Trivia

Studied martial arts with Bruce Lee during the late 1960s.

A bet with Harold P. Warren led to the creation of the infamously bad movie Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966).

Won back-to-back Golden Globes in the Best Screenplay category for his In the Heat of the Night (1967) and Charly (1968) scripts.

Wrote a meticulous treatment for Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged," which was never developed into a screenplay or produced.

Advertising executive for Disney and Twentieth Century Fox before turning to screenwriting in the 1950s. Prolific writer who also published more than 50 books.

Career monograph "Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God" by Nat Segaloff in "Backstory 3," CA: University of California Press, 1997 (complete version is in the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences)

Father of Loren Edward Silliphant (B. June 18, 1950 D. February 12, 1969) and daughter Dayle Silliphant (B. September 24, 1947) with his second wife Edna Marie Patella. Loren died from a gunshot wound after Chester Allen Johnson, aged 21, arrived at his door in Hollywood, California. Police believed Johnson was looking for marijuana. Loren had four guests at his apartment at the time of the shooting. Dayle became an interior designer.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors." New Revision Series, Vol. 130, pp. 369-374. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

Father of Stirling Silliphant Rasmussen (B. August 8, 1940) with his first wife Iris Garff (B. October 3, 1914 D. December 31, 2005).

Brother of Allan Silliphant.

Brother of Robert Silliphant.