Stirling Silliphant

Stirling Dale Silliphant (January 16, 1918 – April 26, 1996) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stirling Silliphant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Crew

Shaft
Executive Producer

The Poseidon Adventure
Screenplay

Over the Top
Screenplay

Marlowe
Screenplay

In the Heat of the Night
Screenplay

The Enforcer
Screenplay

The Towering Inferno
Screenplay

Telefon
Screenplay

The Killer Elite
Screenplay

The Lineup
Writer

Circle of Iron
Screenplay, Story

Village of the Damned
Screenplay

Fly Away Home
Writer, Producer

Nightfall
Writer

Charly
Screenplay

The Grass Harp
Screenplay, Co-Producer

5 Against the House
Screenplay, Producer

The Swarm
Screenplay

When Time Ran Out...
Screenplay

The Slender Thread
Writer

The Three Kings
Writer

A Walk in the Spring Rain
Screenplay, Producer

The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Screenplay

A Stranger in the Mirror
Teleplay

Damn Citizen
Writer

The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
Writer

The New Healers
Writer, Creator, Producer

Salween
Writer

Longstreet
Writer

Death Scream
Writer

The New Centurions
Screenplay

Day of Reckoning
Writer

Catch the Heat
Writer, Executive Producer

The General And Me
Writer

Movin' On
Original Series Creator

Huk!
Novel, Screenplay

Murphy's War
Screenplay

Maracaibo
Screenplay

Shaft in Africa
Writer, Producer

The Silent Kill
Writer

A Time For Love
Producer, Writer, Director

Golden Gate
Writer

Wings of Fire
Writer

Travis McGee
Teleplay

The Joe Louis Story
Producer

Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing
Writer