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Terry Southern
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 35
Top works
- Puritan porn
- Naked lunch
- The Magic Christian
- Now dig this
- Cincinnati Kid
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Film & TV
Alvarado, Texas, USA
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…
Known for
- The Source — Self1999
- Burroughs: The Movie — Self1984
- Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act — Himself1983
- End of the Road — Mr. Caruso1970
- The Queen — Self - Jury Member1968
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- Listeners
- 226
- Total plays
- 681
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Terry
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Alvarado
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- Terry Southern American novelist, essayist, screenwriter (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1924-05-01
- date of death
- 1995-10-29
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- name in native language
- Terry Southern
- writing language
- English language
- Commons category
- Terry Southern
- member of
- Writers Guild of America West
- archives at
- New York Public Library Main Branch
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