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Tennessee Williams

Known for: Writing

Biography: 1911-03-26

Deathday: 1983-02-25 (71 years old)

Biography

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.

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Filmography

all 76

Movies 72

Writer 54

self 11

TV Shows 4

Screenplay 3

Narrator 1

Adaptation

Tennessee Williams

Biography

Filmography

all 76

Movies 72

Writer 54

self 11

TV Shows 4

Screenplay 3

Narrator 1

A Lady’s Beaded Bag (2024)

The Glass Menagerie (2021)

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2021)

National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2018)

National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire (2014)

And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)

Le Paradis sur terre (2011)

Here Without Me (2011)

Beautiful Darling (2010)

Ptown Diaries (2009)

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008)

Suddenly Last Summer (2007)

Akale (2004)

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)

The Yellow Bird (2002)

Desire (2002)

A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere (1998)

The Kindness of Strangers (1998)

Tennessee Williams: Wounded Genius (1998)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (1994)

Suddenly, Last Summer (1993)

Rubber Woman (1991)

Orpheus Descending (1990)

27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1990)

Een vreemde liefde (1990)

Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)

Трамвай «Желание» (1989)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1989)

The Glass Menagerie (1987)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1987)

Orpheus Descends to Hell (1986)

الفريسة (1986)

Noir et blanc (1986)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)

Bourbon Street Blues (1979)

The Kennedy Center Honors (1978)

Cat on Fire (1977)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976)

Talk to Me Like the Rain (1976)

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1976)

Midi Première (1975)

The Migrants (1974)

The Glass Menagerie (1973)

Tennessee Williams' South (1973)

Monday's Theater (1972)

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)

Dragon Country (1970)

The Glass Menagerie (1969)

The Dick Cavett Show (1968)

Boom! (1968)

Hilsen fra Bertha (1968)

The Glass Menagerie (1966)

Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)

This Property Is Condemned (1966)

Orpheus steigt herab (1965)

The Night of the Iguana (1964)

Period of Adjustment (1962)

Porträt einer Madonna (1962)

Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)

Summer and Smoke (1961)

The Fugitive Kind (1960)

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Glasmenagerie (1958)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Three Plays by Tennessee Williams (1958)

Baby Doll (1956)

The Rose Tattoo (1955)

Known For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1911-03-26

Deathday

1983-02-25 (71 years old)

Birth Name

Thomas Lanier Williams

Birth Place

Columbus, United States of America

Father

Cornelius Coffin Williams

Mother

Edwina Estelle Dakin

Citizenships

United States of America

Residences

New Orleans · St. Louis · Columbus · Clarksdale · Mississippi, United States of America

Awards

star on Playwrights' Sidewalk, St. Louis Literary Award, Florida Artists Hall of Fame, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Kennedy Center Honors, Tony Award for Best Play