Tennessee Williams
Known for: Writing
Born: March 26, 1911
Died: February 24, 1983
Place of birth: Columbus, Mississippi, USA
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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Filmography
73 movies · 10 TV shows, newest first
NR
A Streetcar Named Desire
2025
6.0
The Glass Menagerie
2021
2.5
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
2021
4.5
National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
2018
7.9
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
2014
8.0
Le Paradis sur terre
2011
7.3
Here Without Me
2011
6.3
Beautiful Darling
2010
5.3
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
2008
NR
Suddenly, Last Summer
2007
9.0
Akale
2004
6.2
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2003
10.0
The Yellow Bird
2002
NR
Desire
2002
NR
A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere
1998
6.9
A Streetcar Named Desire
1995
9.0
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
6.4
Suddenly, Last Summer
1993
NR
Rubber Woman
1991
NR
The Night of the Iguana
1991
NR
Lady Vaselina
1990
4.6
Orpheus Descending
19907.0
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
19909.0
Een vreemde liefde
1990
5.5
Sweet Bird of Youth
1989
1.0
A Streetcar Named Desire
1989
NR
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1989
10.0
The Drift
1989
NR
A Streetcar Named Desire
1987
6.3
The Glass Menagerie
1987
NR
Orpheus Descends to Hell
1986
NR
Alfarysa
1986
4.6
Noir et blanc
1986
6.6
The Piper
1985
5.7
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1984
5.8
A Streetcar Named Desire
1984
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
6.1
Bourbon Street Blues
1979
7.4
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
NR
Sweet Bird of Youth
1978
7.0
Cat on Fire
1977
5.0
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1976
5.5
Talk to Me Like the Rain
1976
8.3
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
19769.5
O Gesto, a Festa, a Mensagem - Dois Mil Anos de Teatro
1976
9.0
Midi Première
1975
6.1
The Migrants
1974
7.7
The Glass Menagerie
1973
10.0
Tennessee Williams' South
1973NR
Begegnung mit Tennessee Williams
1972
7.2
Monday's Theater
1972
6.5
Dragon Country
1970
4.6
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
1970NR
The Glass Menagerie
1969
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
5.9
Boom!
1968NR
Hilsen fra Bertha
1968
6.7
The Glass Menagerie
19667.0
CBS Playhouse
1966
8.0
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
1966
7.3
NET Playhouse
1966
6.4
This Property Is Condemned
1966
5.2
BBC Play of the Month
1965NR
Orpheus steigt herab
1965
4.3
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
7.2
The Night of the Iguana
1964
6.0
Period of Adjustment
1962
6.7
Sweet Bird of Youth
1962
6.9
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
1961
6.6
Summer and Smoke
1961
6.9
The Fugitive Kind
1960
7.3
Suddenly, Last Summer
19597.3
Small World
1958
7.6
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958
5.0
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
1958
7.0
Baby Doll
1956
6.9
The Rose Tattoo
1955
7.2
Senso
1954
7.6
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951
7.0
The Screen Director
1951
5.7
The Glass Menagerie
1950NR
Camino Real
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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