Fred Silverman Media titan
“His impact on television was incalculable.”
From This is True for 2 February 2020
entertainment
TV, Film, and Music producers, directors, actors. Writers are under writing, and magicians, dancers, and musicians are under art.
Sonny Grosso Good cop
Grosso was one of the real detectives behind ‘The French Connection’, and went on to work in TV and films.
From This is True for 26 January 2020
Lee Mendelson TV producer
Born and raised on the San Francisco peninsula, Mendelson served in the U.S. Air Force and worked as a vegetable grower before getting a job at a San Francisco TV station in 1961. His job: produce public service announcements. But he quit two years later because he had an idea to make a made-for-TV documentary … Read more
From This is True for 29 December 2019
Frank Henson Stuntman
But 1983’s Return of the Jedi “is without doubt the biggest movie that I worked on,” he said.
From This is True for 28 April 2019
Bob Einstein Comic actor
Einstein vowed never to work in comedy, until he got an inside look at what the business was really like.
From This is True for 6 January 2019
Bernard Bragg Actor
As a child, Bragg had no idea he was deaf.
From This is True for 4 November 2018
Mai Tai Sing Stereotype buster
She fought “racist preconceptions of what Asian Americans were about and what they could accomplish.”
From This is True for 15 July 2018
Martin Bregman Film producer
He switched careers to help an actor he discovered: Al Pachino.
From This is True for 17 June 2018
Paul Junger Witt TV producer
Witt rose to be a highly regarded TV and film director, and then producer.
From This is True for 29 April 2018
Benjamin Melniker Film producer
“‘Legendary’ is the only word capable of describing the man.”
From This is True for 4 March 2018