Tennessee Williams
Born in Columbus, Mississippi, USA — Mar 26 1911• Died Feb 24 1983
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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 o…
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Tennessee Williams's Credits
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BBC Play of the Month
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Midi Première
Self
Monday's Theater
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The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
A Streetcar Named Desire
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Suddenly, Last Summer
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Boom!
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Sweet Bird of Youth
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This Property Is Condemned
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The Night of the Iguana
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The Fugitive Kind
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Summer and Smoke
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Baby Doll
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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
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Senso
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Self (archive footage)
Sweet Bird of Youth
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
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The Migrants
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Period of Adjustment
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The Screen Director
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Rose Tattoo
Man at Mardi Gras Club (uncredited)
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
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Orpheus Descending
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The Glass Menagerie
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National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
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The Yellow Bird
Narrator (voice)
Suddenly, Last Summer
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The Glass Menagerie
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Tennessee Williams' South
National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Beautiful Darling
Self (archive footage)
A Streetcar Named Desire
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Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Desire
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27 Wagons Full of Cotton
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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The Piper
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Rubber Woman
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A Streetcar Named Desire: Cameri
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The Glass Menagerie
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The Glass Menagerie
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere
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Dragon Country
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Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
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Bourbon Street Blues
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Hilsen fra Bertha
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Here Without Me
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Orpheus Descends to Hell
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Akale
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Alfarysa
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Camino Real
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Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Self - Playwright (archive footage)
The Glass Menagerie
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Noir et blanc
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Sweet Bird of Youth
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Een vreemde liefde
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Lady Vaselina
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Cat on Fire
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The Night of the Iguana
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The Drift
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Orpheus steigt herab
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Talk to Me Like the Rain
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Suddenly, Last Summer
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The Glass Menagerie
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Begegnung mit Tennessee Williams
Self - Interviewee
A Streetcar Named Desire
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Le Paradis sur terre
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