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Norman Mailer
Actor, Writer, Director, Producer, Editor, Additional Credits
Born January 31, 1923Died November 10, 2007 (84 years)
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.
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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.
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Filmography
| 2023 | How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | Where's My Roy Cohn? · as Self |
| 2019 | The Capote Tapes · as Self (voice) (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists · as Self - Novelist And Journalist |
| 2018 | |
| 2018 | Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes · as Self |
| 2015 | Best of Enemies · as Self - Author |
| 2014 | The 50 Year Argument · as Himself |
| 2014 | Regarding Susan Sontag · as Self |
| 2013 | |
| 2010 | Norman Mailer: The American · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2007 | Oswald's Ghost · as Self |
| 2006 | Marilyn Monroe: Still Life · as Self - Writer & Filmmaker |
| 2005 | The Outsider · as Self |
| 2005 | The Ballad of Greenwich Village · as Self |
| 2005 | Inside Deep Throat · as Self |
| 2005 | Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story · as Self |
| 2004 | |
| 2004 | The World According to Bush · as Self |
| 2000 | New York in the 50's · as Self |
| 2000 | Gilmore Girls (TV Series) · as Norman Mailer |
| 1999 | Berlin Mitte (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1999 | The Source · as Self |
| 1996 | When We Were Kings · as Self |
| 1992 | HBO First Look (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1987 | NPA (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1985 | Empire City · as Self |
| 1982 | Wogan (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1979 | Town Bloody Hall · as Himself |
| 1979 | NDR Talk Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1977 | The 49th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1975 | PBS News Hour (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Apostrophes (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1969 | Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee · as Self - In Crowd |
| 1969 | The Fall · as Self |
| 1968 | Diaries Notes and Sketches · as Self |
| 1968 | 60 Minutes (TV Series) · as Self - Author (segment "the Secret Life Of Robert Hanssen") |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1967 | Omnibus (1967) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1966 | Firing Line (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self - Author |
| 1958 | Monitor (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1957 | The Mike Wallace Interview (TV Series) · as Self - Writer |
| 1954 | Camera Three (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1953 | The Academy Awards (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Self |