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In his nearly two-and-a-half-hour interview, producer Stanley Rubin (1917-2014) talks about his early years in the entertainment business working in the mailroom at Paramount Pictures and as a reader for...

In his nearly three-hour interview, Jim Lehrer (1934-2020) talks about his early years as a newspaper reporter and his transition to broadcast journalist. He describes being in Dallas on the...

In his three-hour interview, Michael Chiklis recalls his early interest in acting and performing in Summer Stock as a teenager. He tells of studying acting at Boston University, moving to...

In his three-hour interview, Michael King (1948-2015) talks about his adolescent years and early interests and describes his first work in broadcasting, selling time in radio. He chronicles the history...

In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Eddie Kean (1924-2010) talks about his background growing up in a musical household. He discusses his early years as a songwriter, which led to his meeting...

In his three-hour interview, Eric Braeden talks about growing up in Germany during World War II and immigrating to the United States. He describes his interest in acting and outlines...

In his three-hour interview, Ward Quaal (1919-2010) describes his lifelong association with Chicago television station WGN, including his beginning as an announcer and working his way up to station manager...

In his two-hour interview, Michael Westmore discusses his family's background as makeup artists (grandfather George applied makeup for Mary Pickford and father Monte was the makeup artist for Gone With...

In his three-hour interview, Loring Mandel (1928-2020) talks about his early life, and his beginning in local Chicago television working with the likes of Mike Wallace, Dave Garroway, and Irv...

In his three-hour interview, Howard K. Smith (1914-2002) details his time in Europe at the outbreak of World War II, first as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, later as a...

In his nearly two-and-a-half-hour interview, Ken Corday talks about his parents, Ted and Betty Corday, who, along with Irna Philips and Allan Chase, created Days of Our Lives which premiered...

In his three-and-a-half-hour interview, Jeff Zucker talks about his upbringing in Florida and his college years at Harvard. He discusses his early interest in journalism and his first job in...

In his five-hour interview, Ernest Kinoy (1925-2014) describes his early career writing for NBC radio. He discusses writing for many "live" dramatic television shows, including Studio One, Philco-Goodyear Playhouse, Playhouse...

In his nearly three-hour interview, Dan Castellaneta talks about his work as an ensemble player on The Tracey Ullman Show, and his most well-known role, as the voice of "Homer...

In his two-hour-plus interview, Imero Fiorentino (1928-2013) discusses his early years and influences - going to Radio City Music Hall and being intrigued by theater arts, and joining the "stage...

In her over three-hour interview, Josie Carey (1930-2004) discusses beginning her television career as an associate producer on KDKA in Pittsburgh before joining Pittsburgh's then-new public television station WQED, where...

In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Jeffrey Hayden (1926-2016) talks about his career as an associate director in the first years of the ABC-TV network (1948-50) and as a prolific director of...

In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Frank Gifford (1930-2015) outlines his career, beginning with his tenure as a professional football player for the New York Giants. Gifford then discusses how his football...

In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Howard Storm talks about his comic teaming with Lou Gostel in his early career, and outlines the various venues they worked. He talks about his single...

In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Max Wilk (1920-2011) briefly describes his beginnings as a writer in radio, touring with Irving Berlin's This Is the Army during World War II, and his...