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The Archive of American Television is a division of the non-profit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that films interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.^[1]

The Archive of American Television has posted over 200 videotaped interviews online. It is their ultimate goal to be the world’s largest and most advanced oral history collection on the history of television. The archive's subjects include all professions within the television industry. Examples include: actors Alan Alda, Ossie Davis, Michael J. Fox, James Garner, Mary Tyler Moore ^[2], William Shatner, and Dick Van Dyke; producers Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, Steven Bochco, Phil Rosenthal, Sherwood Schwartz, Fred Rogers and Dick Wolf; newscasters Walter Cronkite, Ed Bradley, Bob Schieffer and David Brinkley; executives Fred Silverman, Sumner Redstone, Leslie Moonves, Robert Johnson, Kay Koplovitz, Frank Stanton and Ted Turner; costume designers Bob Mackie and Nolan Miller; choreographers Tony Charmoli and Cyd Charisse; writers Roy Huggins, Tad Mosel, Sidney Sheldon, Abby Mann and Ann Marcus.

History

Motivated by Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Foundation, which has videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors, Dean Valentine (former Disney Television and UPN president) was inspired to create a similar project for television. Valentine developed and presented a proposal to the TV Academy, under then-president Richard H. Frank and Academy Foundation Chairman Thomas W. Sarnoff. NBC executive Grant Tinker, Award-winning producer David L. Wolper are the Archive's founding co-chairs.

Beginning in early 1996, the Archive of American Television completed its first six interviews as part of its pilot stage. The initial six interviews were with Leonard Goldenson, founder of ABC, Dick Smith, television’s first make-up artist; Elma Farnsworth, widow and lab assistant to television inventor Philo Farnsworth; Ethel Winant, casting executive; Sheldon Leonard, show creator and director; and comedian Milton Berle. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation officially launched the Archive of American Television in 1997.

Thousands of hours of historic interviews have been completed with over 500 TV legends. Full-length video interviews currently online include actors Alan Alda, Richard Crenna, Barbara Eden, Jonathan Winters, Ossie Davis, Michael J. Fox, Dick Van Dyke, Dick Clark ^[3], Florence Henderson, Andy Griffith, Bob Newhart, Julia Child, William Shatner, Carl Reiner, writer and producers Norman Lear, Sherwood Schwartz, Steven Bochco, and Dick Wolf, news legends Walter Cronkite, Ed Bradley, Robert MacNeil, Jim McKay, Mike Wallace and David Brinkley, and Executives Fred Silverman, Leonard Goldenson, Bea Arthur, Roger Ebert ^[4] and Ted Turner.

TV Foundation Chair Jerry Petry, TV Foundation Executive Director Terri Clark, and Archive Director Karen Herman guide the day to day operations of the Archive. Archive staff, professors, scholars and journalists from around the country volunteer their time to conduct these interviews. The Foundation employs a small staff who prepare all of the research and questions in advance. Local video crews photograph each interview.

Interviews online

Patricia Heaton, actress
Alan Alda, actor/producer/director
Steve Allen, host/performer
Army Archerd, journalist/host
James Arness, actor
Beatrice Arthur, actress
Edward Asner, actor
Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner, religious broadcaster
Bob Banner, producer/director
Joseph Barbera, animation creator
Bob Barker, game show host, executive producer
Cliff Barrows, music director
William Bell, writer/producer
Ted Bergmann, executive
Milton Berle, performer
Walter Bernstein, writer
Barbara Billingsley, actress
Wade Bingham, cameraman
Lucille Bliss, voiceover artist
Steven Bochco, producer
Paul Bogart, director/producer
Mili Lerner Bonsignori, news editor
Tom Bosley, actor
Ed Bradley, anchor correspondent
David Brinkley, anchor/correspondent
James L. Brooks, writer/producer/director
Kirk Browning, director
Frances Buss Buch, director
Allan Burns, writer/producer
James Burrows, director
Robert Butler, director
Sid Caesar, performer
Dann Cahn, editor
Vince Calandra, talent coordinator
David Canary, daytime actor
Stephen Cannell, show creator/producer/writer
Charles Cappleman, executive
Bob Carroll, Jr., producer/writer
Diahann Carroll, actress
Leo Chaloukian, sound executive
Stan Chambers, KTLA news anchor
Marge Champion, choreographer/dancer
Glen & Les Charles, writers/producers
Tony Charmoli, choreographer/dancer
Julia Child, host
Dick Clark, producer/entertainer
Bob Claver, director/producer
John Conte, host/station manager
Joan Ganz Cooney, co-creator of "Sesame Street"
Tim Conway & Harvey Korman, performers
Hal Cooper, director/producer
Barbara Corday, writer/executive
Alexander Courage, composer
Richard Crenna, actor
Bill Daily, actor
Madelyn Pugh Davis, producer/writer
Ann B. Davis, actress
Ossie Davis, writer/actor
Fred de Cordova, producer
Ruby Dee, actress
Sam Denoff, writer/producer
Phyllis Diller, comedian/actress
Dr. Walter Dishell, medical consultant/writer
Phil Donahue, show host
Mike Douglas, show host
Hugh Downs, host/anchor
Bob Doyle, news producer
Charles S. Dubin, director
Betty Cole Dukert, producer ("Meet the Press")
Roger Ebert, film critic/host
Barbara Eden, actress
Ruth Engelhardt, agent/executive
Danny Epstein, composer
Nanette Fabray, performer
Jerry Falwell, religious broadcaster
Elma Farnsworth, widow of TV inventor
Bob Finkel, producer
Dorothy (D.C.) Fontana, writer
Ray Forrest, announcer
John Forsythe, actor
Charles Fox, composer
Michael J. Fox, actor
Eddie Foy, casting executive
John Frankenheimer, director
Dennis Franz, actor
Albert Freedman, producer
Gerald Fried, composer
James Garner, actor
Betty Garrett, performer
Larry Gelbart, writer/producer
Herschel Burke Gilbert, composer
Leonard H. Goldenson, founder of ABC
Jerry Goldsmith, composer
Curt Gowdy, sportscaster
Lee Grant, actress/director
Everett Greenbaum, writer
Andy Griffith, actor
Robert Guillaume, actor
Earle Hagen, composer
Larry Hagman, actor
Monty Hall, host
Earl Hamner, writer/creator of “The Waltons”
Kitty Carlisle Hart, actress
Don Hastings, actor
Dwight Hemion, director
Florence Henderson, actress
Lyle “Skitch” Henderson, music director
Paul Henning, creator/producer
Don Herbert, host (“Mr. Wizard”)
Albert Heschong, art director
Don Hewitt, show creator/news producer
Arthur Hiller, director
Martin Hoade, producer
Ron Howard, actor/director
Roy Huggins, producer/show creator
Kim Hunter, actress
Seaman Jacobs, writer
Joseph Jennings, art director
George Clayton Johnson, writer
Lamont Johnson, director
Russell Johnson, actor
Quincy Jones, composer/producer
Lucille Kallen, writer
Hal Kanter, creator/writer/producer
Bob Keeshan, host/”Captain Kangaroo”
Lynwood King, director
Ernest Kinoy, writer
William Klages, lighting director
Don Knotts, actor
Harvey Korman, performer
Sid & Marty Krofft, creators/producers
Mort Lachman, writer/producer
Perry Lafferty, executive/producer
Angela Lansbury, actress
Norman Lear, show creator/writer/director
Jim Lehrer, news anchor/correspondent
Jack Lemmon, actor
Sheldon Leonard, producer/director
Frank Liberman, publicist
Art Linkletter, host
Norman Lloyd, actor/producer/director
Sam Lovullo, producer ("Hee-Haw")
Sidney Lumet, director
Bob Mackie, costume designer
Gavin MacLeod, actor
Robert MacNeil, anchor/host
Abby Mann, writer/producer
Delbert Mann, director
Martin Manulis, producer
Bob Markell, set designer
Garry Marshall, show creator/producer
Richard Matheson, writer
Bob McGrath, performer
Jim McKay, sports broadcaster
Ed McMahon, host/announcer
Barney McNulty, cue card expert
Jayne Meadows, actress
Burt Metcalfe, producer
Nolan Miller, costume designer
John Moffitt, producer/director
Ricardo Montalban, actor
Thomas Moore, executive
Harry Morgan, actor
Rita Moreno, actress
Pat Morita, actor
Tad Mosel, writer
Robert Mott, sound effects specialist/writer
Alan Neuman, producer/director
Bob Newhart, actor
Leonard Nimoy, actor/director
Agnes Nixon, soap opera creator/writer
Nicolas Noxon, documentarian
Hugh O’Brian, actor
Carroll O’Connor, actor
Don Ohlmeyer, executive
Fess Parker, actor
Estelle Parsons, actress
Arthur Penn, director
Bill Persky, writer/producer/director
Daniel Petrie, Sr., director
Abraham Polonsky, writer
Tom Poston, performer
David Pressman, director
Tony Randall, actor
Joyce Randolph, actress
Frances Reid, daytime actress
Carl Reiner, writer/actor/director
Rob Reiner, actor/director
Del Reisman, writer
Gene Reynolds, director/producer
Larry Rhine, writer
John Rich, director/producer
Lee Rich, executive/producer
Hank Rieger, publicity executive
Rita Riggs, costume designer
Heino Ripp, technical director
Cliff Robertson, actor
Pat Robertson, religious broadcaster
Fred Rogers, children's show creator
Phil Roman, animation director
Andy Rooney, commentator/writer
Rose Marie, performer
Meta Rosenberg, agent
Marion Ross, actress
Aaron Ruben, writer/producer
Stanley Rubin, producer
Tim Russert, host/executive
Isabel Sanford, actress
Jay Sandrich, director
Thomas W. Sarnoff, executive
Edgar Scherick, executive/producer
Bob Schiller & Bob Weiskopf, writers/producers
Alfred Schneider, standards & practices
Sherwood Schwartz, show creator/producer
Jan Scott, art director
William Self, producer/executive
William Shatner, actor
Melville Shavelson, writer
David Shaw, writer
Jack Shea, director/producer
James Sheldon, director
Sidney Sheldon, writer/show creator
Hazel Shermet, actress
Fred Silverman, executive
Garry Simpson, director
Doris Singleton, actress
Ira Skutch, director/stage manager
Erika Slezak, actress ("One Life to Live")
Howard Smit, makeup artist
"Buffalo" Bob Smith, host/creator
Dick Smith, makeup artist
Gary Smith, director/producer
Aaron Spelling, producer
Carroll Spinney, puppeteer
Frank Stanton, executive
Jean Stapleton, actress
Herb Stempel, quiz show contestant
Leonard Stern, writer/producer
Bob Stewart, producer/game show creator
Gale Storm, actress
John Strauss, publicist
Maxine Stuart, actress
Dick Stiles, art director
George Takei, actor
June Taylor, choreographer
Noel Taylor, costume designer
Studs Terkel, host/oral historian
Grant Tinker, executive/producer
Stanford Tischler, editor
Mel Tolkin, writer/producer
Daniel J. Travanti, actor
Ret Turner, costume designer
Ted Turner, network creator executive
Dick Van Dyke, actor
James Wall, stage manager/performer
Mike Wallace, anchor/correspondent
Ruth Warrick, actress
Dennis Weaver, actor
Joseph Wershba, news reporter/producer
Betty White, actress
Ethel Winant, casting executive
Henry Winkler, actor/producer
Jonathan Winters, comedian
Ben Wolf, cinematographer
Dick Wolf, producer
David Wolper, producer/documentarian
Jane Wyatt, actress
Alan Young, actor

References

^ New York Times “Interviews With Legends of Television Hit Web” September 13, 2009
^ Will Richmond (September 18, 2009). "4 Items Worth Noting from the Week of September 14th". VideoNuze. Retrieved March 15, 2010.
^ "TV Academy Foundation launches Emmy legend site". USA Today. September 18, 2009.
^ Sandra Kofler (September 28, 2009). "Web Hot List: The Archive of American Television". TV Guide Magazine. Retrieved March 16, 2010.

External links

[nytimes-1] New York Times “Interviews With Legends of Television Hit Web” September 13, 2009

[2] Will Richmond (September 18, 2009). "4 Items Worth Noting from the Week of September 14th". VideoNuze. Retrieved March 15, 2010.

[3] "TV Academy Foundation launches Emmy legend site". USA Today. September 18, 2009.

[4] Sandra Kofler (September 28, 2009). "Web Hot List: The Archive of American Television". TV Guide Magazine. Retrieved March 16, 2010.

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 *[http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/alexander-courage Alexander Courage]