| George Plimpton  AKA George Ames Plimpton
Born: 18-Mar-1927
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 25-Sep-2003
Location of death: Manhattan, NY
Cause of death: Natural Causes
Remains: Cremated
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Paper Lion Father: Francis T. P. Plimpton (lawyer/diplomat, b. 1900, d. 1983)
Mother: Pauline Ames (b. 1901, d. 1995)
Brother: Francis T. P. Plimpton, Jr. (b. 1928)
Brother: Oakes Ames Plimpton (b. 1933)
Sister: Sarah Gay Plimpton (b. 1936)
Wife: Freddy Medora Espy (m. 1968, div. 1988, two children)
Wife: Sara Whitehead Dudley (m. 1992, until his death)
High School: Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
University: BA, Harvard University (1950)
University: BA English, Cambridge University (1952)
The Paris Review Editor (1953-2003)
The Paris Review Co-Founder (1953)
Harvard Lampoon
Dutch Treat Club (1975-88)
Endorsement of Mattel Intellivision
Funeral: Andy Warhol (1987)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Soul Power (4-Sep-2008) · Himself
Factory Girl (29-Dec-2006) · Himself
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (4-Sep-2004) · Himself
Just Visiting (06-Apr-2001)
Sam the Man (Feb-2001) · Himself
The Sports Pages (7-Jan-2001) · Himself
Ed TV (26-Mar-1999) · Panel Member
The Last Days of Disco (29-May-1998) · Clubgoer
Good Will Hunting (5-Dec-1997) · Psychologist
When We Were Kings (25-Oct-1996) · Himself
Nixon (20-Dec-1995) · President's Lawyer
Just Cause (17-Feb-1995) · Elder Phillips
Baseball (18-Sep-1994) · Himself
Little Man Tate (6-Sep-1991) · Winston F. Buckner
L.A. Story (8-Feb-1991)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (21-Dec-1990)
The Civil War (23-Sep-1990)
Easy Wheels (15-May-1989) · Surgeon
A Fool and His Money (1989)
Volunteers (16-Aug-1985) · Lawrence Bourne, Jr.
Pumping Iron II: The Women (3-May-1985) · Himself
Reds (3-Dec-1981) · Horace Whigham
If Ever I See You Again (24-May-1978)
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (Dec-1977)
Rio Lobo (17-Dec-1970) · 4th Gunman
The Queen (17-Jun-1968) · Himself
Beyond the Law (1968)
Author of books:
Out of My League (1961, sports)
Paper Lion (1966, sports)
The Bogey Man (1968, sports)
Shadow Box (1977)
The Curious Case of Sidd Finch (1987)
The Best of Plimpton (1990, essays)
Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career (1997, biography)
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