Buzz Kulik

Seymour "Buzz" Kulik (July 23, 1922 – January 13, 1999) was an American film director and producer. He directed 72 films and television shows, including the landmark CBS television network anthology series Playhouse 90 and several episodes of The Twilight Zone. Kulik went on to direct made-for-TV movies, such as Brian's Song. After leaving the army as a first lieutenant after World War II, Kulik went to work in the mail room at J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency in New York. He eventually saw a notice at work that they were looking for people to direct programs for a new medium called television, and Kulik responded. A lifelong baseball fan, he started directing the cameras at Yankee Stadium before starting a career directing live television programming such as Playhouse 90 and Lux Video Theater. He moved to Los Angeles in 1953 and eventually began directing some of the landmark series of the 1950s and 1960s including Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel, Wagon Train, Rawhide, Dr. Kildare and The Defenders (for which he directed the pilot episode). He directed a dozen episodes of Twilight Zone, which brought him lasting fame and recognition among the legion of fans who religiously watch the Twilight Zone marathons that continue to air on holidays to this day. Kulik also began directing feature films in the 1960s including Explosive Generation with William Shatner, Warning Shot with David Jansen, Villa Rides with Robert Mitchum, Yul Brynner, and Charles Bronson, and Riot with Gene Hackman and Jim Brown. He directed the first television mini-series, Vanished, with Richard Widmark and James Farentino. In 1971, he directed what many critics and fans feel is the greatest television film ever made, Brian's Song, for which he received "Best Director" honors from the Directors Guild of America. For several years in a row the lead actors in the films he directed won "Best Actor" of the year including Peter Ustinov for A Storm in Summer, James Caan for Brian's Song, Alan Alda for Kill Me if You Can, Susan Clark for Babe, and Anthony Hopkins for The Lindbergh Kidnapping. Some of the prominent long-form mini series he directed were From Here to Eternity with Natalie Wood and William Devane, Around the World in 80 Days with Pierce Brosnin and Peter Ustinov, and Kane and Abel with Peter Strauss. In the 1970s and 1980s he also directed feature films including To Find a Man, Shamus with Burt Reynolds, and The Hunter with Steve McQueen. Over the course of a career that lasted more than 40 years, Buzz Kulik established himself, and is remembered today, as one of the greatest television directors of all time.

Works

Lucky Chances

The Santangelo family builds a casino empire in Las Vegas. After Gino's death, his daughter Lucky fights to keep control of the business and fortune.

Release Date:1990-10-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:3

Around the World in 80 Days

The plot centres around Phileas Fogg making a £20,000 wager with three members of the Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days. He takes with him his newly employed French valet Passepartout, and is pursued by Detective Wilbur Fix who mistakenly thinks Fogg robbed the Bank of England and is using the wager as a cover to escape capture.

Release Date:1989-04-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:71

Too Young The Hero

TV movie based upon the true story of Calvin Graham, who, as a 12 year old boy, enlisted in the US Navy during WWII.

Release Date:1988-03-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:10

Her Secret Life

Kate Capshaw plays a schoolteacher and suburban housewife who happens to be an ex-spy. Nobody knows of Capshaw's previous espionage activities, least of all her somewhat obtuse husband Cliff De Young. When Capshaw's ex-lover Jeroen Krabbe, an intimate of Castro, lands in a Cuban prison, she is swept back into the spy business, leaving her nonplussed hubby in the dust.

Release Date:1987-04-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Women of Valor

A group of American Army nurses are captured by the Japanese in April 1942 and spend three years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bataan. Lt Margaret Ann Jessup, the head army nurse, survives the camp and testifies against the Japanese in front of the United States Congressional subcommittee years later as a colonel.

Release Date:1986-11-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

Kane & Abel

Kane & Abel is a television miniseries, based on the novel of the same name written by Jeffrey Archer, that aired on CBS in 1985. It stars Peter Strauss as Rosnovski and Sam Neill as Kane.

Release Date:1985-11-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:19

George Washington

This 1984 miniseries chronicles the life of George Washington, the 1st President of the United States, from age 11 to age 51. Based on the biography by James Thomas Flexner.

Release Date:1984-04-08

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:7

Rage of Angels

A young assistant district attorney is used by a ruthless attorney to get his client off. She is fired and almost disbarred, but fights back to become a top attorney, torn between two lovers.

Release Date:1983-02-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:4

Rage of Angels

Based on Sidney Sheldon's novel. A young assistant district attorney is used by a ruthless attorney to get his client off. She is fired and almost disbarred but fights back to become a top attorney, torn between two lovers: Morell and a married lawyer with political aspirations.

Release Date:1983-02-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop?

Release Date:1981-11-13

Department:Crew

Job:Additional Writing

Vote Count:30

The Hunter

During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.

Release Date:1980-08-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:139

From Here to Eternity

The lives of the men and families of G Company, 24th Infantry Division, United States Army, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Release Date:1979-02-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:4

Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women

The life and times of the flamboyant showman who built his legendary Follies around beautiful women -- as told by the women in his life.

Release Date:1978-05-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Kill Me If You Can

The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.

Release Date:1977-09-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Corey: For the People

A wealthy socialite is accused of killing her husband. She claims self-defense as a battered wife, and the district attorney plans to go along with that. However, an assistant district attorney files capital murder charges against her, as he believes she's not quite the innocent, abused wife she portrays herself to be. This was a pilot film for a proposed series that did not get picked up.

Release Date:1977-06-12

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Never Con a Killer

Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit Runyonesque horseplayer E.J. Valerian.

Release Date:1977-05-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Feather And Father Gang

Release Date:1977-03-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, Bruno Hauptmann.

Release Date:1976-02-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

Babe

This is the life story of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century, from her early Texas tomboy days to her Gold Medal triumphs at the 1932 Olympics, her remarkable career as a champion golfer, her fulfilling marriage to wrestler George Zaharias, and the final battle with the only thing tougher than she was.

Release Date:1975-10-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Matt Helm

In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involved with black marketeers and gun runners.

Release Date:1975-05-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Cage Without a Key

A high school girl who needs a ride accepts one from a boy she doesn't know. He then forces her to participate in a robbery, in which a clerk is killed. They are soon caught, and the girl, despite her protestations of innocence, is convicted of first-degree murder and sent to prison. Once she gets there, she finds out that her troubles are just beginning.

Release Date:1975-03-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Bad Ronald

When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from the law by creating a concealed room in their home for him to live.

Release Date:1974-10-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:53

Remember When

An uncle's (Jack Warden) memories give strength to a New England family with four sons fighting in World War II.

Release Date:1974-03-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Pioneer Woman

A homesteading family in 1867 Wyoming faces a crisis when the husband is killed and the wife must decide whether to remain or take her son and daughter back East.

Release Date:1973-12-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John

During World War II, Archbishop Angelo Roncalli attempts to save Jews in Italy from Nazi exterminators.

Release Date:1973-04-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Shamus

New York private eye Shamus McCoy likes girls, drink and gambling, but by the look of his flat business can't be too hot. So an offer of $10,000 to finds some diamonds stolen in a daring raid with a flame-thrower is too good to miss. His investigations soon get pretty complicated and rather too dangerous. At least along the way he does get to meet Alexis.

Release Date:1973-01-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:22

Incident on a Dark Street

A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.

Release Date:1973-01-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Lecturer and broadcaster Sheridan Whiteside has been invited to dinner at the home of a pompous small-town bigwig. But he stays rather longer than anyone expects.

Release Date:1972-11-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Crawlspace

A childless middle-age couple adopt a troubled youth they find living in their crawlspace and attempt to get him to rejoin society with tragic results.

Release Date:1972-02-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:10

To Find a Man

A boarding-school girl asks the boy next door for help getting an abortion.

Release Date:1972-01-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Brian's Song

Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.

Release Date:1971-11-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:85

Vanished

Government agencies investigate the mysterious disappearance of a powerful presidential adviser.

Release Date:1971-03-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:4

A Storm in Summer

A story of the friendship between an elderly Jewish man and a young African-American boy set during the Vietnam War.

Release Date:1970-02-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Riot

A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.

Release Date:1969-01-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:18

Villa Rides

Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa and his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados and stealing women's hearts as they go. But each has a nemesis among his friends: Arnold is tormented by Fierro, Villa's right-hand-man; and Villa must face possible betrayal by his own president's naiveté

Release Date:1968-05-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:56

Sergeant Ryker

During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and sentenced to death but his attorney believes Ryker's innocent and asks for a new trial.

Release Date:1968-02-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Warning Shot

Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.

Release Date:1967-01-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:22

Ready for the People

In a barroom fight over Connie Zelenko, Eddie Dickinson is badly wounded and Connie's boyfriend is killed. Witnesses claim Dickinson is the killer, but he maintains his innocence despite public prosecutor Murray Brock's advice that he plead guilty and take a life-imprisonment sentence rather than risk capital punishment. When Connie comes out of hiding, she confirms the other witnesses' stories, but Brock believes Dickinson is innocent. Dickinson sticks to his story at his trial but receives the death sentence. In the death house, Dickinson continues to maintain his innocence, but after the execution of the sentence, Brock receives a letter from Dickinson confessing to the murder.

Release Date:1964-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Kentucky Jones

Kentucky Jones is a half-hour comedy/drama starring Dennis Weaver as Kenneth Yarborough "K.Y. or Kentucky" Jones, D.V.M., a recently widowed former horse trainer and active rancher, who becomes the guardian of Dwight Eisenhower "Ike" Wong, a 10-year-old Chinese orphan, played by Ricky Der. Harry Morgan, previously of the CBS sitcoms December Bride and Pete and Gladys, was featured in the series as Seldom Jackson, a former jockey who assists Dr. Jones. Cherylene Lee appears as Annie Ng, Ike's friend. Arthur Wong portrays Mr. Ng, Annie's father. Keye Luke stars as Mr. Wong, a friend of Dr. Jones. Nancy Rennick appears as Miss Throncroft, a social worker. Kentucky Jones, which ran on NBC from September 19, 1964, to September 11, 1965, was the first of Weaver's four series, the most successful having been McCloud, since he left the role of the marshal's helper Chester Goode on CBS's western classic Gunsmoke, starring James Arness. Richard Bull, who later portrayed the henpecked storekeeper Nels Oleson on NBC's Little House on the Prairie, appeared twice on Kentucky Jones as Harold Erkel in episodes entitled "The Victim" and "The Return of Wong Lee".

Release Date:1964-09-19

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:26

Vote Count:1

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly. Como's production company, Roncom Films, also produced Kraft Suspense Theatre. Writer, editor, critic and radio playwright Anthony Boucher served as consultant on the series. Later syndicated under the title Crisis, it was one of the few suspense series telecast in color at the time. While most of NBC's shows were in color then, all-color network line-ups did not become the norm until the 1966-67 season.

Release Date:1963-10-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:3

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.

Release Date:1963-10-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:6

The Great Adventure

The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History.

Release Date:1963-09-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

The Richard Boone Show

The Richard Boone Show is a short-lived, award-winning anthology television series. It aired on NBC during the 1963-64 season.

Release Date:1963-09-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

The Lieutenant

The Lieutenant is an American television series, the first created by Gene Roddenberry. It aired on NBC on Saturday evenings in the 1963–1964 television schedule. It was produced by Arena Productions, one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most successful in-house production companies of the 1960s. Situated at Camp Pendleton, the West Coast base of the U.S. Marine Corps, The Lieutenant focuses on the men of the Corps in peace time with a Cold War backdrop. The title character is Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, a rifle platoon leader and one of the training instructors at Camp Pendleton. An hour-long drama, The Lieutenant explores the lives of enlisted Marines and general officers alike. The series was released on DVD in two half-season sets by the Warner Archive Collection on August 14, 2012.

Release Date:1963-09-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

The Yellow Canary

Andy is an arrogant pop singer about to be divorced by his wife who treats his staff badly. On the same night he starts a job at a theater in Los Angeles his infant son is kidnapped. Despite requests from the lead police officer on the case, Lieutenant Bonner, Paxton plays along with the kidnappers as they string him along even though they are willing to kill.

Release Date:1963-05-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Saints and Sinners

Saints and Sinners is an American drama series that aired on NBC during the 1962-63 television season. The program stars Nick Adams as newspaper reporter Nick Alexander. Saints and Sinners was created by Adrian Spies, who worked as a journalist before becoming a screenwriter.

Release Date:1962-09-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

The Explosive Generation

Peter Gifford is a likable, dedicated schoolteacher that teaches a senior life skills class. When student Janet Sommers brings up the topic of sex and dating, he asks students to write questions on the topic, and will cover them in the next class. The parents get wind of what Gifford is about to do, notify the principal, and he warns Peter not to read the questions in class. Gifford decides to go against this and is suspended. The whole student body protests, and the administration gets worried on what to do.

Release Date:1961-10-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

Dr. Kildare

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.

Release Date:1961-09-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:17

The Dick Powell Show

The Dick Powell Show is an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961- 1963, primarily sponsored by the Reynolds Metals Company. It was hosted by longtime film star Dick Powell until his death from lymphatic cancer on January 2, 1963, then by a series of guest hosts until the series ended. The first of these was Gregory Peck, who began the January 8 program with a tribute to Powell, recognizing him as "a great and good friend to our industry." Peck was followed by fellow actors such as Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Ford, Charles Boyer, Jackie Cooper, Rock Hudson, Milton Berle, Jack Lemmon, Dean Martin, Robert Taylor, Steve McQueen, David Niven, Danny Thomas, Robert Wagner and John Wayne.

Release Date:1961-09-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:5

Cain's Hundred

A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice.

Release Date:1961-09-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.

Release Date:1961-09-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:9

Insight

Insight is an American religious-themed weekly anthology series that aired in syndication from October 1960 to 1983. Produced by Paulist Productions in Los Angeles, the series presented half-hour dramas illuminating the contemporary search for meaning, freedom, and love. Insight was an anthology series, using an eclectic set of storytelling forms including comedy, melodrama, and fantasy to explore moral dilemmas. The series was created by Roman Catholic priest Ellwood E. "Bud" Kieser, the founder of Paulist Productions. As a member of an evangelistic order of Catholic priests called the Paulist Fathers, he worked in the entertainment community in Hollywood as a priest-producer and occasional host, using television as a vehicle of spiritual enrichment. Many of the episodes of the series were videotaped at CBS Television City and then Metromedia Square.

Release Date:1960-10-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

The Twilight Zone

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

Release Date:1959-10-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:914

The Killers of Mussolini

As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.

Release Date:1959-06-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Rawhide

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.

Release Date:1959-01-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:44

Pursuit

Pursuit is an American television anthology drama series which aired on CBS from October 1958 to January 1959.

Release Date:1958-10-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.

Release Date:1958-10-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

Naked City

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.

Release Date:1958-09-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:11

Collector’s Item

Mr. Prentiss is an appraiser at his firm, the House of Prentiss. He is about to go to Florida to appraise a vast collection of a recently deceased collector, Van der Locken, when he receives an unwanted visit from Ivor Hager, who informs him of "The Left Fist of David," a valuable but mysterious art object that was stolen from a Mexican church. An unsold TV Pilot

Release Date:1957-12-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Perry Mason

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Release Date:1957-09-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:123

Have Gun, Will Travel

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

Release Date:1957-09-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:40

No Right to Kill

This is a special series of lost classic programs from the Golden Age of TV. The series has been restored by SabuCat Productions from the best archival film elements available in high definition, some of the programs have not been seen since they were originally broadcast. Volume One features 2 one-hour dramatic programs that feature John Cassavetes. Climax! ran for four years - This was an anthology series that presented a different story and different set of characters on each episode. It ran from 1954 to 1958 and featured Casino Royale of James Bond fame that lead to a feature film of the same titles. On August 9th, 1956 - they showed No Right to Kill directed by Buzz Kulik and starring John Cassavetes, Robert H. Harris, Joe Mantell and Terry Moore.

Release Date:1956-08-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.

Release Date:1955-09-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:101

Climax!

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.

Release Date:1954-10-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:10

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.

Release Date:1951-12-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:6

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

Release Date:1950-10-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:43

Vote Count:5

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

Release Date:1948-11-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:11