Truman Capote Filmography

Born:: September 30, 1924 in New Orleans, LA
Occupation:: Actor, Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter, Book Author
Biography:: Truman Capote was best known as a major American author. Many of his stories such as Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood have been adapted to films, but he himself has also occasionally collaborated on movie scripts. In 1976, Capote appeared in the film Murder by Death. ~ Sandra Brennan, All...Read More

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Infamous

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: Douglas McGrath's Infamous represents the second major biopic about the avant-garde belletrist Truman Capote to be released within a year. It thus tells roughly the same story as Bennett Miller's earlier Capote, recounting the events that belied the writer's six-year authorship of the seminal Read More

10/13/06
Children on Their Birthdays

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Sheryl Lee, Joe Pichler, Jesse Plemons, Tania Raymonde

Synopsis: A boy in the deep South learns the joys and sorrows of first love in this comedy-drama based on the short story by Truman Capote. Billy Bob Murphy (Joe Pichler) is a thirteen-year-old boy growing up in a small Alabama town in 1947. Billy Bob's mother Elinore (Sheryl Lee) lost her husband during Read More

10/18/02
A Christmas Memory

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Eric Lloyd, Patty Duke, Piper Laurie, Jeffrey DeMunn, Anita Gilette

Synopsis: Made for television, A Christmas Memory is adapted from the wistful short story by Truman Capote, previously filmed in 1967 as a one-hour episode of ABC Stage 67. Capote himself narrated the original version, in which he recalled his lonely childhood and the strong bond between himself and his Read More

1997
In Cold Blood

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Jonathan Kaplan remakes Richard Brooks' 1967 masterpiece that takes the viewer inside the mind of a pair of killers during a shocking murder of a farm family in 1950s Kansas. Anthony Edwards and Eric Roberts star in this version. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
Other Voices, Other Rooms

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Lothaire Bluteau, Anna Thomson, David Speck, April Turner, Frank Taylor

Synopsis: A 13-year-old boy embarks upon a perilous quest to discover the enigma of his estranged father's illness in this dark drama that is based on a critically acclaimed 1948 novel by Truman Capote. Joel Sansom has just arrived to his father's ramshackle Deep South plantation. He hasn't seen his dad in Read More

1995
The Grass Harp

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Edward Furlong, Nell Carter

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. After the death of his parents, Collin Fenwick (Edward Furlong) finds himself living in a small town with two of his aunts, Dolly (Piper Laurie Read More

1995
One Christmas

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn and Henry Winkler star in this heartwarming Christmas drama adapted from a Truman Capote short story. In the film, a young boy is finally reunited with his dallying dad. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Master Misery

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: This adaptation of a Truman Capote story centers on a woman who finds what she desires only to have it not work out the way she thought it would. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Murder by Death

Actors: Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith

Synopsis: As penned by Neil Simon, this satire of movie mysteries is set in motion when several prominent detectives are invited to the mansion of the reclusive Lionel Twain (Truman Capote). In Ten Little Indians fashion, the gathered sleuths are locked into the forbidding mansion, and subject to various Read More

1976
The Glass House

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Alan Alda, Vic Morrow

Synopsis: A group of new prisoners, including a political science professor, Jonathan Paige (Alan Alda), and a student, Allan Campbell (Kristoffer Tabori), arrive at a state prison, along with a new guard, Brian Courtland (Clu Gulager). Paige is a serving a year for manslaughter -- he accidentally killed a Read More

1972
Cocksucker Blues

Actors: The Rolling Stones, Marshall Chess, Stevie Wonder, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote

Synopsis: The behind-the-scenes activities of the Rolling Stones on their 1972 American tour are the focus of this quasi-documentary film which has had limited showings due to a lawsuit brought by the band, doubtlessly on the advice of their lawyers. Thus, its official release date (if any) is open to Read More

1972
Truman Capote's Trilogy

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mildred Natwick, Susan Dunfee, Carol Gustafson, Robin Ponterio

Synopsis: This trilogy begins with "Miriam" in which the title character (Susan Dunfee) watches as her longtime nanny Miss Miller (Mildred Natwick) slowly sinks into insanity. In "Among The Paths to Eden," Mary (Maureen Stapleton) is a lonely woman searching for a husband among the widowers paying respects Read More

1969
In Cold Blood

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Gerald O'Loughlin, John Gallaudet

Synopsis: Richard Brooks wrote and directed this stark black-and-white (with brilliantly evocative cinematography by Conrad Hall) study of two drifters who murder a family, based on Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. The film takes place in Holcomb, Kansas, where four members of the Herbert Read More

1967
Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: Narrated by the author himself, this heart-warming made-for-television drama takes place in his childhood and recalls the time he helped bake a truckload of fruitcakes for friends and family with his ancient cousin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1966
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: In an idealized New York City during the early '60s, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is a charming socialite with a youthful zest for life who lives alone in a nearly bare apartment. She has such a flippant lifestyle that she won't even give her cat a name, because that would be too much of a Read More

1961
The Innocents

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Megs Jenkins, Pamela Franklin, Martin Stephens, Michael Redgrave, Peter Wyngarde

Synopsis: In this lugubrious but brilliantly realized adaptation of Henry James' classic novella The Turn of the Screw, 19th century British governess Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) arrives at a bleak mansion to take care of Flora (Pamela Franklin) and Miles (Martin Stephens), the wealthy household's two Read More

1961
Indiscretion of an American Wife

Crew: Dialogue Writer

Actors: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi, Richard Beymer

Synopsis: Legendary producer David O. Selznick teamed with Italian neorealist Vittorio De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) to bring audiences this heartfelt romantic drama concerning the pain of lost love and the difficulty of saying goodbye. When a beautiful but married American woman, Mary Forbes (Jennifer Read More

1954
Terminal Station

Crew: Dialogue Writer

Actors: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi, Richard Beymer

Synopsis: Indiscretion of an American Wife began its life as a romantic drama entitled Terminal Station, directed with extraordinary skill and sensitivity by neorealist filmmaker Vittorio De Sica and starring Jennifer Jones and Montgomery Clift as a visiting American housewife and her Italian lover. Their Read More

4/2/53
Beat the Devil

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. Bogart's associates include pompous fraud Robert Morley, and Peter Lorre as the German-accented "O'Hara", whose wartime record is forever a source of speculation and suspicion. Becoming Read More

1953