Stirling Silliphant

Total Credits at Criticker: 30 (Writer), 2 (Creator)
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An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town. (imdb)
Charly is a retarded adult male struggling to survive in the world. His frequent attempts at learning, reading, and writing prove worthless. (imdb)
At the opening party of a collosal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it. (imdb)
A huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities by killing thousands of people. (imdb)
A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape, when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea. (imdb)
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. (imdb)
A small town's women give birth to unfriendly alien children posing as humans. (imdb)
Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a struggling trucker who's trying to rebuild his life. At the request of his gravely ill ex-wife, he tries to make amends with his son who he left behind years earlier. Upon their first meeting, his son doesn't think too highly of him until he enters the nation-wide arm wrestling competition in Las Vegas. (imdb)
Mike Locken is one of the principle members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A. 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. (imdb)
After his mother's death, Collin Fenwick goes to live with his father's cousins, the wealthy, avaricious, and controlling Verena Talbo, and her compliant, earthy sister Dolly. When a city slicker comes to town and convinces Verena to market Dolly's locally-famous tonic, Dolly finally gets some backbone, refuses to divulge the formula, and heads for a tree house with Collin and Catherine, the loyal maid... (imdb)
In the small English village of Midwich everybody and everything falls into a deep, mysterious sleep for several hours in the middle of the day. Some months later every woman capable of child-bearing is pregnant and the children that are born out of these pregnancies seem to grow very fast and they all have the same blond hair and strange, penetrating eyes that make people do things they don't want to do. (imdb)
Travis McGee: The Empty Copper Sea (1983) - TV Movie
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. (imdb)
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? (imdb)
Commercial artist James Vanning (Aldo Ray) and his friend, Dr. Edward Gurston (Frank Albertson), are on a hunting and fishing trip in Wyoming when they stop to help two men whose car has crashed. The pair, John (Brian Keith) and Red (Rudy Bond), turn out to be escaped bank robbers, on the run with 350,000 dollars in stolen cash after a clean getaway, and they don't plan on leaving any witnesses... (All Movie Guide)
In the last days of WW2, an Irish sailor who's one of the few survivors of a U-boat attack makes it to a South Seas island, then goes to the ends of the earth with what makeshift weapons he can find to destroy the submarine
Garner plays Philip Marlowe, trying to crack a very complicated case indeed. Screenplay by Stirling Silliphant, based upon the novel "The Little Sister" by Raymond Chandler.
P.I. John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.
The San Francisco police are out, after a seemingly random street robbery resulted in the killing of a cop. Meanwhile, psycho-killers Keith and Wallach have been hired to find the suitcase stolen in the robbery because it contained a massive amount of heroin. However, they also want to find out about 'The Man' who has hired them.
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. (imdb)
A Southern lawyer uncovers the truth about a slain undertaker. (imdb)
The Merediths move to an isolated farm. Mrs. Meredith and the neighbour Will Cade become friends and eventually lovers. (imdb)
Based on a true story, this film tells of a police chief hired to wipe out corruption in the Louisiana State Police. (imdb)
After 14 years in the United States, Greg Dickson returns to the Philippines where he was raised, with the purpose of selling his father's estate and returning to the states. 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. (imdb)
Pearl (1978) - TV Mini-Series
The lives of several personnel and residents at and around the Pearl Harbor naval base are changed forever on December 6, 1941.
Naked City (1958) - TV Series
A crime drama that focused on the lives of the detectives of New York's 65th Precinct. The emphasis in the stories was mostly on real-life crime and the human element. Season one stars were Lt. Dan Muldoon and Det. Jim Halloran; seasons 2-4 stars were Det. Adam Flint and Lt. Mike Parker. (imdb)
Movin' On (1972) - TV Movie
A race car driver and his friend, a motorcycle racer and former POW, join forces to tour the U.S. in search of competition.
- The Crystal Trench (1959) - Season 5
- Graduating Class (1959) - Season 5
Space (1985) - TV Mini-Series
A 13-hour mini-series detailing James A. Michner's fictional account of the American space program from the years after World War II to the Apollo landings on the moon in the early 1970s. (imdb)