Born on this day – William Peter Blatty:

 

Writer

Director

Actor

Producer

January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017

Credits:

Books:

Which Way to Mecca, Jack? (1959); John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1963); I, Billy Shakespeare (1965); Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane (1966); The Exorcist (1971); The Ninth Configuration (aka Twinkle, Twinkle “Killer” Kane) (1978); Legion (1983); Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing: A Fable (1996); Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing: A Hollywood Christmas Carol (2013); Elsewhere (2009); Dimiter (aka The Redemption) (2010 & 2013); Crazy (2010); The Exorcist for the 21st Century (2016); I'll Tell Them I Remember You (autobiography) (1974); William Peter Blatty on 'The Exorcist': From Novel to Screen (1974); If There Were Demons Then Perhaps There Were Angels: William Peter Blatty's Own Story of the Exorcist (2001); Finding Peter: A True Story of The Hand of Providence and Evidence of Life After Death (2015).

Movies:

The Exorcist III (1990); The Ninth Configuration (1980); The Exorcist (1973); John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965); No Place to Land (1958); Ficción sonora (2006); Mastermind (1976); Insight (1960); Darling Lili (1970); The Great Bank Robbery (1969); Gunn (1967); What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966); Promise Her Anything (1966); A Shot in the Dark (1964); The Man from the Diners' Club (1963).