Cast & creator
Tennessee Williams
Best known for The Dick Cavett Show, American Playhouse, American Playhouse
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. From Wikipedia.
88
film credits
11
television credits
12
1950–2027 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (99)
Showing 99 of 99 credits
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
American Playhouse
Theatre Play
1982American Playhouse
Writer
1982
Midi Première
Self
1975
BBC Play of the Month
Writer
1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Writer
1965
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978
NET Playhouse
Writer
1966
Monday's Theater
Writer
1972CBS Playhouse
Writer
1966
A Streetcar Named Desire
Theatre Play
1951A Streetcar Named Desire
Screenplay
1951Small World
Self
1958
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Theatre Play
1958
Suddenly, Last Summer
Theatre Play
1959Suddenly, Last Summer
Screenplay
1959
This Property Is Condemned
Theatre Play
1966
The Night of the Iguana
Theatre Play
1964
Sweet Bird of Youth
Theatre Play
1962
Baby Doll
Screenplay
1956Baby Doll
Theatre Play
1956
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Novel
2003
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Writer
2008
A Streetcar Named Desire
Writer
1995A Streetcar Named Desire
Theatre Play
1995
The Fugitive Kind
Screenplay
1960The Fugitive Kind
Theatre Play
1960
The Rose Tattoo
Man at Mardi Gras Club (uncredited)
1955The Rose Tattoo
Screenplay
1955The Rose Tattoo
Theatre Play
1955
A Streetcar Named Desire
Novel
1987
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Novel
1961
Senso
Dialogue
1954
Boom!
Theatre Play
1968Boom!
Screenplay
1968
National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Writer
2018
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Self (archive footage)
1994
National Theatre at Home: Suddenly Last Summer
Writer
2027
Sweet Bird of Youth
Writer
1989
Orpheus Descending
Writer
1990
The Drift
Novel
1989
Period of Adjustment
Theatre Play
1962
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
Theatre Play
2014National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
Writer
2014
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Writer
1976
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Self - Playwright (archive footage)
2021
The Glass Menagerie
Writer
1987
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Writer
197627 Wagons Full of Cotton
Writer
1990
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
Theatre Play
1970
Summer and Smoke
Theatre Play
1961
A Streetcar Named Desire
Theatre Play
1984O Gesto, a Festa, a Mensagem - Dois Mil Anos de Teatro
Theatre Play
1976
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Theatre Play
1984Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Writer
1984
The Yellow Bird
Narrator (voice)
2002The Yellow Bird
Writer
2002
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
Writer
1958
The Glass Menagerie
Theatre Play
1973
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Writer
1966
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Original Story
1989
The Glass Menagerie
Writer
2021
The Glass Menagerie
Screenplay
1950The Glass Menagerie
Theatre Play
1950
Tennessee Williams' South
1973The Glass Menagerie
Novel
1969
Bourbon Street Blues
Writer
1979
Sweet Bird of Youth
Author
1978
A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere
Writer
1998
The Migrants
Story
1974
Beautiful Darling
Self (archive footage)
2010
The Screen Director
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1951
Orpheus Descends to Hell
Writer
1986
Rubber Woman
Author
1991
Le Paradis sur terre
Writer
2011Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Theatre Play
A Streetcar Named Desire
Writer
1989
Talk to Me Like the Rain
Writer
1976Een vreemde liefde
Theatre Play
1990Begegnung mit Tennessee Williams
Self - Interviewee
1972
Dragon Country
Theatre Play
1970Orpheus steigt herab
Writer
1965
The Night of the Iguana
Author
1991
Noir et blanc
Original Story
1986
Here Without Me
Theatre Play
2011
Suddenly, Last Summer
Author
1993Suddenly, Last Summer
Writer
1993Hilsen fra Bertha
Writer
1968
Akale
Theatre Play
2004
Cat on Fire
Original Story
1977Cat on Fire
Theatre Play
1977Camino Real
Story
The Piper
Novel
1985
The Glass Menagerie
Writer
1966
Desire
Idea
2002
Suddenly, Last Summer
Writer
2007
Alfarysa
Writer
1986
A Streetcar Named Desire
Writer
2025
Lady Vaselina
Theatre Play
1990