Truman Capote

Also Credited As:

Truman Streckfus Persons
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Biography

Capote was the toast of high society and one of literature's most promising young authors when he emerged with two of his most revered novels, Other Voices, Other Room (1948) and The Grass Harp (1951). His literary prowess grew with arguably his best work of fiction, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), which introduced the world to the independent and social-climbing Holly Golightly. But Capote reached his greatest achievement with In Cold Blood …
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Job Title

Actor, Writer, Other

Born

September 30, 1924

LATEST CREDITS

Murder By Death

Lionel Twain

A Christmas Memory

Narration, from short story ("A Christmas Memory" )

Cocksucker Blues

Actor

Trilogy

Narrator, Screenplay, from stories ("Miriam" "Among the Paths to Eden" "A Christmas Memory" )

Hand Carved Coffins

Source Material (from novel )

Hello Stranger

Screenplay

Summer Crossing

Source Material (from novella: "Summer Crossing")

Truman Capote's "The Glass House"

From Story

Children on Their Birthdays

Source Material (from short story )

In Cold Blood

Book as Source Material ("In Cold Blood" )

The Innocents

Screenplay

One Christmas

from short story ("One Christmas" )

Breakfast At Tiffany's

From Story ("Breakfast at Tiffany's" )

Beat the Devil

Screenplay

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Source Material (from novel) ("Other Voices, Other Rooms" )

The Grass Harp

Source Material (from novel) ("The Grass Harp" )

Indiscretion of an American Wife

dialogue