Gore Vidal

Birthplace: West Point, New York
Birthday: October 3, 1925

One of the grand old liberal belletrists, this essayist and novelist also has a knack for writing best sellers and scripts, including ones for such film classics as "Ben-Hur" (1959), "Suddenly, Last Summer" (1959), and the decidedly less-than-classic "Is Paris Burning?" (1966). His 1968 fictional spoof of Hollywood "Myra Breckinridge" became a notorious 1970 film. Equally adept as a writer of popular historical biographies, campy melodramas and urbane political commentary (a proclivity that led to endless brouhahas with his "bete noir" Norman …more

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Credits

Actor

Gore Vidal s Gore Vidal
Urban Heartlands: Gore Vidal s Washington, D.C.
Garbo
Interviewee
Dick Cavett With Gore Vidal
America at Risk: All the President s Women

Writer

Gore Vidal s Lincoln
Novel as Source Material ( Lincoln )
Gore Vidal s Lincoln
Novel as Source Material ("Lincoln")
Gore Vidal s Billy the Kid
Screenplay
Dress Gray
Screenplay

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Career Milestones

1992
Played major supporting role in "Bob Roberts"
1990
Co-wrote the screenplay for "The Palermo Connection"
1989
Scripted the TNT miniseries "Gore Vidal's 'Billy the Kid'"; also had small role as a minister
1986
Wrote the NBC miniseries "Dress Gray"
1979
Did uncredited work on the script for "Caligula"