# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stirling-silliphant
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:36:13.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stirling-silliphant"
name: "Stirling Silliphant"
slug: "stirling-silliphant"
description: "Stirling Dale Silliphant 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 Allen productions The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure."
tagline: "American screenwriter (1918–1996)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/iJ5AJl2CiNuSsxb94NhjFgvZDAu.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-01-16"
deathDate: "1996-04-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.73
  momentum:             7.460941665923531
  historical:           11.724344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0798103/"
    handle:    "nm0798103"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ستيرلينج سيليفانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stirling Silliphant"
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    title: "استرلینگ سیلیفنت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_Silliphant"
    title: "Stirling Silliphant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_Silliphant"
    title: "Stirling Silliphant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "スターリング・シリファント"
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    title: "Stirling Silliphant"
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    title: "Stirling Silliphant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stirling Silliphant"
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  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_Silliphant"
    title: "Stirling Silliphant"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Stirling Silliphant"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump