What is Gore Vidal doing now? Net Worth, Family, Death, Sister

Known for movies

Short Info

Net Worth	$12 million
Date Of Birth	October 3, 1925
Died	July 31, 2012, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States
Fact	Is uncredited as a screenwriter on Ben-Hur (1959), although producer Sam Zimbalist had promised Vidal and Christopher Fry, who worked on the script independently from Vidal, screen credit. Karl Tunberg, who wrote the original screenplay before many rewrites by Vidal and Fry produced the final shooting script, claimed the credit. Zimbalist died before the movie ended, and thus could not testify at the Writers Guild arbitration hearing. Tunberg won the credit, but failed to win the Oscar. The film had been nominated for 12 Oscars, and won a record 11, a record that has since been tied. The movie's sole loss was for best writing-screenplay based on material from another medium. The loss is usually attributed to the fallout over the credit dispute, which Vidal made widely known.

Gore Vidal was an American writer known for his novels, plays, essays and his public persona. He was born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. on October 3, 1925 in West Point, New York, to Eugene Luther Vidal Sr. and Nina Gore. His father was an aviation instructor at the United States Military Academy and his mother was a socialite and actress. He had two older sisters, Nina and Gore, and a younger brother, Thomas. His parents divorced when he was ten years old and he was raised by his mother in Washington, D.C. He attended the St. Albans School for boys before going to Phillips Exeter Academy for his senior year of high school. He then enrolled at the United States Military Academy, but was kicked out after a year for having sex with another cadet. He finished his education at the University of Denver and then moved to New York City to pursue a career in writing.

He published his first novel, Williwaw, in 1946 at the age of 20. He then served in the Army during World War II and worked as a journalist in the Philippines. After the war, he moved to Hollywood and wrote scripts for films such as “The Caine Mutiny” (1954) and “Ben-Hur” (1959). He also wrote a number of successful novels, including “The City and the Pillar” (1948), “Myra Breckinridge” (1968) and “Burr” (1973).

In the 1960s, Vidal became known for his outspoken political views and his clashes with other writers, such as Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley Jr. He ran for office twice, unsuccessfully, as a Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from New York and for the U.S. Senate from California.

Vidal continued to write novels, plays and essays until his death on July 31, 2012 at the age of 86. His final novel, “The Golden Age”, was published posthumously in October 2012.

At the time of his death, Vidal was estimated to have a net worth of $20 million.

General Info

Full Name	Gore Vidal
Net Worth	$12 million
Date Of Birth	October 3, 1925
Died	July 31, 2012, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States
Profession	Journalist, Screenwriter, Politician, Author, Novelist, Playwright, Actor, Essayist
Education	Phillips Exeter Academy, Sidwell Friends School
Nationality	American, Mexican

Family

Children	Juan Domingo Beckmann
Parents	Eugene Luther Vidal, Nina S. Gore
Siblings	Nina Auchincloss Straight, Vance Vidal, Valerie Vidal, Thomas Gore Auchincloss

Accomplishments

Awards	National Book Award for Nonfiction, Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay, National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Ambassador Book Award for American Arts and Letters
Nominations	Tony Award for Best Play, National Book Award for Fiction, Nebula Award for Best Novel, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography, L...
Movies	Caligula, Suddenly, Last Summer, Gattaca, Ben-Hur, Bob Roberts, The Catered Affair, The Best Man, The Scapegoat, With Honors, Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula, Is Paris Burning?, Shrink, Why We Fight, One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern, The Left Handed Gu...

Social profile links

IMDB	http://imdb.com/name/nm0000683

Quotes

#	Quote
1	I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consulting adults.
2	What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world. Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long, especially in America.
3	When you get to a certain age, a juicy lawsuit is sometimes the only thing that gets you up in the morning.
4	[observation, 1973] The bad movies we made twenty years ago are now regarded in altogether too many circles as important aspects of what the new illiterates want to believe is the only significant art form of the twentieth century. An entire generation has been brought up to admire the product of that era. Like so many dinosaur droppings, the old Hollywood films have petrified into something rich, strange, numinous-golden. For any survivor of the Writers' Table, it is astonishing to find young directors like Bertolucci, Bogdanovich, Truffaut reverently repeating or echoing or paying homage to the sort of kitsch we created first time round..
5	[ on his role at a christening] Always a godfather, never a god.
6	[on Ronald Reagan] A triumph of the embalmer's art.
7	[on William F. Buckley] Looks and sounds not unlike Hitler, but without the charm.
8	It's easy to sustain a relationship when sex plays no part and impossible, I have observed, when it does.
9	Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
10	(On Anita Bryant) As to Anita's fear that she'll be assassinated? The only people who might shoot Anita Bryant are music lovers.
11	(When asked by interviewer David Frost if his first sexual experience was heterosexual or homosexual) I was too polite to ask.
12	[on writer Carson McCullers] Of all our Southern writers, Carson McCullers is the one most likely to endure.
13	Those presidential ninnies should stick to throwing out baseballs and leave the important matters to serious people.
14	[on Truman Capote] Capote should be heard, not read.
15	[commenting on the giant Jerusalem set for Ben-Hur (1959)] This Jerusalem is the Jerusalem of Jesus Christ. He could move through the city and feel that He was absolutely at home. He would know where to go to order a pizza.
16	The George W. Bush people have virtually got rid of Magna Carta and habeas corpus. In a normal republic I would probably have raised an army and overthrown them. It will take a hundred years to put it all back.
17	[on Hillary Clinton's 2008 Democratic Party nomination campaign] I think her strategy is more or less insane. I'd always rather liked her. She's a perfectly able lawyer . . . But this long campaign, this daily search for the grail, has driven her crazy.
18	[on Barack Obama's 2008 Democratic Party nomination campaign] I liked the idea of him, but he never managed to get my interest. I was brought around by his overall intelligence - specifically when he did his speech on race and religion. He's our best demagogue since Huey Long or Martin Luther King.
19	I never believed in John F. Kennedy's charisma. He was one of our worst presidents. Robert F. Kennedy was a phony, a little Torquemada and their father [Joseph P. Kennedy] was a crook--should have been in jail.
20	But John F. Kennedy had great charm. So has Barack Obama. He's better educated than Jack. And he's been a working senator. Jack never went to the office - he wanted the presidency and his father bought it for him.
21	[on John McCain's 2008 Republican presidential campaign] Anyone could beat McCain! I've never met anyone in America who has the slightest respect for him. He went to a private school and came bottom of his class. He smashed up his aeroplane and became a prisoner of war, which he is trying to parlay into "war hero". He's a goddamned fool. He was on television talking about mortgages, and it was quite clear he does not know what a mortgage is. His head rattles as he walks.
22	Shit has its own integrity.
23	Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
24	The best thing about being Anglophone is that you have two countries.
25	[on post-WW2 America, from 1945-1950] For the first time, the US was not involved in a war. The Depression was over. Suddenly, there were 13 million of us who'd served in the military and were home. There was a cultural burst that Americans had never known before: we became number one for things like ballet. We had dozens of first-rate poets, several not so bad novelists, wonderful music, Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland. It was a great moment, and it lasted for five years. Then the Korean War came, and we've never stopped being at war since.
26	[on working in Hollywood in the 1950s] We did too much. Someone would ring up and say, "We've got a bar, a bedroom and a kind of ballroom. We've got Paul Newman and Vincent J. Donehue is going to direct. Can you think of a play?" In three or four days you'd write something to fit the sets and the cast.
27	My father was asked, "How do you explain Gore's courage?" "Courage about what?" replied my father. "It's not courageous if you don't care what people think of you." He had my number. Of course, one does care, but which kind of people is the question.
28	William Faulkner told me not to fall into the trap F. Scott Fitzgerald did. He thought you could make something out of a movie. You can't. Go, get the money, go home, write your books.
29	My grandmother would say, "If it's in the newspapers, it's just not true." That was our automatic take.
30	[on his 53-year relationship with Howard Austen] It is very easy to sustain a relationship when sex plays no part, and impossible when it does.
31	I remember Grandfather, Senator T. P. Gore, always said, "This whole country is based on only one thing: due process of law, involving Habeas Corpus." The only good thing England gave us was Magna Carta, which he regarded as sacred.
32	[on America during the George W. Bush years] Never have so many things gone so wrong all at once. Saboteurs and thieves have been in charge of every part of government.
33	The protocols for impeachment are meant to be used. Of course Dick Cheney should be impeached, and then I would impeach the president. They are guilty of high crimes against the Constitution of the United States. We have a bad government, just out of control. We have turned into a very ugly, totalitarian society.
34	[on leaving La Rondinaia, Italy, for Hollywood when his partner Howard Austen had required specialist treatment] It was an intelligent thing to live in California, [but now] as the American dictatorship gets going, I don't know if it's the right setting to say farewell to the Republic.
35	There are no homosexual people, only homosexual acts.
36	The only time I went on stage, in the part of Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted writer on Broadway, was right after Howard [Austen, his companion of 53 years] died. Before I knew it, I was standing out there in front of the audience. It was the best thing I ever did. If you want to drown your grief, play on Broadway.
37	[an interview in 2007] I do a lot of reading of the dead. I finally got around after 50 years to reading all of Aristotlex. He's very good on republics, how they always come a cropper, and why. Required reading. Republics, once lost, don't easily come back.
38	[upon learning of Truman Capote's death] Good career move.
39	It's realism. Life is mostly luck!
40	I don't go to movies for love, do you?
41	Look, homophobia is fed into every child in the United States at birth. It is unrelenting, it never lets up. They asked a whole raft of high school boys across the country a couple years ago, one of those polls about what they would most like to be in life, and what they would hate to be, and so forth, and what they would most hate to be was homosexual. There wasn't anyone, not one, who just skipped the question. They all said 'oh no, that's the worst thing you could be.'
42	There is not one human problem that could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
43	To write a script today means working for a committee of people who know nothing about movies, as opposed, say, to real estate or the higher art of bookkeeping.
44	[interview on Swedish radio, 2004] We pay large taxes to the government. The rich don't but the average working person does. We're the only First-World country that gets nothing back. There's no health service. The educational system is pre-Copernicus. It's a scandal. But the Americans don't know it because they have never been told about other countries. They just know they're bad.
45	Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
46	[regarding the US being an empire] It is a pointless empire, which gives a satirist like me great pleasure, the fact that nothing makes any sense.
47	I find stupidity very exciting. And I'm excited all day long.
48	[5/23/04] One day the Bush family may develop a conscience and they may develop some idea of statesmanship. But that day is nowhere near, that the Bush family will ever be anything but dishonorable. And so, we can't wait, but we've got to discuss how they have dishonored us and what they have done wrong, and replace them - with anything, at the moment.
49	Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.
50	[in 1988] I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
51	I'm a born-again atheist.
52	The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.
53	[interview in "The Secular Humanist Bulletin", Summer 1995] Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.
54	Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. [William Shakespeare] has perhaps twenty players, and Tennessee Williams has about five, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of that one. I have ten or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
55	A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
56	[asked to describe himself in one word] Realist.
57	In the next few years, the empire is going to strike back at the Internet in the interest of protecting our children from porn, drugs and terrorism - all of which the U.S. government will claim is being peddled by the Internet. There is not a trick they won't pull to get control. After all, what better way to control everyone's mind, or at least the input of information?
58	A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
59	It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Facts

#	Fact
1	Had four Goddaughters Elinor Newman born April 8th 1959 Melissa Newman born September 27th 1961 Claire Newman born April 21st 1965 Eva Amurri born March 15th 1985.
2	Gore's paternal grandfather, Felix Luther Vidal, was born in Wisconsin, to an Austrian immigrant father, Eugen Fidel Vidal, of Romansh heritage, and a Swiss immigrant mother, Emma de Traxler Hartmann, of Swiss-German descent. Gore's other ancestry was German, Scottish, English, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), and Irish.
3	A 1995 BBC documentary on him, Omnibus: Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal Part 1 (1995), features The Night of the Generals (1967) among a montage of posters for films he is known to have contributed to as a writer, although, as with Ben-Hur (1959), he is not credited.
4	When asked what his favorite film was, he would usually facetiously name an obscure Lana Turner film from 1944, "Marriage Is A Private Affair", which was also a favorite of his fictitious character Myra Breckinridge. The reason for this was that Vidal knew that Tennessee Williams, a friend of his, had, as an unknown and impoverished writer, contributed some additional dialogue to the film without credit. Williams was always embarrassed whenever anyone mentioned the film.
5	He met his long-term partner Howard Austen in 1950. They were together until Austen's death in November 2003.
6	In 1936, as a 10-year-old, he appeared in a Pathé Newsreel landing his father's light aircraft.
7	Lived in Hollywood Hills, California.
8	In the early 1970s, a Washington, D.C. television station named the host of their weekly horror movie slot Gore Dival.
9	When asked why he was running for governor of California against incumbent governor Jerry Brown, he replied that "the chance to compete against a Zen space cadet is too good to pass up.".
10	Gore is his mother's maiden surname.
11	Uncle of Eric Vidal.
12	In 1976, he accepted the Oscar for best writing-original screenplay on behalf of Frank Pierson, who wasn't present at the Academy Awards ceremony.
13	Had diabetes.
14	Was nominated for Broadway's 1960 Tony Award as author of Best Play for "The Best Man".
15	Was upset with the choice of Jerry Lewis as the lead in the movie version of Visit to a Small Planet (1960).
16	Was briefly engaged to Joanne Woodward, who broke the engagement to pledge herself to eventual husband Paul Newman. The new couple, who remained friends with Vidal, briefly lived with him in a house in Los Angeles.
17	Is uncredited as a screenwriter on Ben-Hur (1959), although producer Sam Zimbalist had promised Vidal and Christopher Fry, who worked on the script independently from Vidal, screen credit. Karl Tunberg, who wrote the original screenplay before many rewrites by Vidal and Fry produced the final shooting script, claimed the credit. Zimbalist died before the movie ended, and thus could not testify at the Writers Guild arbitration hearing. Tunberg won the credit, but failed to win the Oscar. The film had been nominated for 12 Oscars, and won a record 11, a record that has since been tied. The movie's sole loss was for best writing-screenplay based on material from another medium. The loss is usually attributed to the fallout over the credit dispute, which Vidal made widely known.
18	Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 132, pp. 395-409. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
19	Uncle of Burr Steers, who is related on his mother's side to Thomas Jefferson's infamous vice president Aaron Burr, the subject of Vidal's best-selling novel "Burr" in 1973.
20	Won a National Book Award (1993) for his non-fiction collection "United States: Essays, 1952-1992".
21	Shared a stepfather with the late Jacqueline Kennedy when her mother Janet Norton lee married his former stepfather, Hugh D. Auchinclos.
22	He has been cited as a relative of Tennessee senator and Vice President Al Gore ("Gore" was Gore Vidal's mother's maiden name). However, Gore Vidal and Al Gore share no common "Gore" ancestors going back to at least the early 1700s.
23	His father helped start three different airlines.
24	Founded U.S. Peace Party with Benjamin Spock.
25	Grandfather Thomas Pryor Gore helped create the state of Oklahoma and was first senator elected to represent the state.
26	Born at 10:00am-EST
27	Wrote under the pseudonyms or Edgar Box, Katherine Everard and Cameron Kay.
28	Unsold script: Wrote the script for a TV movie, "The Magical Monarch of Mo", based on the novel by L. Frank Baum, which was to star Groucho Marx in the title role. [1960]

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Movies

Writer

Title	Year	Status
Needlework Pictures Presents Francesco Vezzoli in Gore Vidal's 'Caligula'	2005	Short
Dimenticare Palermo	1990	screenplay
Billy the Kid	1989	TV Movie written by
Lincoln	1988	TV Mini-Series novel - 2 episodes
The Sicilian	1987	uncredited
Dress Gray	1986	TV Mini-Series teleplay - 2 episodes
Caligula	1979	original screenplay
Recht in eigen hand	1973	TV Movie
Besuch auf einem kleinen Planeten	1971	TV Movie play "Visit to a Small Planet"
Myra Breckinridge	1970	novel
The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots	1970	screenplay
Poseta maloj planeti	1967	TV Movie
Paris brûle-t-il?	1966	screenplay
Theatre 625	1966	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Doctor and the Devil	1965
The Best Man	1964	play "The Best Man" - uncredited / screenplay
Gevoel voor recht	1962	TV Movie
The Chevy Mystery Show	1960	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Startime	1960	TV Series adaptation - 1 episode
Visit to a Small Planet	1960	play
Suddenly, Last Summer	1959	screenplay
Sunday Showcase	1959	TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Ben-Hur	1959	contributing writer - uncredited
The Scapegoat	1959	adaptation
Dark Possession	1959	TV Movie
TV Teatro	1958	TV Series 1 episode
ITV Television Playhouse	1958	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Armchair Theatre	1958	TV Series novel - 1 episode
The Left Handed Gun	1958	play
I Accuse!	1958	screenplay
Matinee Theatre		TV Series 1 episode, 1956 writer - 1 episode, 1956
Playwrights '56	1956	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Catered Affair	1956	screenplay
General Electric Theater	1956	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Texaco Star Theatre		TV Series writer - 1 episode, 1955 written by - 1 episode, 1955
Climax!	1955	TV Series adaptation - 2 episodes
The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse	1955	TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Goodyear Playhouse	1955	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Studio One in Hollywood		TV Series written especially for Studio One by - 2 episodes, 1954 - 1955 adaptation - 1 episode, 1954
The Best of Broadway	1955	TV Series adaptation - 1 episode
Danger	1955	TV Series adaptation - 1 episode
Omnibus		TV Series writer - 1 episode, 1955 adaptation - 1 episode, 1954
Suspense	1954	TV Series teleplay - 2 episodes
The Telltale Clue	1954	TV Series written by
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse	1954	TV Series written by - 1 episode

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Shrink	2009		George Charles
Family Guy	2006	TV Series	Gore Vidal
Jack & Bobby	2005	TV Series	Documentary Host
Igby Goes Down	2002		First School Headmaster (uncredited)
Gattaca	1997		Director Josef
Shadow Conspiracy	1997		Congressman Page
With Honors	1994		Pitkannan
Bob Roberts	1992		Senator Brickley Paiste
Billy the Kid	1989	TV Movie	Preacher (uncredited)
Roma	1972		Gore Vidal
The Best Man	1964		Delegate (uncredited)
Suddenly, Last Summer	1959		Audience Member at Operation (uncredited)
Sunday Showcase	1959	TV Series	Narrator
Ritual in Transfigured Time	1946	Short	Man (uncredited)

Thanks

Title	Year	Status
Salat Kaligula	2015	Short in memory of
On the Road	2012	thanks
Valentino: The Last Emperor	2008	Documentary thanks: bacione gigantesco
Inside Deep Throat	2005	Documentary thanks
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	2004	special thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age	2017	Documentary post-production	Himself
2plus2makes4	2011	Documentary filming	Himself
Salinger	2013	Documentary	Himself
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia	2013	Documentary	Himself
Smiling Through the Apocalypse	2013	Documentary	Himself
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door is Always Open	2012	Documentary	Himself
Valentino's Ghost	2012	Documentary	Himself
The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell	2011	Documentary	Himself
Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton	2010	Documentary	Himself - Author
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood	2010	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself - Author / Himself
Norman Mailer: The American	2010	Documentary
Standing Army	2010	Documentary	Himself
Charlie Rose	1995-2009	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Real Time with Bill Maher	2004-2009	TV Series	Himself
Imagine	2009	TV Series documentary	Himself - Writer
Dangerous Dynasty: The Bush Legacy	2009	Video documentary short	Himself
US Election Night	2008	TV Special	Himself
Beyond Nixon	2008	Video documentary short	Himself
Murder, Spies & Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story	2008	Documentary	Himself - Social Critic
Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11	2008	Documentary	Himself
Democracy Now!	2003-2008	TV Series	Himself
Sunday AM	2008	TV Series	Himself - Writer
Channel 4 News	2008	TV Series	Himself
Do Not Alter?	2008	Video documentary short	Himself - Narrator (voice)
History of the National Security State	2008	Video documentary	Himself
TCM Guest Programmer	2007	TV Series	Himself - Special Guest
Obscene	2007	Documentary	Himself
Texas Monthly Talks	2007	TV Series	Himself - Interviewee
Tavis Smiley	2006	TV Series	Himself
The Simpsons	2006	TV Series	Himself
The U.S. vs. John Lennon	2006	Documentary	Himself
Global Haywire	2006	Documentary	Himself
Dusty Wright's Culture CatchCulture Catch	2005	TV Series	Himself
The Peace! DVD	2005	Video documentary	Himself
L'isola di Calvino	2005	TV Movie documentary	Himself
One Bright Shining Moment	2005	Documentary	Himself
Garbo	2005	Documentary	Himself - Interviewee
Needlework Pictures Presents Francesco Vezzoli in Gore Vidal's 'Caligula'	2005	Short	Himself
Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She	2005	TV Movie documentary	Narrator (voice)
USA the Movie	2005	Video	Himself (voice)
Inside Deep Throat	2005	Documentary	Himself
Lincoln	2005	TV Movie documentary
Why We Fight	2005	Documentary	Himself
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn	2004	TV Series	Himself
Thinking XXX	2004	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Brief History of Disbelief	2004	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself - Author
Da Ali G Show	2004	TV Series	Himself
JFK: The Day That Changed America	2003	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Author
American Masters	1994-2003	TV Series documentary	Himself
Federico Fellini - Mit den Augen der Anderen	2003	Documentary
Gore Vidal: My Life	2002	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Arena	1977-2001	TV Series documentary	Himself
Na plovárne	2001	TV Series	Himself
Rescued from the Closet	2001	Video documentary	Himself
The Burgess Variations	1999	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
Negro sobre blanco	1999	TV Series	Himself
Avisa'ns quan arribi el 2000	1999	TV Series	Himself
The Mike & Ben Show	1999	TV Series	Himself
Thomas Jefferson	1997	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself, writer
Lo + plus	1996	TV Series	Himself
Reputations	1996	TV Series documentary	Himself
Gore Vidal's American Presidency	1996	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself - Host
Clive Anderson Talks Back	1991-1995	TV Series	Himself
Omnibus	1995	TV Series documentary	Himself
Gore Vidal	1995	TV Movie	Himself
The Celluloid Closet	1995	Documentary	Himself
In Search of Oz	1994	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic	1993	Video documentary	Himself - Author
American Experience	1993	TV Series documentary	Himself
Late Night with Conan O'Brien	1993	TV Series	Himself
The Great Depression	1993	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Clive James Interview	1991	TV Series
Memory & Imagination: New Pathways to the Library of Congress	1990	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Opinions	1989	TV Series	Himself
CBS This Morning	1989	TV Series	Himself
The Pat Sajak Show	1989	TV Series	Himself
Muy personal	1987	TV Series	Himself
Àngel Casas Show	1986	TV Series	Himself
National Geographic Explorer	1985	TV Series documentary	Himself
Wogan	1984	TV Series	Himself
Book Four	1984	TV Series	Himself - Interviewee
Gore Vidal: The Man Who Said No	1984	Documentary	Himself
Apostrophes	1983	TV Series	Himself
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula'	1981	Documentary	Himself - Writer
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	1964-1981	TV Series	Himself - Guest / Himself
Tomorrow Coast to Coast	1981	TV Series	Himself
The Mike Douglas Show	1972-1978	TV Series	Himself - Author
The Paul Ryan Show	1977	TV Series	Himself
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman	1976	TV Series	Himself
Dinah!	1976	TV Series	Himself
The 48th Annual Academy Awards	1976	TV Special	Himself - Presenter: Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay
Donahue	1973-1974	TV Series	Himself
Parkinson	1972	TV Series	Himself
The David Frost Show	1969-1972	TV Series	Himself
The Dick Cavett Show	1968-1972	TV Series	Himself
Laugh-In	1971	TV Series	Himself
Playboy After Dark	1969	TV Series	Himself
Today	1967	TV Series	Himself
CBS Reports	1967	TV Series documentary	Himself
What's My Line?	1960-1964	TV Series	Himself - Guest Panelist
The David Susskind Show	1962	TV Series	Himself
The Jack Paar Tonight Show	1959-1962	TV Series	Himself
The Tonight Show	1962	TV Series	Himself - Writer

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
The 67th Annual Tony Awards	2013	TV Special documentary	Himself - Writer (In Memoriam)
Democracy Now!	2012-2013	TV Series	Himself
American Masters	2012	TV Series documentary	Himself
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Out	2011	Documentary	Himself
Public Speaking	2010	Documentary
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel	2009	Documentary	Himself
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second	2003	Video documentary	Himself
XXI Century	2003	TV Series documentary	Himself - Writer & Historian
The Cockettes	2002	Documentary	Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	1992	TV Series	Himself
Forty Years at the I.C.A.	1987	TV Series	Himself
The Dick Cavett Show	1973	TV Series	Himself
Media Buzz	2015	TV Series	Himself
Charlie Rose	2015	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Best of Enemies	2015	Documentary	Himself
The 50 Year Argument	2014	Documentary	Himself

Awards

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1983	Lucien Barrière Literary Award	Deauville Film Festival		For the novel "Creation".
1955	Edgar	Edgar Allan Poe Awards	Best Episode in a TV Series	Suspense (1949)

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1986	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Writing in a Miniseries or a Special	Dress Gray (1986)
1965	WGA Award (Screen)	Writers Guild of America, USA	Best Written American Drama	The Best Man (1964)