Tennessee Williams
Writing
Born 1911-03-26
Died 1983-02-24
Columbus, Mississippi, USA
83 credits
Tony Awards 1
Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2
Florida Artists Hall of Fame 1
star on Playwrights' Sidewalk 1
Awards
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 2 nominated
- 1957 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated Baby Doll
- 1952 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated A Streetcar Named Desire
Tony Awards 1 won · 3 nominated
- 1999 Best Play Nominated
- 1962 Best Play Nominated
- 1956 Best Play Nominated
- 1951 Best Play Won The Rose Tattoo
Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2 won
- 1955 Drama Won Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- 1948 Drama Won A Streetcar Named Desire
Florida Artists Hall of Fame 1 won
- — Florida Artists Hall of Fame Won
star on Playwrights' Sidewalk 1 won
- — star on Playwrights' Sidewalk Won
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play 1 nominated
- 1999 Outstanding Play Nominated
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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. At age 33, after years of obscurity, Williams suddenly became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). With his later work, Williams attempted a new style that did not appeal as widely to audiences. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Much of Williams's most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays, and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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Filmography
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Writing
39 credits
American Playhouse
BBC Play of the Month
Thirty-Minute Theatre
NET Playhouse
CBS Playhouse
Monday's Theater
A Streetcar Named Desire
Suddenly, Last Summer
The Fugitive Kind
A Streetcar Named Desire
Boom!
Baby Doll
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
The Rose Tattoo
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Night of the Iguana
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Orpheus Descending
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
The Glass Menagerie
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
Orpheus Descends to Hell
The Yellow Bird
The Drift
The Glass Menagerie
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Sweet Bird of Youth
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
The Migrants
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Rubber Woman
Sweet Bird of Youth
The Glass Menagerie
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Suddenly, Last Summer
The Glass Menagerie
Acting
32 credits
American Playhouse
The Dick Cavett Show
Midi Première
The Kennedy Center Honors
A Streetcar Named Desire
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Small World
Suddenly, Last Summer
This Property Is Condemned
The Fugitive Kind
The Night of the Iguana
Sweet Bird of Youth
Boom!
Baby Doll
The Rose Tattoo
A Streetcar Named Desire
Senso
O Gesto, a Festa, a Mensagem - Dois Mil Anos de Teatro
Summer and Smoke
The Glass Menagerie
Akale
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
The Yellow Bird
Beautiful Darling
Period of Adjustment
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Glass Menagerie
The Screen Director
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
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