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Norman Mailer Acting Filmography (34)

How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer
2023·Self (archive footage)
The Capote Tapes
2021·Self (voice) (archive footage)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019·Self
Best of Enemies
2015·Self (archival)
The 50 Year Argument
2014·Himself
Norman Mailer: The American
2012·Self (archive footage)
Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower
2008·Self
365 Day Project
2007·Self
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
2006·Self - Writer & Filmmaker
The Outsider
2005·Self
Inside Deep Throat
2005·Self
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003·Self (archive footage)
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003·Self (archive footage)
New York in the Fifties
2001·Self
L'étrange festival
2001·Himself
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
2000
Mailer on Mailer
2000·Himself
Oh My America
2000·Himself
Cremaster 2
1999·Harry Houdini
When We Were Kings
1996·Self
Baby Trouble Hole
1996·Interviewed
King Lear
1988·Self (uncredited)
Hello Actors Studio
1988·Self
Empire City
1985·Self
Ragtime
1981·Stanford White
Town Bloody Hall
1979·Himself
Year of the Woman
1973·Self
Maidstone
1971·Norman T. Kingsley
Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
1970
Norman Mailer vs. Fun City
1970
Beyond the Law
1968·Lt. Francis Xavier Pope
Wild 90
1968·Prince
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?
1968·Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968·Self