Known For
Writing
Born
May 01, 1924
Died
Oct 29, 1995
Place of Birth
Alvarado, Texas, USA
Credits
19 titles
Terry Southern
Biography
Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Terry Southern, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
National Theatre Live: Dr. Strangelove
Original Film Writer
The Source
Self
The Telephone
Writer
Burroughs: The Movie
Self
Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
Himself
Saturday Night Live
Writer
End of the Road
Mr. Caruso
The Magic Christian
Screenplay
Easy Rider
Writer
Candy
Novel
Barbarella
Screenplay
The Queen
Self - Jury Member
Don't Make Waves
Screenplay
The Cincinnati Kid
Screenplay
The Loved One
Screenplay
The Collector
Additional Writing
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Screenplay
Emperor Jones
Adaptation
Armchair Theatre
Writer