Still of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley in Best of Enemies (2015)
				
				
						 Caption: Still of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley in Best of Enemies (2015)
																																				
						Writer, Actor
						Born: October 3, 1925
						Star sign: Libra
						Height: 5' 11½" (1.82 m)
						Known for: Caligula (1979), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), Needlework Pictures Presents Francesco Vezzoli in Gore Vidal's 'Caligula' (2005), The Best Man (1964)
						Source: IMDB
						Gore Vidal was born Eugene Louis Vidal in 1925 in West Point, New York, to Nina (Gore) and West Point aeronautics instructor and aviation pioneer Eugene Luther Vidal. The Vidals endured a rocky marriage divorcing ten years after Gore's birth. Young Gore spent much of his childhood with his blind grandfather, Senator T.P. Gore of Oklahoma. Vidal ...