Norman Mailer
Known for Acting · 46 credits
- Born
- 1923-01-31
- Died
- 2007-11-10
- Place of birth
- 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.
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Known For
TV Shows (12)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Gilmore Girls
2000
as Norman Mailer
NDR Talk Show
1979
as Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Apostrophes
1975
as Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
maybrit illner
1999
as Self
Today
1952
as Self
PBS News Hour
1975
as Self
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
as Self
The David Susskind Show
1959
as Self
Movies (34)
Inside Deep Throat
2005
as Self
Ragtime
1981
as Stanford White
When We Were Kings
1996
as Self
Maidstone
1971
as Norman T. Kingsley
Best of Enemies
2015
as Self (archival)
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
as Self
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
as Self
The Outsider
2005
as Self
Hello Actors Studio
1988
as Self
The Capote Tapes
2021
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
365 Day Project
2007
as Self
King Lear
1988
as Self (uncredited)
Cremaster 2
1999
as Harry Houdini
The 50 Year Argument
2014
as Himself
Wild 90
1968
as Prince
Beyond the Law
1968
as Lt. Francis Xavier Pope
Year of the Woman
1973
as Self
New York in the Fifties
2001
as Self
Norman Mailer: The American
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
2006
as Self - Writer & Filmmaker
Mailer on Mailer
2000
as Himself
Empire City
1985
as Self
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
1970
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
2000
Norman Mailer vs. Fun City
1970
Town Bloody Hall
1979
as Himself
Baby Trouble Hole
1996
as Interviewed
Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower
2008
as Self
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?
1968
as Self
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer
2023
as Self (archive footage)
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003
as Self (archive footage)
L'étrange festival
2001
as Himself
Oh My America
2000
as Himself
About Norman Mailer
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-k… With 46 credits spanning from 1952 to 2023, Norman Mailer has appeared in 34 films and 12 TV shows.
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- Inside Deep Throat (2005) — as Self
- Ragtime (1981) — as Stanford White
- When We Were Kings (1996) — as Self
- Maidstone (1971) — as Norman T. Kingsley
- Best of Enemies (2015) — as Self (archival)
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