Blog Post Norman Lloyd's Interview Is Now Online! Norman Lloyd, best known for portraying St. Elsewhere 's kindly "Dr. Auschlander," was also a producer and one of the directors of Alfred Hitchcock Presents , and directed the famous "Man From the South" episode in which Steve McQueen bets Peter Lorre that he can light his Zippo lighter ten times...
Blog Post Producer/Director Alan Neuman's Interview Is Now Online Producer-director Alan Neuman directed innumerable “live” on-location dramatic, variety, and documentary productions, including NBC’s first televised presidential election coverage and the first show that ever linked four countries together. Click here to access the entire six-part videotaped...
Blog Post Beloved Character Actor Tom Poston Leaves A Legacy of Comedy Tom Poston, who was a regular on The Steve Allen Show , Mork & Mindy , and Newhart , has died at the age of 85. Poston was interviewed by the Archive of American Television on February 2006 (pictured here with interviewer Stephen J. Abramson). His entire two-hour interview (part 2 of 4 can be...
Blog Post Roger Ebert, Celebrating his 40th Anniversary as a Film Critic, Returns to Action The Archive has now posted its interview with Roger Ebert, conducted in 2005 on the set of Ebert & Roeper in Chicago. Click here to access his entire interview. Roger Ebert, the first person to win the Pulitizer Prize for Film Criticism, is celebrating his 40th anniversary as film critic for...
Blog Post We'll Miss You Bob Barker! Bob Barker has retired after 50+ years in television and 35 years as the host of The Price Is Right . The Archive wishes Bob a happy retirement! Barker was interviewed by the Archive of American Television in 2000 and inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame in 2004...
Blog Post Ron Howard's Archive of American Television Interview Is Now Online Ron Howard's interview, the Archive's 500th , is now available for viewing online. Fittingly, Howard's career spans a fifty-year history of television from his first roles as a child actor in such '50s shows as Playhouse 90 and The Red Skelton Show to his role as narrator and executive producer of...
Blog Post Prolific Writer David Shaw Dies -- Archive Interview Online David Shaw has died at the age of 90. Shaw was one of the most prolific writers during television's "Golden Age," nominated for an Emmy Award for his adaptation of "Our Town" for Producers Showcase . He was interviewed by the Archive of American Television on August 31, 2004. Writer David Shaw's...
Blog Post "The Simpsons" Hits the Big Screen After years and years of gossip and teasers about a Simpsons feature film, the time has come! This weekend marks the opening of The Simpsons Movie -- marking the iconic television series' transition to the big screen. In 2003, the Archive of American Television interviewed James L. Brooks, the...
Blog Post Former Televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker Messner Has Died -- Archive Interview is Online Tammy Faye Messner lost her battle with lung cancer and died on July 20th at the age of 65 ( story on CNN.com ). Messner and then-husband Jim Bakker founded the PTL Club in 1974 and later expanded it into a network; the two co-hosted the PTL Club from 1976-87. The PTL Club ended in scandal and...
Blog Post 2006-07 Primetime Emmy Awards Nominations Announced Nominations for the 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today. With this year's nominations, ER has become the most-nominated television series of all time with 120 nominations ( Cheers has 117). Sally Field, who was first nominated for an Emmy in 1977 for Sybil (she won), received her...
