by Louis, the administrator of the local oil company.

Release Date: 1971-01-27

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 80

A Walk in the Spring Rain

A sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a down-to-earth Tennessee farmer.

Release Date: 1970-06-17

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 13

The Liberation of L.B. Jones

A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's colleagues are seeking to avoid publicity.

Release Date: 1970-03-18

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 22

Marlowe

Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are murdered with ice picks, exotic dancers, blackmailed television stars and self-preserving gangsters. Soon, Marlowe's life is on the line right along with his case.

Release Date: 1969-09-19

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 78

Charly

An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to him was right.

Release Date: 1968-09-23

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 107

In the Heat of the Night

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

Release Date: 1967-08-02

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1122

Wings of Fire

A headstrong aviatrix enters an international air race to save her father's foundering business and to soothe the heart of an old flame who returned home with a new wife in tow.

Release Date: 1967-02-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Slender Thread

Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a load of pills, and he secretly tries to get help. During this time, he learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die. Can Alan get the cavalry to save her in time before it's too late?

Release Date: 1965-12-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 49

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.

Release Date: 1963-10-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

Route 66

Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays on CBS from October 7, 1960 to March 20, 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the first two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod was shown traveling on his own. Tod met Lincoln Case, played by Glenn Corbett, late in the third season, and traveled with him until the end of the fourth and final season. Among the series more notable aspects were the featured Corvette convertible, and the program's instrumental theme song, which became a major pop hit.

Release Date: 1960-10-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 72

Vote Count: 16

Village of the Damned

In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.

Release Date: 1960-06-16

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 447

Mr. Lucky

Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from October 24, 1959, to June 18, 1960, with repeats until September 3. Blake Edwards developed the program as a retooling of his Willie Dante character from Four Star Playhouse, where the role was played by studio boss Dick Powell. In the 1960–1961 season, Howard Duff assumed the role of Willie Dante in the NBC adventure/drama series Dante. Mr. Edwards directed and co-wrote the first episode of Mr. Lucky, and the credits of the first eighteen episodes included "Entire production supervised by Blake Edwards." Jack Arnold produced the show and directed fifteen of the thirty-four episodes. Henry Mancini's smooth theme music for the show reached Number 21 in the US singles charts. He released two successful LP's based on the show, Mr. Lucky and Mr. Lucky Goes Latin.

Release Date: 1959-10-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 5

The Man from Blackhawk

The Man From Blackhawk is a Western television series starring Robert Rockwell that aired on the ABC television network from October 9, 1959, until September 9, 1960. The series was created by Academy Award winning screenwriter Stirling Silliphant.

Release Date: 1959-10-09

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 2

The Silent Kill

Retired football player and current P. I. Brock Callahan (Ken Clark) is hired to investigate the death of a decorator. The police think it's a suicide, but Callahan's not so sure. Directed by Don Siegel from a script by Stirling Silliphant as the pilot for a CBS television show called "Brock Callahan" which was not picked up.

Release Date: 1959-08-11

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Naked City

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.

Release Date: 1958-09-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 11

The Lineup

In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.

Release Date: 1958-06-11

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 86

Maracaibo

A firefighter is sent to Venezuela to battle a blazing oil well but still finds time for romance.

Release Date: 1958-05-21

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2

Damn Citizen

Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg (Keith Andes) to lead the state police against corruption.

Release Date: 1958-03-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Alcoa Theatre

Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16, 1960. The program also aired under the title Turn of Fate, with the stories depicting the difficulties faced by individuals who are suddenly thrust into unexpected and perilous dangers. Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theatre. In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer. Each appeared in dramatic and light comedic roles through the first season.

Release Date: 1957-09-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 5

Suspicion

Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of Suspicion was film director Alfred Hitchcock.

Release Date: 1957-09-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 8

Perry Mason

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Release Date: 1957-09-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 125

M Squad

Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption in America's Second City, Chicago.

Release Date: 1957-09-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

Nightfall

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

Release Date: 1956-11-09

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 98

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.

Release Date: 1956-10-05

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 8

Huk!

After 14 years in the United States, Greg Dickson returns to his family's plantation in the Philippines to settle his slain father's estate. Boyhood friend Bart Rogers and his wife Cindy meet Greg's plane at Manila, but he dismisses their warnings about the marauding Huks, fanatic guerrillas who are plundering nearby plantations. They repulse a Huk attack on the way to the plantation and are met by Stephen Rogers, Bart's father and the village schoolteacher. With him is Philippine Army Major Balatbat who tells Greg that Kalak, leader of the Huks and murderer of Greg's father, is also after him.

Release Date: 1956-08-08

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 5

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

Release Date: 1955-10-02

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 9

Vote Count: 229

5 Against the House

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

Release Date: 1955-06-10

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 39

The Joe Louis Story

The life and career of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, who held the title for 12 years--longer than any other boxer in history--and who had to not only battle opponents inside the ring and racism outside it.

Release Date: 1953-09-18

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 7