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Legendary Make-up Artist Howard Smit Has Died at age 98-- Archive interview online

Howard Smit helped found IATSE Local 706 and had a fifty year career in the make-up field, starting in television in the mid-1930s at experimental station W6XAO. He was profiled earlier this year by

Legendary Newsman Walter Cronkite Dies at 92-- Archive Interview Excerpts Online

Walter Cronkite received the moniker, “the most trusted man in America” when he served as the anchorman and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981, due to his honesty, integrity

Don Mischer at the 2009 Emmy Nominations

Executive Producer of this year's Primetime Emmy Awards & Archive Interviewee, Don Mischer, was interviewed this morning at the nomination ceremony (at 6am!). He was happy to discuss the upcoming

Quincy Jones - on working with Michael Jackson

Composer and Music Producer Quincy Jones was interviewed for the Archive in 2002. In this excerpt from his 2 hour interview, he remembers when MTV first formed and how influential Michael Jackson's

Popular '50s TV Star Gale Storm Has Died at age 87-- Archive Interview Online

Gale Storm became America's sweetheart, playing free-spirited "Margie Albright" on the sitcom My Little Margie, forever trying to keep her widowed father (Charles Farrell) out of (romantic) troubles.

The Backstory: How Michael Jackson almost didn't make TV History in 1983

"...I shudder to think how close we came to not having that moment ever happen." Although not yet online, here's a striking interview excerpt from the Archive of American Television's interview with

Rick Baker on the making of Michael Jackson's Thriller

The Archive interviewed make-up artist Rick Baker in 2003 about his work in film and television. Baker also worked on Michael Jackson's infamous Thriller music video, and talks about the star and the

Longtime CBS Executive Anne Nelson Has Died-- Archive Interview Now Online

Anne Nelson, who worked at CBS for over sixty years, died at the age of 86. In her Archive interview, conducted on July 25, 1999, she discussed the many shows and talents that she came in touch with

Editor Sidney M. Katz Has Died-- Archive Interview Online Soon

Sidney M. Katz, who received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Cinema Editors in February, has died at the age of 91. His career spanned over sixty years, and among his television

The Tonight Show's Ed McMahon Has Died at age 86-- Archive Interview Online

Ed McMahon will forever be associated with The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and his trademark "Herrrrrre's Johnny" introduction, but in a career that spanned nearly 60 years, he was also known

Happy Father's Day

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences celebrated TV Dads on Thursday June 18th and the Archive of American Television was there to catch a few of the "adored and endeared" fathers on the press

"The Norman Lear Collection" Released on DVD

Comprising the first seasons of seven of Norman Lear's classic TV series, plus such extras as the newly-discovered All in the Family pilot "Justice for All," Sony releases "The Norman Lear Collection

Land of the Lost- the Archive interview with Sid&Marty Krofft

"Land of the Lost" starring Will Ferrell opens in theaters tomorrow. The film is based on the children's television series created by Sid and Marty Krofft, which followed a family thrown back in time

Andy Richter's First Day on the "Tonight Show"

Yes, tonight is Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show debut, but lest we forget Andy Richter will be joining him as the show's announcer/comedy-bit contributor. Although NBC has eschewed the word sidekick in

Producer of Classic TV, Richard Lewis, Has Died

Richard Lewis, who was responsible for producing several classics of television's Golden Age, has died at the age of 89. Richard Lewis was interviewed by the Archive by Karen Herman on March 8, 1999