Norman Mailer
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 31, 1923
- Died
- November 10, 2007 (aged 84)
- Birthplace
- Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Capote Tapes
Movie · as Self (voice) (archive footage)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Movie · as Self
Best of Enemies
Movie · as Self (archival)
The 50 Year Argument
Movie · as Himself
Norman Mailer: The American
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower
Movie · as Self
365 Day Project
Movie · as Self
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
Movie · as Self - Writer & Filmmaker
The Outsider
Movie · as Self
Inside Deep Throat
Movie · as Self
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Education of Gore Vidal
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Cremaster Cycle
Movie · as Harry Houdini ('Cremaster 2')
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
TV · as Self · 1 ep
New York in the Fifties
Movie · as Self
L'étrange festival
Movie · as Himself
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
Movie
Mailer on Mailer
Movie · as Himself
Oh My America
Movie · as Himself
Gilmore Girls
TV · as Norman Mailer · 1 ep
Cremaster 2
Movie · as Harry Houdini
maybrit illner
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Storyville
TV · 3 eps
When We Were Kings
Movie · as Self
Baby Trouble Hole
Movie · as Interviewed
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Movie · as Self
King Lear
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
Hello Actors Studio
Movie · as Self
Empire City
Movie · as Self
Ragtime
Movie · as Stanford White
Chytilová Versus Forman
Movie · as Self
Town Bloody Hall
Movie · as Himself
NDR Talk Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The South Bank Show
TV · 1 ep
PBS News Hour
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Apostrophes
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Year of the Woman
Movie · as Self
Maidstone
Movie · as Norman T. Kingsley
Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
Movie
Norman Mailer vs. Fun City
Movie
Beyond the Law
Movie · as Lt. Francis Xavier Pope
Wild 90
Movie · as Prince
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?
Movie · as Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Movie · as Self
The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 10 eps
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 3 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The David Susskind Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Monitor
TV · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Today
TV · as Self · 1 ep