Norman Mailer

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norman Mailer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Gilmore Girls

NDR Talk Show

The Merv Griffin Show

Apostrophes

The Dick Cavett Show

The Oscars

maybrit illner

All Movies (36)

• How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Capote Tapes2021 · as Self (voice) (archive footage)
• What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael2019 · as Self
• Best of Enemies2015 · as Self (archival)
• The 50 Year Argument2014 · as Himself
• Norman Mailer: The American2012 · as Self (archive footage)
• Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower2008 · as Self
• 365 Day Project2007 · as Self
• Marilyn Monroe: Still Life2006 · as Self - Writer & Filmmaker
• The Outsider2005 · as Self
• Inside Deep Throat2005 · as Self
• The Education of Gore Vidal2003 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'2003 · as Self (archive footage)
• New York in the Fifties2001 · as Self
• L'étrange festival2001 · as Himself
• Oh My America2000 · as Himself
• Mailer on Mailer2000 · as Himself
• Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale2000
• Cremaster 21999 · as Harry Houdini
• When We Were Kings1996 · as Self
• Baby Trouble Hole1996 · as Interviewed
• The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg1994 · as Self
• Hello Actors Studio1988 · as Self
• King Lear1988 · as Self (uncredited)
• Empire City1985 · as Self
• Ragtime1981 · as Stanford White
• Chytilová Versus Forman1981 · as Self
• Town Bloody Hall1979 · as Himself
• Year of the Woman1973 · as Self
• Maidstone1971 · as Norman T. Kingsley
• Norman Mailer vs. Fun City1970
• Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising1970
• Beyond the Law1968 · as Lt. Francis Xavier Pope
• Diaries, Notes, and Sketches1968 · as Self
• Wild 901968 · as Prince
• Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?1968 · as Self

All TV Shows (12)

• Gero von Boehm begegnet...2002 · as Self
• Gilmore Girls2000 · as Norman Mailer
• maybrit illner1999 · as Self
• NDR Talk Show1979 · as Self
• PBS News Hour1975 · as Self
• Apostrophes1975 · as Self
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• The Merv Griffin Show1962 · as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• The David Susskind Show1959 · as Self
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Today1952 · as Self