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 …

Movies & TV Shows

1. Gilmore Girls (2000) — Norman Mailer
2. When We Were Kings (1996) — Self
3. Ragtime (1981) — Stanford White
4. Best of Enemies (2015) — Self (archival)
5. Inside Deep Throat (2005) — Self
6. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) — Self
7. The Oscars (1953) — Self
8. PBS News Hour (1975) — Self
9. King Lear (1988) — Self (uncredited)
10. Today (1952) — Self
11. Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) — Self
12. Cremaster 2 (1999) — Harry Houdini
13. The Dick Cavett Show (1968) — Self - Guest
14. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (2000)
15. The 50 Year Argument (2014) — Himself
16. What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019) — Self
17. Town Bloody Hall (1979) — Himself
18. Maidstone (1971) — Norman T. Kingsley
19. The Merv Griffin Show (1962) — Self
20. The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1994) — Self
21. The Capote Tapes (2021) — Self (voice) (archive footage)
22. Beyond the Law (1968) — Lt. Francis Xavier Pope
23. The Outsider (2005) — Self
24. Wild 90 (1968) — Prince
25. NDR Talk Show (1979) — Self
26. Apostrophes (1975) — Self
27. Hello Actors Studio (1988) — Self
28. The Education of Gore Vidal (2003) — Self (archive footage)
29. Norman Mailer: The American (2012) — Self (archive footage)
30. The David Susskind Show (1959) — Self
31. maybrit illner (1999) — Self
32. Year of the Woman (1973) — Self
33. 365 Day Project (2007) — Self
34. Mailer on Mailer (2000) — Himself
35. Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower (2008) — Self
36. The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' (2003) — Self (archive footage)
37. Empire City (1985) — Self
38. Chytilová Versus Forman (1981) — Self
39. New York in the Fifties (2001) — Self
40. L'étrange festival (2001) — Himself

Directed

1. Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987) — Director
2. Maidstone (1971) — Director
3. Beyond the Law (1968) — Director
4. Wild 90 (1968) — Director
5. Untitled (Millicent's Dream) (1947) — Director