Agent


The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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Highlights
Priscilla Morgan on early shows she signed her clients up for and her process of finding clients work
04:20
Ruth Engelhardt on the art of negotiation
06:00
Larry Auerbach on the concept of an agency "packaging" a show
02:29
Berle Adams on the MCA "uniform" for agents
01:46
Lou Weiss on William Morris in the '50s and making a deal
05:34
Priscilla Morgan on learning how to be an agent
02:48
Who talked about this profession

Berle Adams

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Berle Adams on packaging actors and television shows as an agent at MCA
02:32
Berle Adams on the MCA "uniform" for agents
01:46
Berle Adams on how MCA agents went after new clients
02:00
Berle Adams on packaging television shows as an agent at MCA
01:32
Berle Adams on how he structured deals for clients while an agent at MCA
02:57
Berle Adams on creating an international television division for MCA
03:11
Berle Adams on advice to aspiring agents
00:42

Larry Auerbach

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Larry Auerbach on the process of booking performers in his early years at the William Morris Agency
03:47
Larry Auerbach on the concept of an agency "packaging" a show
02:29
Larry Auerbach on the William Morris Agency television department in the 1970s
05:07
Larry Auerbach on advice to aspiring agents
02:37

Bernie Brillstein

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Bernie Brillstein on the difference between a manager and an agent
00:56

Ruth Engelhardt

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Ruth Engelhardt on the art of negotiation
06:00
Ruth Engelhardt on advice to an aspiring agent
01:42

Priscilla Morgan

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Priscilla Morgan on early shows she signed her clients up for and her process of finding clients work
04:20
Priscilla Morgan on learning how to be an agent
02:48
Priscilla Morgan on negotiating deals for William Morris and dealing with Fred Coe
05:27

Carroll O'Connor

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Actor Carroll O'Connor on how his agent got him his first film, A Fever in the Blood, by setting up producer Roy Huggins to see O'Connor on television in The Sacco-Vanzetti Story
00:50

Lou Weiss

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Lou Weiss on William Morris in the '50s and making a deal
05:34
Lou Weiss on the advent of packaging television 
04:13
Lou Weiss on his role in packaging television shows
01:25
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