Interview Richard Donner In his three-and-a-half-hour interview, Richard Donner (1930-2021) talks about his start as an actor in New York and the career-changing moment when director Martin Ritt told him that he should work behind the camera as his assistant. Donner describes his start as a director, working in commercials...
Interview Marla Gibbs In her two-and-a-half-hour interview, Marla Gibbs talks about getting her start as an actress in Los Angeles after working many jobs and raising a family in the Midwest. She speaks in great detail about the role and the series with which she is most identified, "Florence Johnston" on The Jeffersons...
Interview Don Pardo In his three-and-a-half-hour interview, Don Pardo (1918-2014) talks about joining NBC in 1944. He defines his duties as a staff announcer and lists several of the radio and early television series on which he worked. He describes his trademark announcing style and speaks of his long association...
Interview Robert Conrad In his two-hour interview, Robert Conrad (1935-2020) describes his early years as an athlete, singer, and actor in Chicago, before he set out to look for professional acting work in Hollywood. He talks about his early auditions, learning to do his own stunts, and being signed as a contract player...
Interview Lesley Stahl In her one-hour interview, Lesley Stahl talks about discovering her passion for journalism and her early years in television, including working as a producer at CBS affiliate WHDH in Boston. She discusses how she came to work for CBS News in the early 1970s as a Washington reporter and touches on...
