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Short Info
Net Worth | $12 million |
Date Of Birth | October 3, 1925 |
Died | July 31, 2012, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States |
Fact | 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.". |
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... |
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Quotes
# | Quote |
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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 |
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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] |
Pictures
Movies
Writer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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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 |
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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 | Character |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
Source: IMDb, Wikipedia