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Norman Mailer (1923–2007)

Writer | Actor | Producer

Controversial, celebrated post-WWII American writer Norman Mailer first gained recognition at age 25 for his scathing anti-war novel, "The Naked and the Dead" (1948). Mailer directed three "underground" features in the late 1960s--during one of which he and actor Rip Torn argued so violently... See full bio »

Born:

Norman Kingsley Mailer
in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA

Died:

(age 84) in New York City, New York, USA
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Filmography

Hide HideWriter (13 titles)
2002 Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (TV movie) (written by)
 
2000 American Tragedy (TV movie) (teleplay)
 
2000 Time of Her Time (story)
 
1987 King Lear (uncredited)
 
1987 Tough Guys Don't Dance (novel / screenplay)
 
1982 The Executioner's Song (TV movie) (book / screenplay)
 
1980 Marilyn: The Untold Story (TV movie) (novel)
 
1979 Town Bloody Hall (documentary) (book "The Prisoner of Sex")
 
1972 Andare e venire (TV movie) (short story - uncredited)
 
1970 Maidstone
 
1968 Beyond the Law
 
1966 An American Dream (novel)
 
1958 The Naked and the Dead (novel)
 
Show ShowActor (8 titles)
1999 Cremaster 2
Harry Houdini
 
1993 The Obit Writer (short)
 
1987 King Lear
The Great Writer (uncredited)
 
1981 Ragtime
Stanford White
 
1970 Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
 
1970 Maidstone
Norman T. Kingsley
 
1968 Wild 90
Prince
 
1968 Beyond the Law
Lt. Francis Xavier Pope
 
Show ShowProducer (4 titles)
2002 Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (TV movie) (executive producer)
 
1970 Maidstone (producer)
 
1968 Wild 90 (producer)
 
1968 Beyond the Law (producer)
 
Show ShowDirector (4 titles)
1987 Tough Guys Don't Dance
 
1970 Maidstone
 
1968 Wild 90
 
1968 Beyond the Law
 
Show ShowEditor (3 titles)
1970 Maidstone
 
1968 Wild 90
 
1968 Beyond the Law
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (1 title)
1987 Tough Guys Don't Dance (lyrics: "You'll Come Back You Always Do")
 
Show ShowThanks (4 titles)
2008 The American Experience (TV series documentary) (special thanks - 1 episode)
– Oswald's Ghost (2008) (special thanks)
 
2007 Bomb It (documentary) (special thanks)
 
2005 Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (documentary) (special thanks)
 
1999 Cremaster 2 (special thanks: permission for use of "The Executioner's Song")
 
Show ShowSelf (48 titles)
2010 Norman Mailer: The American (documentary)
 
2009 Ptown Diaries (documentary)
Norman Mailer
 
2008 Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Charlie Rose (TV series)
Himself / Himself - Guest
– Episode dated 13 November 2007 (2007) … Himself
– Episode dated 5 February 2007 (2007) … Himself - Guest
 
2007 Oswald's Ghost (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Mein Leben (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Norman Mailer (2007) … Himself
 
1994-2006 American Masters (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Marilyn Monroe: Still Life (2006) … Himself
– The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1994) … Himself
 
2005 The Ballad of Greenwich Village (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 HBO First Look (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Cinderella Man (2005) … Himself
 
2005 The Outsider (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (documentary)
Himself (voice)
 
2005 Inside Deep Throat (documentary)
Himself
 
2004 Gilmore Girls (TV series)
Himself
– Norman Mailer, I'm Pregnant! (2004) … Himself
 
2004 Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (documentary)
Himself
 
2004 The World According to Bush (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2003 Norman Mailer in Provincetown (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2003 Berlin Mitte (TV series)
Himself
– Sprachlose Freundschaft - Wie fremd wird uns Amerika? (2003) … Himself
 
2003 Norman Mailer: My Life (TV documentary)
 
2002 Gero von Boehm begegnet... (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Norman Mailer (2002) … Himself
 
2001 L'étrange festival (TV documentary short)
Himself
 
2000 The Final Day (TV mini-series)
Himself
– Marilyn Monroe … Himself
 
2000 Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (documentary)
Himself
 
2000 New York in the 50's (documentary)
Himself
 
1998 Jonathan Dimbleby (TV series)
Himself
– The Jonathan Dimbleby Interview: Norman Mailer (1998) … Himself
 
1996 When We Were Kings (documentary)
Himself - Writer
 
1995 Face to Face (TV series)
Himself
– Norman Mailer (1995) … Himself
 
1994 Good Morning America (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 13 July 1994 (1994) … Himself
 
1994 The Odyssey of John Dos Passos (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1994 Marilyn Monroe: Life After Death (documentary)
Himself
 
1986 Omnibus: The Last Moguls (documentary)
Himself
 
1985 Empire City (documentary)
(Himself)
 
1983 One on One (TV series)
Himself - Guest
– Norman Mailer (1983) … Himself - Guest
 
1982 Norman Mailer: The Sanction to Write (documentary)
Himself
 
1981 James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1980 Apostrophes (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 19 December 1980 (1980) … Himself
 
1979 Town Bloody Hall (documentary)
Himself
 
1977 The 49th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Presenter: Writing Awards
 
1973 The Mike Douglas Show (TV series)
Himself - Author
– Episode dated 29 November 1973 (1973) … Himself - Author
 
1973 Year of the Woman (documentary)
Himself
 
1972 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 26 October 1972 (1972) … Himself
 
1970-1971 The David Frost Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #4.62 (1971) … Himself
– Episode #4.35 (1971) … Himself
– Episode #3.81 (1971) … Himself
– Episode #2.201 (1970) … Himself
 
1969 Walden (documentary)
Himself
 
1969 Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee (documentary)
Himself - in crowd
 
1969 NET Journal (TV series documentary)
Himself
– The Conservative Mr. Buckley (1969) … Himself
 
1968 The Dick Cavett Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #2.55 (1968) … Himself
 
1968 The Skitch Henderson Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #1.15 (1968) … Himself
 
1968 Today (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 27 September 1968 (1968) … Himself
 
1968 Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up? (documentary)
Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (4 titles)
1999-2012 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
2007 Sunday AM (TV series)
 
2003 The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2002 Stone Reader (documentary)
(archive sound)
 

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Novel: "Of a Fire on the Moon" See more »

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3 Biographical Movies  | 5 Print Biographies  | 4 Interviews  | 38 Articles  | 3 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »
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Personal Quote:

You know, a criminal will never forgive you for preventing them from committing the crime that is really in their heart. See more »

Trivia:

Coined the term "factoid", defined as a wholly spurious "fact" invented to create or prolong public exposure or to manipulate public opinion, in his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe. Mailer himself described a factoid as "facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper". See more »

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