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Tony Roberts on his early aspirations to be an actor, and on doing dramatic and comedic roles 03:57
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College
Tony Roberts on how different audiences react to comedy 05:17
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College
Tony Roberts on the comedic actor Hiram Sherman, and on what he learned from him as well as Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and others 04:27
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College
Tony Roberts on improv comedy, and on why he avoids watching sitcoms 10:10
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College
Tony Roberts on taking chances in comedy, the use of the laugh track, and on Milton Berle 03:45
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College
Tony Roberts on Zero Mostel and the Hollywood Blacklist 01:07
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College | Topic: Television Industry
Tony Roberts on Zero Mostel and the Hollywood Blacklist 01:07
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College | Topic: Industry Crossroads
Tony Roberts on Zero Mostel and the Hollywood Blacklist 01:07
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College | Topic: Hollywood Blacklist
Tony Roberts on the comedic actor Hiram Sherman, and on what he learned from him as well as Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and others 04:27
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College | Topic: Pivotal Career Moments
Tony Roberts on the comedic actor Hiram Sherman, and on what he learned from him as well as Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and others 04:27
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College | Topic: Creative Influences and Inspiration
Tony Roberts on learning comedic technique from Milton Berle, and on farce 07:44
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College | Topic: Pivotal Career Moments
Tony Roberts on learning comedic technique from Milton Berle, and on farce 07:44
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College | Topic: Creative Influences and Inspiration
Tony Roberts on learning comedic technique from Milton Berle, and on farce 01:43
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College
On summing up his career as an actor, and how he has navigated it; on the role agents and managers have played in his career 07:32
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College
On how an actor deals with being typecast; on how he feels about his career 06:03
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College
Tony Roberts on summing up his career as an actor, and how he has navigated it 04:38
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College | Profession: Performers
Tony Roberts on summing up his career as an actor, and how he has navigated it 04:38
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College | Profession: Actor
Tony Roberts on the role agents and managers have played in his career 02:52
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College | Profession: Performers
Tony Roberts on the role agents and managers have played in his career 02:52
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College | Profession: Actor
Tony Roberts on how an actor deals with being typecast 03:45
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College | Profession: Performers
Tony Roberts on how an actor deals with being typecast 03:45
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College | Profession: Actor
Tony Roberts on how he feels about his career 02:18
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College | Profession: Performers
Tony Roberts on how he feels about his career 02:18
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College | Profession: Actor
Tony Roberts on how an actor deals with being typecast 03:45
Interview: Tony Roberts with Emerson College
On his early life and influences; on his earliest impressions of movies and television; on his favorite programs growing up 13:17
Interview: Horace Newcomb
On how television made him and the society more socially aware; on participating in the Civil Rights Movement of the '60s; on how he got into studying television 25:55
Interview: Horace Newcomb
On his first writing about television, "Reflections on the Structure of Soap Opera"; on writing his first book on television, "TV: The Most Popular Art"; on writing about television for the "Baltimore Sun," and on the coming of age of television in the 1970s with shows like All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show 19:31
Interview: Horace Newcomb
On Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In; on M*A*S*H; on An American Family, and on the serialization of television which led to shows like Roots and Dallas 10:40
Interview: Horace Newcomb