Norman Mailer
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 31, 1923
- Died
- November 10, 2007
- Birthplace
- Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
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.
Filmography
- The Executioner’s Song
The Executioner’s Song TBA
Book
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer 2023
as Self (archive footage)
The Capote Tapes 2021
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael 2019
as Self
Best of Enemies 2015
as Self (archival)
The 50 Year Argument 2014
as Himself
Norman Mailer: The American 2012
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower 2008
as Self
365 Day Project 2007
as Self
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life 2006
as Self - Writer & Filmmaker
The Outsider 2005
as Self
Inside Deep Throat 2005
as Self
The Education of Gore Vidal 2003
as Self (archive footage)
- The Cremaster Cycle
The Cremaster Cycle 2003
as Harry Houdini ('Cremaster 2')
- The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' 2003
as Self (archive footage)
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story 2002
Executive Producer, Writer
- New York in the Fifties
New York in the Fifties 2001
as Self
- L'étrange festival
L'étrange festival 2001
as Himself
American Tragedy 2000
Writer
- Oh My America
Oh My America 2000
as Himself
Mailer on Mailer 2000
as Himself
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale 2000
Actor
Cremaster 2 1999
as Harry Houdini
When We Were Kings 1996
as Self
Baby Trouble Hole 1996
as Interviewed
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg 1994
as Self
Hello Actors Studio 1988
as Self
King Lear 1988
as Self (uncredited)
Tough Guys Don't Dance 1987
Writer, Director, Novel
Empire City 1985
as Self
The Executioner's Song 1982
Book, Screenplay
Ragtime 1981
as Stanford White
Chytilová Versus Forman 1981
as Self
Marilyn: The Untold Story 1980
Book
Town Bloody Hall 1979
as Himself, Book
Year of the Woman 1973
as Self
Maidstone 1971
as Norman T. Kingsley, Writer, Director, Producer, Editor
Norman Mailer vs. Fun City 1970
Actor
Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising 1970
Actor
Beyond the Law 1968
as Lt. Francis Xavier Pope, Director, Editor, Writer, Producer
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches 1968
as Self
Wild 90 1968
as Prince, Director, Editor, Producer
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up? 1968
as Self
An American Dream 1966
Novel
The Naked and the Dead 1958
Novel
Untitled (Millicent's Dream) 1947
Editor, Director
Credits from TMDB.