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Personal Info

Known Credits 44

Gender Male

Birthdate 1925-10-03 (100 Y.O)

Place Of Birth West Point, New York, USA

Also Known For Eugene Luther Gore VidalEdgar BoxCameron KayKatherine Everard고어 비달Гор Видалگور ویدال

Gore Vidal

Biography

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. He unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the U.S. House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the U.S. ...

Known For

Best of Enemies

Salinger

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

Valentino's Ghost

Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open

Acting

2015 -- Best of Enemies | Self

2013 -- Salinger | Self - Writer

2013 -- Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia | Self

2013 -- Valentino's Ghost | Self

2013 -- Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open | Self

2012 -- Norman Mailer: The American | Self

2010 -- Public Speaking | Self (archive footage)

2010 -- Standing Army | Self

2009 -- Shrink | George Charles

2008 -- Obscene | Self

2008 -- Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11 | Self

2006 -- The U.S. vs. John Lennon | Self

2006 -- Global Haywire | Self

2005 -- Revisiting Brideshead | Self

2005 -- One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern | Self

2005 -- Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula | Self

2005 -- Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She | Narrator (Voice)

2005 -- Inside Deep Throat | Self

2005 -- Why We Fight | Self - Author, "Imperial America"

2005 -- High Tech Lincoln | Self

2004 -- Thinking XXX | Self

2003 -- The Education of Gore Vidal | Self

2003 -- Federico Fellini - Through the Eyes of Others | Self

2002 -- Igby Goes Down | First School Headmaster (uncredited)

2002 -- The Cockettes | Self (archive footage)

2001 -- Rescued from the Closet | Self

1997 -- Gattaca | Director Josef

1997 -- Shadow Conspiracy | Page

1996 -- The Celluloid Closet | Self

1994 -- Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage | Self

1994 -- In Search of Oz | Self

1994 -- With Honors | Prof. Pitkannan

1993 -- The Great Depression: A Job at Ford's | Self

1993 -- Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic | Self - Author

1992 -- Bob Roberts | Senator Brickley Paiste

1989 -- Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid | Preacher (uncredited)

1984 -- Gore Vidal: The Man Who Said No | Self

1981 -- A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula' | Self - Writer

1972 -- Roma | Gore Vidal (uncredited)

1967 -- The Homosexuals | Self

1964 -- The Best Man | Delegate (uncredited)

1959 -- Suddenly, Last Summer | Audience Member at Operation (uncredited)

1946 -- Ritual in Transfigured Time | Man (uncredited)

1936 -- Ten Year Old Boy Pilot | Himself