Cast & creator
Norman Mailer
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Gilmore Girls, The Merv Griffin Show
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norman Mailer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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film credits
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1947–2023 · acting roles
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Filmography (79)
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Gilmore Girls
Norman Mailer
2000
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
NDR Talk Show
Self
1979
The South Bank Show
1978
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
maybrit illner
Self
1999
Apostrophes
Self
1975
The Oscars
Self
1953
Today
Self
1952
PBS News Hour
Self
1975
Storyville
1997
The David Susskind Show
Self
1959Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Self
2002
Monitor
1958
Inside Deep Throat
Self
2005
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Writer
2002Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Executive Producer
2002
Ragtime
Stanford White
1981
The Naked and the Dead
Novel
1958
The Executioner's Song
Book
1982The Executioner's Song
Screenplay
1982
The Outsider
Self
2005
When We Were Kings
Self
1996
The Executioner's Song
Writer
1982
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Director
1987Tough Guys Don't Dance
Writer
1987Tough Guys Don't Dance
Novel
1987
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
1968
Marilyn: The Untold Story
Book
1980
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Self
2019
Hello Actors Studio
Self
1988
An American Dream
Novel
1966
Cremaster 2
Harry Houdini
1999
Year of the Woman
Self
1973
Best of Enemies
Self (archival)
2015
365 Day Project
Self
2007
The Education of Gore Vidal
Self (archive footage)
2003
The Capote Tapes
Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Self
1994
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Writer
2002Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Executive Producer
2002
King Lear
Self (uncredited)
1988
Norman Mailer: The American
Self (archive footage)
2012
The 50 Year Argument
Himself
2014
Empire City
Self
1985
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
Self - Writer & Filmmaker
2006
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
2000New York in the Fifties
Self
2001
Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower
Self
2008The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
Self (archive footage)
2003
Mailer on Mailer
Himself
2000
Maidstone
Norman T. Kingsley
1971Maidstone
Writer
1971Maidstone
Director
1971Maidstone
Producer
1971Maidstone
Editor
1971
American Tragedy
Writer
2000
Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
1970L'étrange festival
Himself
2001
Beyond the Law
Lt. Francis Xavier Pope
1968Beyond the Law
Director
1968Beyond the Law
Writer
1968Beyond the Law
Producer
1968Beyond the Law
Editor
1968
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer
Self (archive footage)
2023
Baby Trouble Hole
Interviewed
1996
Chytilová Versus Forman
Self
1981
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?
Self
1968
Town Bloody Hall
Himself
1979Town Bloody Hall
Book
1979
Norman Mailer vs. Fun City
1970
Wild 90
Prince
1968Wild 90
Director
1968Wild 90
Producer
1968Wild 90
Editor
1968Oh My America
Himself
2000
Untitled (Millicent's Dream)
Director
1947Untitled (Millicent's Dream)
Editor
1947