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. 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.
Wrote 65
2020s
- 2027
National Theatre at Home: Suddenly Last Summer
Writer
- 2025
A Streetcar Named Desire
Writer
- 2021
The Glass Menagerie
Writer
2010s
- 2018
National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Writer
- 2014
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
Theatre Play, Writer
- 2011
Le Paradis sur terre
Writer
Here Without Me
Theatre Play
2000s
- 2008
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Writer
- 2007
Suddenly, Last Summer
Writer
- 2004
Akale
Theatre Play
- 2003
- 2002
The Yellow Bird
Writer
Desire
Idea
1990s
- 1998
A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere
Writer
- 1995
A Streetcar Named Desire
Writer, Theatre Play
- 1993
Suddenly, Last Summer
Author, Writer
- 1991
Rubber Woman
Author
The Night of the Iguana
Author
- 1990
Lady Vaselina
Theatre Play
Orpheus Descending
Writer
1980s
- 1989
A Streetcar Named Desire
Writer
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Original Story
- 1987
A Streetcar Named Desire
Novel
- 1986
Orpheus Descends to Hell
Writer
Alfarysa
Writer
Noir et blanc
Original Story
- 1985
The Piper
Novel
- 1984
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Theatre Play, Writer
- 1982
1970s
- 1979
Bourbon Street Blues
Writer
- 1978
Sweet Bird of Youth
Author
- 1977
Cat on Fire
Original Story, Theatre Play
- 1976
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Writer
Talk to Me Like the Rain
Writer
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Writer
- 1974
The Migrants
Story
- 1973
The Glass Menagerie
Theatre Play
- 1972
- 1970
Dragon Country
Theatre Play
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
Theatre Play
1960s
- 1968
Boom!
Theatre Play, Screenplay
- 1966
The Glass Menagerie
Writer
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Writer
- 1965
- 1964
The Night of the Iguana
Theatre Play
- 1962
Period of Adjustment
Theatre Play
Sweet Bird of Youth
Theatre Play
- 1961
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Novel
Summer and Smoke
Theatre Play
- 1960
1950s
- 1959
- 1958
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
Writer
- 1956
- 1955
The Rose Tattoo
Screenplay, Theatre Play
- 1954
- 1951
- 1950
The Glass Menagerie
Theatre Play, Screenplay
Acted in 1
1950s
- 1955
The Rose Tattoo
Man at Mardi Gras Club (uncredited)
Appearances9
2010s
- 2010
Beautiful Darling
Self (archive footage)
2000s
- 2002
The Yellow Bird
Narrator (voice)
1990s
- 1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Self (archive footage)
1970s
- 1978
- 1975
- 1973
Tennessee Williams' South
Self
1950s
- 1951
The Screen Director
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)