Today’s morning name — a rather poetic one, but his real name: Stirling Silliphant.
From Wikipedia:
(#1) A p.r. shot of Silliphant in mid-careerStirling 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 and Route 66. Other features as screenwriter include the Irwin Allen productions The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure.
.. Silliphant was a film and television writer with more than 700 hours of prime-time television drama to his credit
(#2) A poster for the film (which was later made into a tv series)
On the film, from Wikipedia:
In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison. It is based on John Ball’s 1965 novel of the same name and tells the story of Virgil Tibbs, a black police detective from Philadelphia, who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a small town in Mississippi. It stars Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, and was produced by Walter Mirisch. The screenplay was by Stirling Silliphant.
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