Norman Mailer
Acting
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
Acting48
movieHow to Come Alive with Norman Mailer
2023
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Capote Tapes
2021
Self (voice) (archive footage)
movieBest of Enemies
2015
Self (archival)
movieNorman Mailer: The American
2012
Self (archive footage)
movieMarilyn Monroe: Still Life
2006
Self - Writer & Filmmaker
movieThe Education of Gore Vidal
2003
Self (archive footage)
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003
Self (archive footage)
tvGilmore Girls
2000
Norman Mailer
movieMailer on Mailer
2000
Himself
movieCremaster 2
1999
Harry Houdini
movieBaby Trouble Hole
1996
Interviewed
movieKing Lear
1988
Self (uncredited)
movieRagtime
1981
Stanford White
movieTown Bloody Hall
1979
Himself
movieMaidstone
1971
Norman T. Kingsley
tvThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
Self - Guest
movieBeyond the Law
1968
Lt. Francis Xavier Pope
movieWild 90
1968
Prince
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
tvToday
1952
Self
Writing13
movieKing Lear
1988
Writer
movieTough Guys Don't Dance
1987
Writer, Novel
movieThe Executioner's Song
1982
Book, Screenplay
movieMaidstone
1971
Writer
movieBeyond the Law
1968
Writer
Directing5
movieTough Guys Don't Dance
1987
Director
movieMaidstone
1971
Director
movieBeyond the Law
1968
Director
movieWild 90
1968
Director
Production5
movieMaster Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
2002
Executive Producer
tvMaster Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
2002
Executive Producer
movieMaidstone
1971
Producer
movieBeyond the Law
1968
Producer
movieWild 90
1968
Producer