Interview Frank Biondo In his three-hour interview, Frank Biondo talks about his childhood in Brooklyn, joining the Navy, and being a bond clerk on Wall Street before going to school for TV production and learning to be a camera operator. He discusses his early jobs in production at WTTV in Washington, D.C. and WBZ in...
Interview Nancy Cartwright In her nearly two-and-a-half-hour interview, Nancy Cartwright describes how she got her start as a voiceover artist. Active in speech club in high school, she discovered her talent with voices and pursued communications in college, first at Ohio University, then at UCLA, to be closer to the...
Interview Walter C. Miller In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Walter C. Miller (1926-2020) talks about his early life, and his first television directing job, on NBC’s Sing Along with Mitch . He describes his experiences directing live television, including witnessing several bloopers, and directing The Bell Telephone...
Interview Melissa Gilbert In her three-hour interview, Melissa Gilbert discusses her career as an actress/producer/director. She shares stories of her famous grandfather, Honeymooners creator Harry Crane, and recalls her early foray into acting in television commercials. Gilbert then details her time playing "Laura Ingalls...
Interview Dick Van Patten In his two-hour interview, Dick Van Patten (1928-2015) discusses the beginning of his acting career, performing in 27 Broadway shows from the time he was just seven years old. He details what it was like working as a child actor on his first TV show, Mama , and how this prepared him for the leading...