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Tennessee Williams
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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries E…
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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. At age 33, after years of obscurity, Williams suddenly became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). With his later work, Williams attempted a new style that did not appeal as widely to audiences. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Much of Williams's most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays, and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. From Wikipedia.
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2027
National Theatre at Home: Suddenly Last Summer
Movie Writer
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2025
A Streetcar Named Desire
Movie Writer
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2021
The Glass Menagerie
Movie Writer
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2021
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Movie Self - Playwright (archive footage)
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2018
National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Movie Writer
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2014
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
Movie Theatre Play
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2011
Le Paradis sur terre
Movie Writer
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2011
Here Without Me
Movie Theatre Play
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2010
Beautiful Darling
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2008
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Movie Writer
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2007
Suddenly, Last Summer
Movie Writer
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2004
Akale
Movie Theatre Play
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2003
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Movie Novel
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2002
The Yellow Bird
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2002
Desire
Movie Idea
- 1998
More credits
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1995
A Streetcar Named Desire
Movie Writer
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1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1993
Suddenly, Last Summer
Movie Author
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1991
Rubber Woman
Movie Author
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1991
The Night of the Iguana
Movie Author
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1990
Lady Vaselina
Movie Theatre Play
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1990
Orpheus Descending
Movie Writer
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1990
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
Movie Writer
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1990
Een vreemde liefde
Movie Theatre Play
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1989
Sweet Bird of Youth
Movie Writer
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1989
A Streetcar Named Desire
Movie Writer
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1989
The Drift
Movie Novel
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1989
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Movie Original Story
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1987
A Streetcar Named Desire
Movie Novel
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1987
The Glass Menagerie
Movie Writer
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1986
Orpheus Descends to Hell
Movie Writer
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1986
Alfarysa
Movie Writer
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1986
Noir et blanc
Movie Original Story
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1985
The Piper
Movie Novel
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1984
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Movie Theatre Play
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1984
A Streetcar Named Desire
Movie Theatre Play
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show Theatre Play
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1979
Bourbon Street Blues
Movie Writer
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1978
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV show Self
