Film
In total he wrote or co-wrote 47 feature films, including Village of the Damned, the Charles Bronson spy thriller Telefon, The Liberation of L.B. Jones, The Killer Elite, the Dirty Harry film The Enforcer and Over the Top (the latter with its star Sylvester Stallone).
In addition to the Academy Award, In the Heat of the Night also earned Silliphant an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.
Silliphant also helped to pull film concepts together. He penned the screenplay for Shaft in Africa, the third film in the Shaft series. With Chatrichalerm Yukol, he co-wrote the screenplay to the 1994 Thai action film, Salween. His last screenplay was for the 1995 film, The Grass Harp.
Although Silliphant worked constantly in Hollywood, he had a well-known aversion against living in Southern California, where he had grown up. After he became successful and famous, he built a house for himself and his family in Tiburon, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He commuted regularly by air to Los Angeles.
He died in Bangkok, Thailand in 1996.
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