Norman Mailer
Acting
Born 1923-01-31
Died 2007-11-10
Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
58 credits
Legion of Honour 1
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1
star on Playwrights' Sidewalk 1
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1
Awards
Won 1 Legion of Honour Award
Legion of Honour 1 won
- — Legion of Honour Won
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1 won
- — Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Won
star on Playwrights' Sidewalk 1 won
- — star on Playwrights' Sidewalk Won
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1 won
- — Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres Won
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Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning over six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II—more than any other post-war American writer.
His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him early renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. His best-known work is widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Mailer is considered an innovator of "creative non-fiction" or "New Journalism", along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, a genre which uses the style and devices of literary fiction in factual journalism. He was a cultural commentator and critic, expressing his views through his novels, journalism, frequent press appearances and essays, the most famous and reprinted of which is "The White Negro". In 1955, he and three others founded The Village Voice, an arts and politics-oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village.
In 1960, Mailer was convicted of assault and served a three-year probation after he stabbed his wife Adele Morales with a penknife, nearly killing her. In 1969, he ran an unsuccessful campaign to become the mayor of New York. Mailer was married six times and had nine children.
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Filmography
Acting
47 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Gilmore Girls
The Merv Griffin Show
The Dick Cavett Show
NDR Talk Show
Apostrophes
The Oscars
maybrit illner
Today
PBS News Hour
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Inside Deep Throat
The David Susskind Show
Ragtime
L'étrange festival
Best of Enemies
King Lear
When We Were Kings
The Executioner's Song
The Outsider
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Cremaster 2
365 Day Project
Empire City
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Marilyn: The Untold Story
Maidstone
Hello Actors Studio
The Education of Gore Vidal
Beyond the Law
The Capote Tapes
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Baby Trouble Hole
Year of the Woman
The 50 Year Argument
Chytilová Versus Forman
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
New York in the Fifties
Wild 90
Town Bloody Hall
Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer: The American
Mailer on Mailer
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?
Oh My America
Writing
11 credits
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
King Lear
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
The Executioner's Song
The Executioner's Song
Tough Guys Don't Dance
An American Dream
The Naked and the Dead
Maidstone
American Tragedy
Beyond the Law
Other credits
7 credits
Maidstone
Beyond the Law
Wild 90
Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
Norman Mailer vs. Fun City
Untitled (Millicent's Dream)
Directing
5 credits
Producing
5 credits
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Maidstone
Beyond the Law
Wild 90
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