Perry Wolff, a longtime CBS News producer, writer and director who won 17 News & Documentary Emmys but probably is best known for a now-classic documentary in which Jackie Kennedy provided a tour of the newly restored White House, died February 17 in Portland, Or. He was 97.
His death was confirmed to The New York Times by his son, the writer John Trevor Wolff. (Watch a clip of the Kennedy film below).
Wolff’s métier was the television documentary and news special. Here’s a partial list of his Emmy- and/or Peabody Award-winning films, listed on Wolff’s website and blog and mostly from the 1960s-’70s golden age of TV news documentaries: A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy, The Italians, The Great American Novel, Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed, The Japanese, The American Revolution, The Selling of the Pentagon, Conversations with Eric Sevareid, Inside Hollywood: The Movie Business,...
His death was confirmed to The New York Times by his son, the writer John Trevor Wolff. (Watch a clip of the Kennedy film below).
Wolff’s métier was the television documentary and news special. Here’s a partial list of his Emmy- and/or Peabody Award-winning films, listed on Wolff’s website and blog and mostly from the 1960s-’70s golden age of TV news documentaries: A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy, The Italians, The Great American Novel, Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed, The Japanese, The American Revolution, The Selling of the Pentagon, Conversations with Eric Sevareid, Inside Hollywood: The Movie Business,...
- 2/27/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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