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Stirling Dale Silliphant (January 16, 1918 – April 26, 1996) was an American screenwriter and producer. His father, Sterling Silliphant, was a Canadian who immigrated to the United States in 1911, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1916. His mother was Ethel M. Silliphant. He had one brother, Leigh, who was three years younger. Born in Detroit, Michigan, his family moved to Glendale, California when he was a child. He graduated from Hoover High School, and was educated at the University of Southern California. He may be best known for his screenplay for ''In the Heat of the Night'', for which he won an Academy Award in 1967, and co-creating the television series ''Route 66''. Other features as screenwriter include the Irwin Allen productions ''The Towering Inferno'' and ''The Poseidon Adventure'', adapting both films from previously published novels. In the case of ''The Towering Inferno'', he was tasked with blending two separate novels, The Tower, by Richard Martin Stern, and The Glass Inferno, by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson, into a single screenplay. He was a close friend of Bruce Lee, under whom he studied martial arts. Lee was featured in the Silliphant-penned detective movie ''Marlowe'' and four episodes of the series ''Longstreet''. Silliphant reportedly recommended Lee for action choreography work. They had been working on a philosophical martial arts script, ''The Silent Flute'' (later known as ''Circle of Iron''), which was to star Lee and James Coburn, and the pre-production even went to the extent of all three going to India on a location hunt. ==Output== Silliphant was a film and television writer with more than 700 hours of prime-time television drama to his credit, many of which earned Emmys for their producers, directors, and cast members. However, he never received an Emmy personally as writer. ''Time'' in 1967 referred to him in a feature article with the statement: "The moving finger...having written, moved on!" Production manager Sam Manners called him from the road unit of ''Route 66'' from El Paso, Texas. He told Stirling they could save perhaps a hundred thousand dollars if Stirling could write an extra story for the show that could be shot in El Paso while all the production trucks and crew were there. Silliphant obliged and had the script ready to shoot in a couple of days. The guest star was Albert Dekker, who was flown in to do the part over the weekend. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stirling Silliphant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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