Ann Serling will be a guest at the upcoming 35th Annual St. Louis Jewish Book Festival.
Best known for his role as the host of television’s The Twilight Zone, Rodman E. “Rod” Serling, an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, narrator, and teacher had one of the most exceptional and varied careers in television. The winner of more Emmy Awards for dramatic writing than anyone in history, Serling challenged the medium of television to reach for loftier artistic goals. Serling expressed a deep social conscience in nearly everything he did and was known as the “angry young man” of Hollywood, clashing with television executives and sponsors over a wide range of issues including censorship, racism, and war.
Born in 1924, Rod Serling grew up in the small city of Binghamton, New York. The son of a butcher. His experiences of the working-class life of New York, and the horrors of World War II,...
Best known for his role as the host of television’s The Twilight Zone, Rodman E. “Rod” Serling, an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, narrator, and teacher had one of the most exceptional and varied careers in television. The winner of more Emmy Awards for dramatic writing than anyone in history, Serling challenged the medium of television to reach for loftier artistic goals. Serling expressed a deep social conscience in nearly everything he did and was known as the “angry young man” of Hollywood, clashing with television executives and sponsors over a wide range of issues including censorship, racism, and war.
Born in 1924, Rod Serling grew up in the small city of Binghamton, New York. The son of a butcher. His experiences of the working-class life of New York, and the horrors of World War II,...
- 10/21/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A beloved character actor has left us after nearly half a century in front of the camera. Harold Gould died from prostate cancer on September 11th in Los Angeles. He was 86 years old.
Born and raised in New York state, Gould was the valedictorian of his high school class and went to college to become a teacher, before joining the army during World War II. After the war, he returned to college to study drama. He received his masters degree in 1948 and his Ph.D. in 1953. He married his wife, Lea, in 1950 and they recently celebrated 60 years of marriage.
After doing some regional theatre work and teaching, he started performing in movies like The Yellow Canary, The Front Page, Love and Death, Silent Movie, Gus, and of course, as a conman in The Sting. He kept performing on stage but,...
Born and raised in New York state, Gould was the valedictorian of his high school class and went to college to become a teacher, before joining the army during World War II. After the war, he returned to college to study drama. He received his masters degree in 1948 and his Ph.D. in 1953. He married his wife, Lea, in 1950 and they recently celebrated 60 years of marriage.
After doing some regional theatre work and teaching, he started performing in movies like The Yellow Canary, The Front Page, Love and Death, Silent Movie, Gus, and of course, as a conman in The Sting. He kept performing on stage but,...
- 9/14/2010
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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