| 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
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Paper Lion Father: Francis T. Plimpton (lawyer, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations)
Mother: Pauline Ames
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 Co-Founder, Editor 1953-2003
Harvard Lampoon
Dutch Treat Club (1975-88)
Endorsement of Mattel Intellivision
Funeral: Andy Warhol (1987)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (4-Sep-2004) Himself
Just Visiting (06-Apr-2001)
Ed TV (26-Mar-1999)
The Last Days of Disco (29-May-1998)
Good Will Hunting (5-Dec-1997)
When We Were Kings (25-Oct-1996) Himself
Nixon (20-Dec-1995)
Just Cause (17-Feb-1995)
Baseball (18-Sep-1994) Himself [VOICE]
Little Man Tate (6-Sep-1991)
L.A. Story (8-Feb-1991)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (21-Dec-1990)
The Civil War (23-Sep-1990) [VOICE]
A Fool and His Money (1989)
Volunteers (16-Aug-1985)
Reds (3-Dec-1981)
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (Dec-1977)
Rio Lobo (17-Dec-1970)
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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