Alfred R. Kelman
Encyclopedia
Alfred R. Kelman is an American film
and television
documentary
producer
and director
best known for the CBS
series "The Body Human" and the 1984 television version of "A Christmas Carol" starring George C. Scott
.
His career began in the early days of live television
(1962) at the local level as a director for the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, WBZ-TV Boston. Subsequently, an Oscar nominee (1966) for his documentary film THE FACE OF GENIUS, an autobiographical study of America’s famed playwright, Eugene O’Neill. It marked the first time in the history of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences that a film originally produced for television was recognized by the Academy as a nominee for Best Documentary Feature.
A mass communications graduate scholar (1959) studying public opinion at Boston University
under the aegis of WGBH, a Senior Research Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies, he also served as a principal of MEDCOM (1968), a publicly traded company and pioneer of the learning industry in the dissemination of medical knowledge to physicians and the public. His groundbreaking CBS
documentary series, THE BODY HUMAN (1977), a cinematic exploration of the relationship between biochemistry, medicine and human behavior, opened the door to LIFELINE, the first non-fiction series, e.g., the practice of medicine, ever carried in prime time by the NBC television network.
Kelman is the unprecedented 3-time winner of the Directors Guild of America
Award for Outstanding Documentary Feature and 7-time Emmy winner for “Lifeline” and “The Body Human.” One of the few documentary film makers who moved from non-fiction to a 25 year career (1980-2005) as a Producer of movies and mini series for television inclusive of the 3 American commercial networks ABC
, CBS
,NBC
, as well as the pay cable channel HBO. Whether in fiction or non-fiction his work has been characterized by the ever-elusive search for truthful depictions of history and/or reality.
A first generation American born in the Bronx, New York
and raised in Boston
, Massachusetts
, he is the son of Lawrence and Laura Kelman, Jewish immigrants from Poland. As a teenager in the late 1940s Kelman was a child of the live television era. Hollywood, in the early 50’s as a filmmaking center found its audience for movies tilting drastically in the direction of live television drama. Influenced by the thoughts of comedian Jackie Gleason in a “Look” magazine article describing the excitement of live television not only as entertainer but the necessity for television directors to emulate the instinctive skills akin to the performance of an athlete. Kelman, though he played high school and college baseball, knowing he did not have the makings of a major leaguer, was drawn to a career in live television.
Attending Boston University
(1954–1958) he served as Production Manager of the college radio station WBUR, a breeding ground for future broadcasters and a professional teaching staff in the tradition of famed radio documentary writer and dramatist Norman Corwin. Kelman graduating cum laude was awarded a graduate scholarship to study Communications Research for an M.S. degree while plying his trade at all levels of production in the early days of live black and white television under the guidance of the professionals operating the pioneer educational station WGBH
. Kelman’s Master’s thesis, The Role Of Television in the 1958 Massachusetts Gubernatorial Campaign, was described by George D. Blackwood, PhD, (Boston University Professor of Political Science & Chairman, Citizenship Project), as an innovative contribution to the understanding of the power of this new media to influence public opinion. Kelman continued his study of popular culture and mass communications (1960–1962), holding appointments as a Senior Research Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies leading to Assistant Professor, Oregon State University serving as Research Director under Title VII of the National Defense Education Act for The Study of New Media authenticating or repudiating the feasibility of state-wide televised instruction.
Returning to Boston (1962) Kelman was hired by WBZ-TV Boston (one of five flagship stations comprising the historic Westinghouse Broadcasting Company soon to be identified as Group W - KDKA Pittsburgh, KQED San Francisco, KYW, Philadelphia, WJZ Baltimore) as a live television producer-director working what was known at the time (pre video tape), a 8 x 6 live shift, i.e., 8 hour day, 6 days a week @ $95.
Following the Selma to Montgomery Alabama riots (1965) Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr (a graduate of Boston University School of Theology) chose Boston for his next rallying cry for racial freedom. In a march stretching over 20 miles through the streets of Greater Boston, crowds estimated in the hundreds of thousand, blacks and whites hand in hand, in racial harmony. Kelman, assigned to produce documentary coverage of this seminal event was granted a private interview with Dr King that formed the heart of the documentary Martin Luther King in Boston.
That year as a public affair TV Producer-Director, Kelman formed a career alliance with a young teaching physician from Harvard Medical School, Robert E. Fuisz, M.D. Together, they broke new ground providing medical information to the public with an early morning series, Medical Knowledge For Man, 60 half hours, distributed across the spectrum of Group W stations.
Subsequently appointed Director of Public Affairs for Group W Boston, Kelman was selected to represent the broadcast conglomerate on an international exchange program between The Canadian Broadcasting Company, Channel 7 Australia and the BBC's commercial counterpart, Redifussion London. There he was assigned to its historic weekly documentary series “This Week.”
While in London, Kelman received word that he had been nominated for the Academy Award for Outstanding Feature Documentary for his production at WBZ-TV Boston (1965), The Face of Genius, the life of Eugene O'Neill narrated by Jason Robards. “Variety” (1966) dubbed it “…a masterful job of welding script, film, stills and music into a first-rate production.”
Upon his return to the United States, Kelman and News Director Edward Fouhy spearheaded Group W’s coverage of the 1966 national presidential election between(Democratic candidate Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater. In association with future Political Scientist Samuel Popkin, then a PhD candidate at the MIT Center for International Studies and the U.S. computer company Control Data Corporation described in the 1960s as building “…the fastest computers in the world by far,” WBZ-TV election coverage was recognized by the industry as a pioneer broadcaster in the earliest use of percentile returns to project winning candidates for public office. Group W then assigned Kelman to work in association with The Brookings Institution and The Operation Government Committee of the US Congress producing and directing the definitive behind the scenes statement to date on the nature of government operations, 30 half hours, Congress, the Presidency and the Courts.
Leaving the broadcast arena for the burgeoning knowledge industry in 1968 Kelman was a principal in a publicly held corporation (Medcom, Inc.) specializing in medical education and allied health personnel training. Kelman’s motivational documentaries designed to close the knowledge gap between the practicing physician and the patient remain in circulation: The Hyperactive Child, The Case For Population Control, Ashes to Ashes, Drug of Choice, 3 Times A Day, Aldosterone: Story Of A Hormone, The Transplanters & Christian Barnard, Schizophrenia. Kelman remained a member of the corporate Board and a key management executive until the sale of Medcom in 1983 to a Fortune 500 company.
In 1976 Kelman partnered with Thomas W Moore, then President of Tomorrow Entertainment, and former President for 12 years during the golden age of ABC-TV, (1958–1970), along with his partner of many years, Robert E. Fuisz, M.D., to form The Tomorrow Entertainment/Medcom Co. Thus was executed, with the blessing of Richard Salant, President of CBS News, the first prime time non-fiction dramatic information series under the aegis of CBS Entertainment The Body Human.
Concurrently in 1979, out of experiences from shooting the annual seven-year non-fiction CBS Special The Body Human, grew the beginning of prime time reality television for NBC, Lifeline, 13 hours of real life medical drama..
In 1982 Kelman and Fuisz partnered with NBC Exec William F Storke, forming Entertainment Partners and 7 years on in association with Bernard Sofronski CBS Exec in charge of special drama, there followed a 20-year stretch of movies and mini-series for television (see Filmography).
In 1992/93 Kelman was a direct participant in an unprecedented media feeding frenzy over the shooting by teenager Amy Fisher of the wife of her adulterous lover. The judge dubbed her “Lethal Lolita” setting bail at $2,000,000. Unable to raise bail, a series of legal entanglements ensued over whether her defense attorney, Eric Naiburg, had the right to sell her story in exchange for bail. Advised by counsel that anyone held on bail had a constitutional right to bail, Kelman and Producer Philip Levitan of Nashville, Tennessee, became personal guarantors resulting in the NBC movie of the week, Amy Fisher: My Story, the only time in the history of television that all 3 networks, ABC, CBS, NBC aired a motion picture docudrama on the same subject within weeks of one another. The full story of Amy Fisher is excellently depicted as a sociological work by Sheila Weller, author “Amy Fisher: My Story.”
Retrospectively, a career covering over 50 years, the gross budget for Kelman’s productions, i.e., money spent above and below the line put on the screen, is estimated in the high range of 8 figures.
During the last few years (2003–2009) Kelman was preoccupied serving in the public sector. A resident of Sagaponack, N.Y., a 350 year old hamlet within the municipal jurisdiction of Southampton, N.Y at the eastern end of Long Island, that found itself under intense pressure from neighboring homeowners to split off a 3 mile stretch of ocean front to form a privately incorporated village. Kelman, a principal organizer of the successful opposition was ultimately elected a Trustee under the laws of the State of New York (2005) and dubbed a founding father of the Incorporated Village of Sagaponack, the historic boundaries of the hamlet remaining intact.
Currently he is at work on a screenplay trilogy based upon autobiographical experiences, “Hayfever, “ “At Water’s Edge, “ and “Swan’s Way.”
Alfred R Kelman was married in 1970 to Janice Marguerite Legg of London, England. Their son, Nic Kelman, is a novelist and screenwriter.
M.S. Boston University, Communications Research (1959)
Collection for The Study of New Media, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming (1979)
Distinguished Alumni Award, School of Public Communication, Boston University (1983)
Royal Charity Premiere, A Christmas Carol, The Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square, London, in the gracious presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth (1984)
Proclamation of Appreciation, Village of Sagaponack, N.Y. (2009)
The Face of Genius (1966)
Directors Guild of America, Outstanding Directorial Achievement
The Body Human: The Magic Sense (1979)
The Body Human: The Body Beautiful (1982)
The Body Human: The Journey Within (1984)
Emmy Award
The Body Human, CBS, Outstanding Documentary Achievement
The Miracle Months (1977)
The Magic Sense (1979)
The Body Beautiful (1980)
The Bionic Breakthrough (1981)
The Loving Process (1983)
The Living Code (1983)
The Journey Within (1984)
Special Emmy Award
Lifeline NBC (1979)
George Foster Peabody Award
The Body Human: The Red River CBS (1978)
Lifeline NBC 13 episodes (1978–79)
The Body Human: CBS
The Miracle Months (1977)
The Vital Connection (1978)
The Red River (1978)
The Magic Sense (1979)
The Body Beautiful (1980)
The Facts for Boys (1980
The Facts for Girls (1980)
The Sexes (1979)
The Sexes II (1980)
Becoming A Woman (1981)
Becoming A Man (1981)
The Bionic Breakthrough (1981)
The Loving Process (1981)
The Living Code 1983
The Journey Within 1984
A Christmas Carol (1984 CBS) George C Scott, Directed by Clive Donner, adapted from the original Charles Dickens story by Broadway Playwright Roger O Hirson (“Pippen”)
The Last Days of Patton (1986 CBS) with George C. Scott, Directed by Delbert Mann (Academy Award “Marty”)
The Ted Kennedy, Jr. Story (1986 NBC) with Craig T. Nelson and Susan Blakely, Directed by Delbert Mann
A Special Friendship (1987 CBS) with Tracy Pollan and Akosua Busia, Directed by Fielder Cook (“A Big Hand For The Little Lady”1987 1)
Napoleon & Josephine: A Love Story (1987 ABC) six-hour mini series with
Armand Assante and Jacqueline Bisset, Directed by Richard Heffron
The Plot To Kill Hitler (1990 CBS) with Brad Davis Madolyn Smith Ian Richardson, Directed by Lawrence Schiller (“Peter The Great”) Director of Photography Freddy Francis (3 time Academy Award winner)
Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story (1993 CBS) with Ann Jillian, Directed by Jerry London (“Shogun” “Chiefs”)
Amy Fisher: My Story (1993 NBC) with Noelle Parker Ed Marinaro, Directed by Bradford May
Film
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and television
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documentary
Documentary
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producer
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and director
Television director
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best known for the CBS
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series "The Body Human" and the 1984 television version of "A Christmas Carol" starring George C. Scott
George C. Scott
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.
His career began in the early days of live television
Television
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(1962) at the local level as a director for the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, WBZ-TV Boston. Subsequently, an Oscar nominee (1966) for his documentary film THE FACE OF GENIUS, an autobiographical study of America’s famed playwright, Eugene O’Neill. It marked the first time in the history of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences that a film originally produced for television was recognized by the Academy as a nominee for Best Documentary Feature.
A mass communications graduate scholar (1959) studying public opinion at Boston University
Boston University
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under the aegis of WGBH, a Senior Research Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies, he also served as a principal of MEDCOM (1968), a publicly traded company and pioneer of the learning industry in the dissemination of medical knowledge to physicians and the public. His groundbreaking CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
documentary series, THE BODY HUMAN (1977), a cinematic exploration of the relationship between biochemistry, medicine and human behavior, opened the door to LIFELINE, the first non-fiction series, e.g., the practice of medicine, ever carried in prime time by the NBC television network.
Kelman is the unprecedented 3-time winner of the Directors Guild of America
Directors Guild of America
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Award for Outstanding Documentary Feature and 7-time Emmy winner for “Lifeline” and “The Body Human.” One of the few documentary film makers who moved from non-fiction to a 25 year career (1980-2005) as a Producer of movies and mini series for television inclusive of the 3 American commercial networks ABC
ABC
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, CBS
CBS
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,NBC
NBC
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, as well as the pay cable channel HBO. Whether in fiction or non-fiction his work has been characterized by the ever-elusive search for truthful depictions of history and/or reality.
Biography
Kelman's earliest success was in producing and directing The Face of Genius, the life of Nobel prize winning playwright Eugene O’Neill, nominated for an Academy Award in 1966. It marked the first time in Oscar history that a film originally produced for television was recognized by the Academy as a nominee for Best Documentary Feature.A first generation American born in the Bronx, New York
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and raised in Boston
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, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
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, he is the son of Lawrence and Laura Kelman, Jewish immigrants from Poland. As a teenager in the late 1940s Kelman was a child of the live television era. Hollywood, in the early 50’s as a filmmaking center found its audience for movies tilting drastically in the direction of live television drama. Influenced by the thoughts of comedian Jackie Gleason in a “Look” magazine article describing the excitement of live television not only as entertainer but the necessity for television directors to emulate the instinctive skills akin to the performance of an athlete. Kelman, though he played high school and college baseball, knowing he did not have the makings of a major leaguer, was drawn to a career in live television.
Attending Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
(1954–1958) he served as Production Manager of the college radio station WBUR, a breeding ground for future broadcasters and a professional teaching staff in the tradition of famed radio documentary writer and dramatist Norman Corwin. Kelman graduating cum laude was awarded a graduate scholarship to study Communications Research for an M.S. degree while plying his trade at all levels of production in the early days of live black and white television under the guidance of the professionals operating the pioneer educational station WGBH
WGBH
WGBH-TV, channel 2, is a non-commercial educational public television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WGBH-TV is a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service , and produces more than two-thirds of PBS's national prime time television programming...
. Kelman’s Master’s thesis, The Role Of Television in the 1958 Massachusetts Gubernatorial Campaign, was described by George D. Blackwood, PhD, (Boston University Professor of Political Science & Chairman, Citizenship Project), as an innovative contribution to the understanding of the power of this new media to influence public opinion. Kelman continued his study of popular culture and mass communications (1960–1962), holding appointments as a Senior Research Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies leading to Assistant Professor, Oregon State University serving as Research Director under Title VII of the National Defense Education Act for The Study of New Media authenticating or repudiating the feasibility of state-wide televised instruction.
Returning to Boston (1962) Kelman was hired by WBZ-TV Boston (one of five flagship stations comprising the historic Westinghouse Broadcasting Company soon to be identified as Group W - KDKA Pittsburgh, KQED San Francisco, KYW, Philadelphia, WJZ Baltimore) as a live television producer-director working what was known at the time (pre video tape), a 8 x 6 live shift, i.e., 8 hour day, 6 days a week @ $95.
Following the Selma to Montgomery Alabama riots (1965) Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr (a graduate of Boston University School of Theology) chose Boston for his next rallying cry for racial freedom. In a march stretching over 20 miles through the streets of Greater Boston, crowds estimated in the hundreds of thousand, blacks and whites hand in hand, in racial harmony. Kelman, assigned to produce documentary coverage of this seminal event was granted a private interview with Dr King that formed the heart of the documentary Martin Luther King in Boston.
That year as a public affair TV Producer-Director, Kelman formed a career alliance with a young teaching physician from Harvard Medical School, Robert E. Fuisz, M.D. Together, they broke new ground providing medical information to the public with an early morning series, Medical Knowledge For Man, 60 half hours, distributed across the spectrum of Group W stations.
Subsequently appointed Director of Public Affairs for Group W Boston, Kelman was selected to represent the broadcast conglomerate on an international exchange program between The Canadian Broadcasting Company, Channel 7 Australia and the BBC's commercial counterpart, Redifussion London. There he was assigned to its historic weekly documentary series “This Week.”
While in London, Kelman received word that he had been nominated for the Academy Award for Outstanding Feature Documentary for his production at WBZ-TV Boston (1965), The Face of Genius, the life of Eugene O'Neill narrated by Jason Robards. “Variety” (1966) dubbed it “…a masterful job of welding script, film, stills and music into a first-rate production.”
Upon his return to the United States, Kelman and News Director Edward Fouhy spearheaded Group W’s coverage of the 1966 national presidential election between(Democratic candidate Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater. In association with future Political Scientist Samuel Popkin, then a PhD candidate at the MIT Center for International Studies and the U.S. computer company Control Data Corporation described in the 1960s as building “…the fastest computers in the world by far,” WBZ-TV election coverage was recognized by the industry as a pioneer broadcaster in the earliest use of percentile returns to project winning candidates for public office. Group W then assigned Kelman to work in association with The Brookings Institution and The Operation Government Committee of the US Congress producing and directing the definitive behind the scenes statement to date on the nature of government operations, 30 half hours, Congress, the Presidency and the Courts.
Leaving the broadcast arena for the burgeoning knowledge industry in 1968 Kelman was a principal in a publicly held corporation (Medcom, Inc.) specializing in medical education and allied health personnel training. Kelman’s motivational documentaries designed to close the knowledge gap between the practicing physician and the patient remain in circulation: The Hyperactive Child, The Case For Population Control, Ashes to Ashes, Drug of Choice, 3 Times A Day, Aldosterone: Story Of A Hormone, The Transplanters & Christian Barnard, Schizophrenia. Kelman remained a member of the corporate Board and a key management executive until the sale of Medcom in 1983 to a Fortune 500 company.
In 1976 Kelman partnered with Thomas W Moore, then President of Tomorrow Entertainment, and former President for 12 years during the golden age of ABC-TV, (1958–1970), along with his partner of many years, Robert E. Fuisz, M.D., to form The Tomorrow Entertainment/Medcom Co. Thus was executed, with the blessing of Richard Salant, President of CBS News, the first prime time non-fiction dramatic information series under the aegis of CBS Entertainment The Body Human.
Concurrently in 1979, out of experiences from shooting the annual seven-year non-fiction CBS Special The Body Human, grew the beginning of prime time reality television for NBC, Lifeline, 13 hours of real life medical drama..
In 1982 Kelman and Fuisz partnered with NBC Exec William F Storke, forming Entertainment Partners and 7 years on in association with Bernard Sofronski CBS Exec in charge of special drama, there followed a 20-year stretch of movies and mini-series for television (see Filmography).
In 1992/93 Kelman was a direct participant in an unprecedented media feeding frenzy over the shooting by teenager Amy Fisher of the wife of her adulterous lover. The judge dubbed her “Lethal Lolita” setting bail at $2,000,000. Unable to raise bail, a series of legal entanglements ensued over whether her defense attorney, Eric Naiburg, had the right to sell her story in exchange for bail. Advised by counsel that anyone held on bail had a constitutional right to bail, Kelman and Producer Philip Levitan of Nashville, Tennessee, became personal guarantors resulting in the NBC movie of the week, Amy Fisher: My Story, the only time in the history of television that all 3 networks, ABC, CBS, NBC aired a motion picture docudrama on the same subject within weeks of one another. The full story of Amy Fisher is excellently depicted as a sociological work by Sheila Weller, author “Amy Fisher: My Story.”
Retrospectively, a career covering over 50 years, the gross budget for Kelman’s productions, i.e., money spent above and below the line put on the screen, is estimated in the high range of 8 figures.
During the last few years (2003–2009) Kelman was preoccupied serving in the public sector. A resident of Sagaponack, N.Y., a 350 year old hamlet within the municipal jurisdiction of Southampton, N.Y at the eastern end of Long Island, that found itself under intense pressure from neighboring homeowners to split off a 3 mile stretch of ocean front to form a privately incorporated village. Kelman, a principal organizer of the successful opposition was ultimately elected a Trustee under the laws of the State of New York (2005) and dubbed a founding father of the Incorporated Village of Sagaponack, the historic boundaries of the hamlet remaining intact.
Currently he is at work on a screenplay trilogy based upon autobiographical experiences, “Hayfever, “ “At Water’s Edge, “ and “Swan’s Way.”
Alfred R Kelman was married in 1970 to Janice Marguerite Legg of London, England. Their son, Nic Kelman, is a novelist and screenwriter.
Honors
B.S. Boston University, cum laude.WGBH Graduate Scholarship (1958)M.S. Boston University, Communications Research (1959)
Collection for The Study of New Media, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming (1979)
Distinguished Alumni Award, School of Public Communication, Boston University (1983)
Royal Charity Premiere, A Christmas Carol, The Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square, London, in the gracious presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth (1984)
Proclamation of Appreciation, Village of Sagaponack, N.Y. (2009)
Awards
Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary FeatureThe Face of Genius (1966)
Directors Guild of America, Outstanding Directorial Achievement
The Body Human: The Magic Sense (1979)
The Body Human: The Body Beautiful (1982)
The Body Human: The Journey Within (1984)
Emmy Award
The Body Human, CBS, Outstanding Documentary Achievement
The Miracle Months (1977)
The Magic Sense (1979)
The Body Beautiful (1980)
The Bionic Breakthrough (1981)
The Loving Process (1983)
The Living Code (1983)
The Journey Within (1984)
Special Emmy Award
Lifeline NBC (1979)
George Foster Peabody Award
The Body Human: The Red River CBS (1978)
Producer and Director filmography
The Face of Genius (1965) Group WLifeline NBC 13 episodes (1978–79)
The Body Human: CBS
The Miracle Months (1977)
The Vital Connection (1978)
The Red River (1978)
The Magic Sense (1979)
The Body Beautiful (1980)
The Facts for Boys (1980
The Facts for Girls (1980)
The Sexes (1979)
The Sexes II (1980)
Becoming A Woman (1981)
Becoming A Man (1981)
The Bionic Breakthrough (1981)
The Loving Process (1981)
The Living Code 1983
The Journey Within 1984
Producer filmography
To Catch A King (1984 HBO) Robert Wagner and Teri Garr, Directed by Clive Donner (“What’s New Pussycat”)A Christmas Carol (1984 CBS) George C Scott, Directed by Clive Donner, adapted from the original Charles Dickens story by Broadway Playwright Roger O Hirson (“Pippen”)
The Last Days of Patton (1986 CBS) with George C. Scott, Directed by Delbert Mann (Academy Award “Marty”)
The Ted Kennedy, Jr. Story (1986 NBC) with Craig T. Nelson and Susan Blakely, Directed by Delbert Mann
A Special Friendship (1987 CBS) with Tracy Pollan and Akosua Busia, Directed by Fielder Cook (“A Big Hand For The Little Lady”1987 1)
Napoleon & Josephine: A Love Story (1987 ABC) six-hour mini series with
Armand Assante and Jacqueline Bisset, Directed by Richard Heffron
The Plot To Kill Hitler (1990 CBS) with Brad Davis Madolyn Smith Ian Richardson, Directed by Lawrence Schiller (“Peter The Great”) Director of Photography Freddy Francis (3 time Academy Award winner)
Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story (1993 CBS) with Ann Jillian, Directed by Jerry London (“Shogun” “Chiefs”)
Amy Fisher: My Story (1993 NBC) with Noelle Parker Ed Marinaro, Directed by Bradford May