The
Archive of American Television is a division of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that films interviews with notable people from all aspects of the
televisionTelevision is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...
industry.
The archive's subjects include all professions within the television industry. Examples include: actors
Alan AldaAlan Alda is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H...
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Ossie DavisOssie Davis was an American film actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist.-Early years:Davis was born Raiford Chatman Davis in Cogdell, Clinch County, Georgia....
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Michael J. FoxMichael J. Fox is a Canadian actor, author and voice-over artist. His roles have included Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy ; Alex P...
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James GarnerJames Garner is an American film and television actor.He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades...
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Mary Tyler MooreMary Tyler Moore is an American actress, primarily known for her roles in television sitcoms.Moore is best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show , in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and for her earlier role as Dick...
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William ShatnerWilliam Alan Shatner is a Canadian actor and novelist. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk, captain of the starship USS Enterprise, in the television series Star Trek from 1966 to 1969, Star Trek: The Animated Series and in seven of the...
, and
Dick Van DykeRichard Wayne “Dick” Van Dyke is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer with a career spanning six decades...
; producers
Norman LearNorman Milton Lear is an American television writer and producer who produced such '70s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times and Maude.-Early life:...
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Carl ReinerCarl Reiner is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards during his career.-Early life:...
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Steven BochcoSteven Ronald Bochco is an American television producer and writer. He has developed a number of popular television hits including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue.-Early life:...
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Phil RosenthalPhil Rosenthal has been media columnist for the Chicago Tribune since the spring of 2005. He had previously worked for the Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Daily News, The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, and the News Sun of Waukegan, Illinois.Rosenthal was born in Chicago and grew up in Lake...
, Sherwood Schwartz, Fred Rogers and
Dick WolfRichard Anthony Wolf , usually billed as simply Dick Wolf, is an American Emmy Award-winning producer, specializing in crime dramas such as Miami Vice and the Law & Order franchise.-Early life:...
; newscasters
Walter CronkiteWalter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years . During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll...
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Ed BradleyEdward Rudolph Bradley, Jr. was an American journalist, best known for twenty-six years of award-winning work on the CBS News television magazine 60 Minutes...
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Bob SchiefferBob Lloyd Schieffer is an American television journalist who has been with CBS News since 1969, serving 23 years as anchor on the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News from 1973 to 1996; chief Washington correspondent since 1982, moderator of the Sunday public affairs show Face the Nation since...
and
David BrinkleyDavid McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career spanning from 1951 to 1997....
; executives
Fred SilvermanFred Silverman is an American television executive and producer. He worked as an executive at the CBS, ABC and NBC networks, and was responsible for bringing to television such programs as the series Scooby-Doo , All in the Family , The Waltons , and Charlie's Angels , as well as the...
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Sumner RedstoneSumner Murray Redstone is majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain...
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Leslie MoonvesLeslie Moonves is President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation.Moonves served as co-president and co-chief operating officer of Viacom, Inc., the predecessor to CBS Corporation, from 2004 until the company split on December 31, 2005...
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Robert JohnsonRobert L. "Bob" Johnson is an American businessman and founder of Black Entertainment Television , and is also its former chairman and chief executive officer. Johnson is currently chairman and founder of RLJ Development and majority-owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, a National Basketball...
, Kay Koplovitz and
Ted TurnerRobert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television...
; costume designers
Bob MackieRobert Gordon Mackie is an American fashion designer, best known for his costuming for entertainment icons such as Cher, Diana Ross, Tina Turner, and Mitzi Gaynor...
and
Nolan MillerNolan Miller is a television costume designer best known for his work on the long-running 1980s series Dynasty, its spin-off series The Colbys and the 1991 miniseries Dynasty: The Reunion. He has collaborated on many projects with television producers Aaron Spelling and Douglas S...
; choreographers Tony Charmoli and
Cyd CharisseCyd Charisse was an American actress and dancer.After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s...
; writers
Roy HugginsRoy Huggins was a novelist and an influential writer/creator and producer of character-driven US television series, including Maverick, The Fugitive, and The Rockford Files....
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Tad MoselTad Mosel was an American playwright and one of the leading dramatists of hour-long teleplay genre for live television during the 1950s. He received the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play All the Way Home....
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Sidney SheldonSidney Sheldon was an American writer. His TV works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show , I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart , but it was not until after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling novels such as Master of the Game , The Other Side of Midnight...
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Abby MannAbby Mann was an American film writer and producer.Born as Abraham Goodman in Philadelphia, he grew up in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was best known for his work on controversial subjects and social drama. His most famous work is the drama Judgment at Nuremberg, which was initially a...
and
Ann MarcusAnn Marcus ia an American television writer, producer and playwright. She graduated from Western College, worked for the New York Daily News and Life Magazine where she worked with famed photographers such as Alfred Eisenstadt....
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200+ of the 500+ videos can be watched free on
EmmyTVLegends.org.
History
Motivated by
Steven SpielbergSteven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. In a career of over four decades, Spielberg's films have touched on many themes and genres. Spielberg's early sci-fi and adventure films, sometimes centering on children, were seen as an archetype of modern...
’s Survivors of the
Shoah FoundationShoah foundations are organizations that are formed to further the remembrance of the Holocaust of World War II. There are currently two major foundations that are internationally active.-Major Shoah Foundations:...
, which has videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors, Dean Valentine (former Disney Television and UPN president) was inspired to create a similar project for television. Valentine developed and presented a proposal to the TV Academy, under then-president Richard H. Frank and Academy Foundation Chairman Thomas W. Sarnoff.
NBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...
executive
Grant TinkerGrant Almerin Tinker is the former chairman and CEO of NBC from 1981 to 1986, co-founder of MTM Enterprises, and television producer. Tinker is the former husband of television actress Mary Tyler Moore...
, Award-winning producer
David L. WolperDavid Lloyd Wolper is an American television and film producer, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, North & South, L.A. Confidential, and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory...
are the Archive's founding co-chairs.
Beginning in early 1996, the Archive of American Television completed its first six interviews as part of its pilot stage. The initial six interviews were with
Leonard GoldensonLeonard H. Goldenson was President of the U.S. television and radio broadcaster ABC. He orchestrated the merger of his United Paramount Theatres with ABC in 1953 Leonard H. Goldenson (December 7 1905 – December 27 1999) was President of the U.S. television and radio broadcaster ABC. He...
, founder of ABC, Dick Smith, television’s first make-up artist; Elma Farnsworth, widow and lab assistant to television inventor
Philo FarnsworthPhilo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor. He is best known for inventing the first fully electronic television system, including the first working electronic image pickup device , and for being the first to demonstrate fully electronic television to the public.In his later life, Farnsworth...
; Ethel Winant, casting executive; Sheldon Leonard, show creator and director; and comedian
Milton BerleMilton Berle was an Emmy-winning American comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater , he was the first major star of US television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr...
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The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation, a non-profit organization, officially launched the Archive of American Television in 1997.
Archive success
Thousands of hours of historic interviews have been completed with over 500 TV legends.
Full-length video interviews currently onlineinclude actors
Alan AldaAlan Alda is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H...
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Richard CrennaRichard Donald Crenna was an American film, television and radio actor. He starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, Rambo , Hot Shots! Part Deux, and The Flamingo Kid...
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Barbara EdenBarbara Eden is an American film and television actress and singer who is best known for her starring role in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.-Early years:...
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Jonathan WintersJonathan Harshman Winters III is an American comedian and actor.-Early life:Winters was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, the son of Alice Kilgore , a radio personality, and Jonathan Harshman Winters II, an investment broker. He is a descendant of Valentine Winters, founder of the Winters National Bank in...
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Ossie DavisOssie Davis was an American film actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist.-Early years:Davis was born Raiford Chatman Davis in Cogdell, Clinch County, Georgia....
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Michael J. FoxMichael J. Fox is a Canadian actor, author and voice-over artist. His roles have included Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy ; Alex P...
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Dick Van DykeRichard Wayne “Dick” Van Dyke is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer with a career spanning six decades...
, Dick Clark,
Florence HendersonFlorence Agnes Henderson is an American actress and singer, best known for playing the role of Carol Brady in the television program The Brady Bunch, which ran from 1969 to 1974.-Early life:...
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Andy GriffithAndy Samuel Griffith is an American actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer....
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Bob NewhartGeorge Robert "Bob" Newhart is an American stand-up comedian and actor who is best known for playing psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the 1980s sitcom Newhart.Newhart also appeared in film roles such as Major Major in...
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Julia ChildJulia Child was an American chef, author and television personality. She introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many cookbooks and television programs, notably The French Chef which premiered in 1963...
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William ShatnerWilliam Alan Shatner is a Canadian actor and novelist. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk, captain of the starship USS Enterprise, in the television series Star Trek from 1966 to 1969, Star Trek: The Animated Series and in seven of the...
,
Carl ReinerCarl Reiner is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards during his career.-Early life:...
, writer and producers
Norman LearNorman Milton Lear is an American television writer and producer who produced such '70s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times and Maude.-Early life:...
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Sherwood SchwartzSherwood Charles Schwartz is an American television producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, and created the television series Gilligan's Island on CBS and The Brady Bunch on ABC...
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Steven BochcoSteven Ronald Bochco is an American television producer and writer. He has developed a number of popular television hits including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue.-Early life:...
, and
Dick WolfRichard Anthony Wolf , usually billed as simply Dick Wolf, is an American Emmy Award-winning producer, specializing in crime dramas such as Miami Vice and the Law & Order franchise.-Early life:...
, news legends
Walter CronkiteWalter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years . During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll...
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Ed BradleyEdward Rudolph Bradley, Jr. was an American journalist, best known for twenty-six years of award-winning work on the CBS News television magazine 60 Minutes...
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Robert MacNeilRobert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, OC, known sometimes as Robin MacNeil, is currently a novelist and formerly was a television news anchor and journalist who had paired with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975.-Early life:MacNeil was born in Montreal, the son of Margaret Virginia...
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Jim McKayJames Kenneth McManus , better known by his professional name of Jim McKay, was an American television sports journalist....
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Mike WallaceMyron Leon "Mike" Wallace is an American journalist. Wallace has been a correspondent for CBS' 60 Minutes since its debut in 1968...
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David BrinkleyDavid McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career spanning from 1951 to 1997....
, and Executives
Fred SilvermanFred Silverman is an American television executive and producer. He worked as an executive at the CBS, ABC and NBC networks, and was responsible for bringing to television such programs as the series Scooby-Doo , All in the Family , The Waltons , and Charlie's Angels , as well as the...
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Leonard GoldensonLeonard H. Goldenson was President of the U.S. television and radio broadcaster ABC. He orchestrated the merger of his United Paramount Theatres with ABC in 1953 Leonard H. Goldenson (December 7 1905 – December 27 1999) was President of the U.S. television and radio broadcaster ABC. He...
and
Ted TurnerRobert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television...
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Sonyis a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding ¥ 7.730.0 trillion, or $78.88 billion U.S. . Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game...
Pictures Television President, Steve Mosko, TV Foundation Executive Director Terri Clark, and Archive Director Karen Herman continue to guide the day to day operations of the Archive. Archive staff, professors, scholars and journalists from around the country volunteer their time to conduct these interviews. The Foundation employs a small staff who prepare all of the research and questions in advance. Local video crews photograph each interview.
The goal
The Archive of American Television has posted over 200 videotaped interviews online.
It is their ultimate goal to be the world’s largest and most advanced oral history collection on the
history of televisionThe history of television is both complex and far-reaching, involving the work of many inventors and engineers in several countries over many decades. Initially, work proceeded along two different but overlapping lines of development: those designs employing both mechanical and electronic...
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Interviewees available online
A regularly updated list of interviews with links can be found at http://tvinterviewsarchive.blogspot.com
- Alan Alda, actor/producer/director
- Steve Allen, host/performer
- Army Archerd, journalist/host
- James Arness, actor
- Beatrice Arthur, actress
- Edward Asner, actor
- Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner, religious broadcaster
- Bob Banner, producer/director
- Joseph Barbera, animation creator
* Bob Barker, game show host, executive producer
* Cliff Barrows, music director
* William Bell, writer/producer
* Ted Bergmann, executive
* Milton Berle, performer
* Walter Bernstein, writer
* Barbara Billingsley, actress
* Wade Bingham, cameraman
* Lucille Bliss, voiceover artist
* Steven Bochco, producer
* Paul Bogart, director/producer
* Mili Lerner Bonsignori, news editor
* Tom Bosley, actor
* Ed Bradley, anchor correspondent
* David Brinkley, anchor/correspondent
* James L. Brooks, writer/producer/director
* Kirk Browning, director
* Frances Buss Buch, director
* Allan Burns, writer/producer
* James Burrows, director
* Robert Butler, director
* Sid Caesar, performer
* Dann Cahn, editor
* Vince Calandra, talent coordinator
* David Canary, daytime actor
* Stephen Cannell, show creator/producer/writer
* Charles Cappleman, executive
* Bob Carroll, Jr., producer/writer
* Diahann Carroll, actress
* Leo Chaloukian, sound executive
* Stan Chambers, KTLA news anchor
* Marge Champion, choreographer/dancer
* Glen & Les Charles, writers/producers
* Tony Charmoli, choreographer/dancer
* Julia Child, host
* Dick Clark, producer/entertainer
* Bob Claver, director/producer
* John Conte, host/station manager
* Tim Conway, performer
* Joan Ganz Cooney, co-creator of "Sesame Street"
* Tim Conway & Harvey Korman, performers
* Hal Cooper, director/producer
*
Barbara CordayBarbara Corday is a top American television executive, writer and producer mainly known for co-creating the television series Cagney & Lacey.-Work:...
, writer/executive
* Alexander Courage, composer
* Richard Crenna, actor
* Bill Daily, actor
* Madelyn Pugh Davis, producer/writer
* Ann B. Davis, actress
* Ossie Davis, writer/actor
* Fred de Cordova, producer
* Ruby Dee, actress
* Sam Denoff, writer/producer
* Phyllis Diller, comedian/actress
* Dr. Walter Dishell, medical consultant/writer
* Phil Donahue, show host
* Mike Douglas, show host
* Hugh Downs, host/anchor
* Bob Doyle, news producer
* Charles S. Dubin, director
* Betty Cole Dukert, producer ("Meet the Press")
* Roger Ebert, film critic/host
* Barbara Eden, actress
* Ruth Engelhardt, agent/executive
* Danny Epstein, composer
* Nanette Fabray, performer
* Jerry Falwell, religious broadcaster
* Elma Farnsworth, widow of TV inventor
* Bob Finkel, producer
* Dorothy (D.C.) Fontana, writer
* Ray Forrest, announcer
* John Forsythe, actor
* Charles Fox, composer
* Michael J. Fox, actor
* Eddie Foy, casting executive
* John Frankenheimer, director
* Dennis Franz, actor
* Albert Freedman, producer
* Gerald Fried, composer
* James Garner, actor
* Betty Garrett, performer
* Larry Gelbart, writer/producer
* Herschel Burke Gilbert, composer
* Leonard H. Goldenson, founder of ABC
* Jerry Goldsmith, composer
* Curt Gowdy, sportscaster
* Lee Grant, actress/director
* Everett Greenbaum, writer
* Andy Griffith, actor
* Robert Guillaume, actor
* Earle Hagen, composer
* Larry Hagman, actor
* Monty Hall, host
* Earl Hamner, writer/creator of “The Waltons”
* Kitty Carlisle Hart, actress
* Don Hastings, actor
* Dwight Hemion, director
* Florence Henderson, actress
* Lyle “Skitch” Henderson, music director
* Paul Henning, creator/producer
* Don Herbert, host (“Mr. Wizard”)
* Albert Heschong, art director
* Don Hewitt, show creator/news producer
* Arthur Hiller, director
* Martin Hoade, producer
* Ron Howard, actor/director
* Roy Huggins, producer/show creator
* Kim Hunter, actress
* Seaman Jacobs, writer
* Joseph Jennings, art director
* George Clayton Johnson, writer
* Lamont Johnson, director
* Russell Johnson, actor
* Quincy Jones, composer/producer
* Lucille Kallen, writer
* Hal Kanter, creator/writer/producer
* Bob Keeshan, host/”Captain Kangaroo”
* Lynwood King, director
* Ernest Kinoy, writer
* William Klages, lighting director
* Don Knotts, actor
* Harvey Korman, performer
* Sid & Marty Krofft, creators/producers
* Mort Lachman, writer/producer
* Perry Lafferty, executive/producer
* Angela Lansbury, actress
* Norman Lear, show creator/writer/director
* Jim Lehrer, news anchor/correspondent
* Jack Lemmon, actor
* Sheldon Leonard, producer/director
* Frank Liberman, publicist
* Art Linkletter, host
*
Norman LloydNorman Lloyd is an American veteran actor, producer and director with a career in entertainment spanning more than seven decades. Lloyd has appeared in over sixty films and television shows. Lloyd is married and resides in Los Angeles....
, actor/producer/director
* Sam Lovullo, producer ("Hee-Haw")
* Sidney Lumet, director
* Bob Mackie, costume designer
* Gavin MacLeod, actor
* Robert MacNeil, anchor/host
* Abby Mann, writer/producer
* Delbert Mann, director
* Martin Manulis, producer
* Bob Markell, set designer
* Garry Marshall, show creator/producer
* Richard Matheson, writer
* Bob McGrath, performer
* Jim McKay, sports broadcaster
* Ed McMahon, host/announcer
* Barney McNulty, cue card expert
* Jayne Meadows, actress
* Burt Metcalfe, producer
* Nolan Miller, costume designer
* John Moffitt, producer/director
* Ricardo Montalban, actor
* Thomas Moore, executive
* Harry Morgan, actor
* Rita Moreno, actress
* Pat Morita, actor
* Tad Mosel, writer
* Robert Mott, sound effects specialist/writer
* Alan Neuman, producer/director
* Bob Newhart, actor
* Leonard Nimoy, actor/director
* Agnes Nixon, soap opera creator/writer
* Nicolas Noxon, documentarian
* Hugh O’Brian, actor
* Carroll O’Connor, actor
* Don Ohlmeyer, executive
* Fess Parker, actor
* Estelle Parsons, actress
* Arthur Penn, director
* Bill Persky, writer/producer/director
* Daniel Petrie, Sr., director
* Abraham Polonsky, writer
* Tom Poston, performer
* David Pressman, director
* Tony Randall, actor
* Joyce Randolph, actress
* Frances Reid, daytime actress
* Carl Reiner, writer/actor/director
* Rob Reiner, actor/director
* Del Reisman, writer
* Gene Reynolds, director/producer
* Larry Rhine, writer
* John Rich, director/producer
* Lee Rich, executive/producer
* Hank Rieger, publicity executive
* Rita Riggs, costume designer
* Heino Ripp, technical director
* Cliff Robertson, actor
* Pat Robertson, religious broadcaster
* Fred Rogers, children's show creator
* Phil Roman, animation director
* Andy Rooney, commentator/writer
* Rose Marie, performer
* Meta Rosenberg, agent
* Marion Ross, actress
* Aaron Ruben, writer/producer
* Stanley Rubin, producer
* Tim Russert, host/executive
* Isabel Sanford, actress
* Jay Sandrich, director
* Thomas W. Sarnoff, executive
* Edgar Scherick, executive/producer
* Bob Schiller & Bob Weiskopf, writers/producers
* Alfred Schneider, standards & practices
* Sherwood Schwartz, show creator/producer
* Jan Scott, art director
* William Self, producer/executive
* William Shatner, actor
* Melville Shavelson, writer
* David Shaw, writer
* Jack Shea, director/producer
* James Sheldon, director
* Sidney Sheldon, writer/show creator
* Hazel Shermet, actress
* Fred Silverman, executive
* Garry Simpson, director
* Doris Singleton, actress
* Ira Skutch, director/stage manager
* Erika Slezak, actress ("One Life to Live")
* Howard Smit, makeup artist
* "Buffalo" Bob Smith, host/creator
* Dick Smith, makeup artist
* Gary Smith, director/producer
* Aaron Spelling, producer
* Carroll Spinney, puppeteer
* Frank Stanton, executive
* Jean Stapleton, actress
* Herb Stempel, quiz show contestant
* Leonard Stern, writer/producer
* Bob Stewart, producer/game show creator
* Gale Storm, actress
* John Strauss, publicist
* Maxine Stuart, actress
* Dick Stiles, art director
* George Takei, actor
* June Taylor, choreographer
* Noel Taylor, costume designer
* Studs Terkel, host/oral historian
* Grant Tinker, executive/producer
* Stanford Tischler, editor
* Mel Tolkin, writer/producer
* Daniel J. Travanti, actor
* Ret Turner, costume designer
* Ted Turner, network creator executive
* Dick Van Dyke, actor
* James Wall, stage manager/performer
* Mike Wallace, anchor/correspondent
* Ruth Warrick, actress
* Dennis Weaver, actor
* Joseph Wershba, news reporter/producer
* Betty White, actress
* Ethel Winant, casting executive
* Henry Winkler, actor/producer
- Jonathan Winters, comedian
- Ben Wolf, cinematographer
- Dick Wolf, producer
- David Wolper, producer/documentarian
- Jane Wyatt, actress
- Alan Young, actor
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