Jamie Tarses TV producer
“Ms. Tarses seemed to speak the language of that coveted audience. She had what is known in TV programming parlance as ‘taste’.”
From This is True for 7 February 2021
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TV, Film, and Music producers, directors, actors. Writers are under writing, and magicians, dancers, and musicians are under art.
Michael Apted Director
A TV and film director, Apted got the job of a lifetime.
From This is True for 10 January 2021
Dena Dietrich Natural actress
An actress, Dietrich hit the big time with a tiny role, playing ‘Mother Nature’.
From This is True for 22 November 2020
Carol Arthur Actress
An actress, Arthur had moderate success …until she met Mel Brooks.
From This is True for 1 November 2020
Ronnie and Donnie Galyon Record-setters
At 68 years, 250 days old, they firmly set the record for the oldest conjoined twins ever.
From This is True for 5 July 2020
Fred Silverman Media titan
“His impact on television was incalculable.”
From This is True for 2 February 2020
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