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Walter Grauman on getting into TV, co- writing, directing, and producing the talent show Lights, Camera, Action 01:26
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: Lights, Camera, Action!
Producer-director Walter Grauman on the flubs made by Lights, Camera, Action (1950) emcee Walter Woolf King on "live" TV 01:31
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: Lights, Camera, Action!
Lights, Camera, Action producer-director Walter Grauman on being sued by Hollywood Screen Test producer Lester Lewis (Grauman misidentifies him as Lester White) for similarity in the two show's concepts 01:51
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: Lights, Camera, Action!
Lights, Camera, Action producer-director Walter Grauman on being sued by Hollywood Screen Test producer Lester Lewis (Grauman misidentifies him as Lester White) for similarity in the two show's concepts 01:51
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: Hollywood Screen Test
Walter Grauman on breaking into NBC network dramatic series directing with Cameo Theatre 01:42
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: Cameo Theatre
Director Walter Grauman on directing Cameo Theatre: "The Man From the South" later remade (with Steve McQueen) as the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Man from the South" [note: the star in the Cameo Theatre show was John Lupton, not Steve McQueen as Grauman recalls] 01:55
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: Cameo Theatre
Director Walter Grauman on directing Cameo Theatre: "The Man From the South" later remade (with Steve McQueen) as the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Man from the South" [note: the star in the Cameo Theatre show was John Lupton, not Steve McQueen as Grauman recalls] 01:55
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: Alfred Hitchcock Presents aka The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Director Walter Grauman on actress Sarah Churchill needing to get bailed out of jail to make her "live" appearance on Matinee Theater 03:20
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: NBC Matinee Theater
Director Walter Grauman on working with boxer Primo Carnera on Matinee Theater: "Frankenstein" (airdate: 2/5/57), in which an overzealous and unrehearsed Carnera (playing Frankenstein's monster) threw an actor through the scenery 03:29
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: NBC Matinee Theater
Director Walter Grauman on how a superstition led Sylvia Sidney to forget the final line on "live" TV for a Matinee Theater show [tentatively identified by Grauman as "Death of a Salesman" but possibly "The Gift and the Giver" (airdate: 12/16/57)] 01:29
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: NBC Matinee Theater
Director Walter Grauman on a mishap that occurred to Constance Bennett minutes before a "live" TV production of Matinee Theater [likely "One Hundred Red Convertibles (airdate: 9/5/56), for which the credits match] 01:07
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: NBC Matinee Theater
Director Walter Grauman briefly on Cameo Theatre and Matinee Theater creator/producer Albert McCleery 00:30
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: Cameo Theatre
Director Walter Grauman briefly on Cameo Theatre and Matinee Theater creator/producer Albert McCleery 00:30
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: NBC Matinee Theater
Director Walter Grauman on the indelible impression left on him by newcomer Charles Bronson during production of the Colt .45 episode "Young Gun" 01:27
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: Colt .45
Director Walter Grauman on hiring formerly blacklisted actor Jeff Corey on The Untouchables (and how Corey nearly lost the job) 01:20
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: Untouchables, The
Director Walter Grauman on the Naked City episode "Hold for Gloria Christmas," recalling it for early appearances by Alan Alda and Jessica Walter, as well as for writer "Joel Carpenter" who he discovered was blacklisted Arnold Manoff's pseudonym 03:22
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: Naked City
Producer-director Walter Grauman on the format of Lights, Camera, Action 01:53
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Show: Lights, Camera, Action!
Producer-director Walter Grauman on the flubs made by Lights, Camera, Action (1950) emcee Walter Woolf King on "live" TV 01:24
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Topic: Bloopers
Director Walter Grauman on working with boxer Primo Carnera on Matinee Theater: "Frankenstein" (airdate: 2/5/57), in which an overzealous and unrehearsed Carnera (playing Frankenstein's monster) threw a stuntman through the scenery 03:28
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Topic: Bloopers
Director Walter Grauman on how a superstition led Sylvia Sidney to forget the final line on "live" TV for a Matinee Theater show [tentatively identified by Grauman as "Death of a Salesman" but possibly "The Gift and the Giver" (airdate: 12/16/57)] 01:23
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Topic: Bloopers
Director Walter Grauman on hiring formerly blacklisted actor Jeff Corey on The Untouchables (and how Corey nearly lost the job) 03:23
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Topic: Hollywood Blacklist
Director Walter Grauman on the Naked City episode "Hold for Gloria Christmas," recalling it for early appearances by Alan Alda and Jessica Walter, as well as for "Joel Carpenter" who he discovered was blacklisted Arnold Manoff's pseudonym 03:22
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Topic: Hollywood Blacklist
On producer Quinn Martin; on directing for The Untouchables, which he took based on his favorable impression of the script for the episode "The Noise of Death"; on Untouchables star Robert Stack; on appeasing the censor in filming a massacre scene in The Untouchables episode "The White Slavers" 22:49
Interview: Walter E. Grauman
On working out the approach to "Lt. Gerard" on The Fugitive with producer Quinn Martin; on Fugitive star David Janssen; on the Twilight Zone episode "Miniature" 37:11
Interview: Walter E. Grauman
On getting hired on Barnaby Jones and working with star Buddy Ebsen; on working on location for The Streets of San Francisco; on working with Angela Lansbury on Murder, She Wrote 27:01
Interview: Walter E. Grauman
On Peter Falk inventing the key clue for solving the crime on the Colombo show "Murder in Malibu"; on working with Keith Mitchell and Jerry Orbach on Murder, She Wrote 10:25
Interview: Walter E. Grauman
Director Walter Grauman on his work on The Untouchables 22:49
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Genre: Drama Series
Director Walter Grauman on Robert Stack, and a memorable reaction he had to a piece of Grauman's direction, filming the Untouchables episode "Head of Fire, Feet of Clay" 01:40
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Person: Robert Stack
Director Walter Grauman on Fugitive star David Janssen 00:41
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Person: David Janssen
Director Walter Grauman on working with Buddy Ebsen on Barnaby Jones 01:01
Interview: Walter E. Grauman | Person: Buddy Ebsen