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CBS Workshop
''CBS Workshop'', aka ''CBS Repertoire Workshop'' is an hour-long dramatic television anthology series that was produced by and aired on CBS mid-day on Sundays in the 1960s. There were a total of twenty-five episodes with guest stars that included Maureen Stapleton, Raul Davila, Ossie Davis, Larry Hagman, Fritz Weaver, and Andrew Prine. Collaborators from the realm of opera included the conductor Alfredo Antonini and the soprano Martina Arroyo. Contributors from the world of modern American dance included Alwin Nikolais, Murray Louis and Ruth Page Among its writers were Lewis John Carlino Lewis John Carlino (January 1, 1932 – June 17, 2020) was an American screenwriter and director. His career spanned five decades and included such works as '' The Fox'', '' The Brotherhood'', '' The Mechanic'', '' The Sailor Who Fell from Grace ... and Robert Herridge. References External links *''CBS Workshop'' at CVTA 1960s American anthology television series 1960 American tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Stapleton
Lois Maureen Stapleton (June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006) was an American actress. She received numerous accolades becoming one of the few actors to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting winning an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Tony Awards. She has also received a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award. Stapleton started her career in theatre making her Broadway debut in '' The Playboy of the Western World'' (1946). She went on to receive two Tony Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Play for '' The Rose Tattoo'' (1951) and for Best Actress in a Play for '' The Gingerbread Lady'' (1971). She was Tony-nominated for her roles in '' The Cold Wind And The Warm'' (1959), '' Toys in the Attic'' (1960), '' Plaza Suite'' (1971), and '' The Little Foxes'' (1981). For her portrayal of Emma Goldman in the historical epic film '' Reds'' (1981) she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raul Davila
Raul, Raúl, Raül, and Raüll are forms of a common first name in Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Galician, Asturian, Basque, Aragonese, and Catalan. The name is cognate of the Anglo-Germanic given name Ralph or Rudolph and the French Raoul, and is derived from Old English Rædwulf through Radulf.Entry 'Raul' in th inforpedia.pt website. Accessed on 2023-03-19. It is also a popular common boy name in . The name is usually spelled "Raul" in Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian; [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ossie Davis
Ossie Davis (born Raiford Chatman Davis; December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American actor, Film director, director, writer, and activist. He was married to Ruby Dee, with whom he frequently performed, until his death. He received numerous accolades including an Emmy, a Grammy and a Writers Guild of America Award as well as nominations for four additional Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and Tony Award. Davis was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994 and received the National Medal of Arts in 1995, Kennedy Center Honors in 2004.Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts Davis started his career in theatre acting with the Rose McClendon, Ross McClendon Players in the 1940s. He made his Broadway (theatre), Broadway debut acting in the post-World War II play ''Jeb (play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Hagman
Larry Martin Hagman (September 21, 1931 – November 23, 2012) was an American actor, best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1978–1991 primetime television soap opera ''Dallas'', and the handsome astronaut Major Anthony Nelson in the 1965–1970 sitcom '' I Dream of Jeannie''. Hagman had supporting roles in numerous films, including '' Fail-Safe'', '' Harry and Tonto'', '' S.O.B.'', '' Nixon'', and '' Primary Colors''. His television appearances also included guest roles on dozens of shows spanning from the late 1950s until his death, and a reprise of his signature role on the 2012 revival of ''Dallas''. Hagman also worked as a television producer and director. He was the son of actress Mary Martin. Hagman underwent a life-saving liver transplant in 1995. He died on November 23, 2012, from complications of acute myeloid leukemia. Early life Hagman was born on September 21, 1931, in Fort Worth, Texas. His mother, Mary Martin, became a Broadway a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Weaver
Fritz William Weaver (January 19, 1926 − November 26, 2016) was an American actor. He appeared in over 170 theatre, television, and film productions in a career spanning nearly 60 years. Weaver won the 1970 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance for his performance as Jerome Malley in the original Broadway production of ''Child's Play'', and was nominated for Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for '' The Chalk Garden'' (1958). He was also well-known as a Shakespearean, and for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the musical ''Baker Street''. On screen, he made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's '' Fail Safe'' (1964), and appeared in '' Marathon Man'' (1976), '' Black Sunday'' (1977), '' Demon Seed'' (also 1977), '' Creepshow'' (1982), and '' The Thomas Crown Affair'' (1999). Weaver portrayed Dr. Josef Weiss in the 1978 television miniseries ''Holocaust'', for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Prine
Andrew Lewis Prine (February 14, 1936 – October 31, 2022) was an American film, stage, and television actor. Early life Prine was born in 1936, in Jennings, Florida. He was raised in a farming community. Career Early beginnings In the mid-1950s, Prine was a "starving" stage actor in New York City. Prine made his acting debut in an episode of '' United States Steel Hour'', in 1957. He was the lead in the Broadway production of Thomas Wolfe's '' Look Homeward, Angel''. Adapted by playwright Ketti Frings, the play opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 28, 1957. In 1958, Prine was brought in as a replacement for Anthony Perkins. It ran for a total of 564 performances, and closed on April 4, 1959. The production was a critical success, it won 1958 Best American Play and was nominated for several Tony Awards. Prine left Broadway in pursuit of film acting, after he realised the greater pay difference. From 1959, he was cast in a series of small roles for tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Antonini
Alfredo Antonini (May 31, 1901 – November 3, 1983) was a leading Italian-American symphony conductor and composer who was active on the international concert stage as well as on the CBS radio and television networks from the 1930s through the early 1970s. In 1972 he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Religious Programming on television for his conducting of the premiere of Ezra Laderman's opera ''And David Wept'' for CBS television during 1971.''Entertainment Awards'' Don Franks. McFarland and Co., London, 2005 p. 394 ''Emmy Awards 1972 Outstanding Achievement in Religious Programming - Alfredo Antonini'' on https://books.google.com In addition, he was awarded the |
Martina Arroyo
Martina Arroyo (born February 2, 1937) is an American operatic soprano who had a major international opera career from the 1960s through the 1980s. She was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve wide success. Arroyo first rose to prominence at the Zurich Opera between 1963 and 1965, and then was one of the Metropolitan Opera's (Met) leading sopranos between 1965 and 1978. During those years at the Metropolitan Opera, she was also a regular presence at the world's opera houses, performing on the stages of La Scala, Covent Garden, the Opéra National de Paris, the Teatro Colón, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the San Francisco Opera. She is best known for her performances of the Italian spinto repertoire, and in particular, her portrayals of Verdi and Puccini heroines. Her last opera performance was in 1991, after which she has devoted her time to teaching singing on the faculties of various universities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwin Nikolais
Alwin Nikolais (November 25, 1910 – May 8, 1993) was an American choreographer, dancer, composer, musician, and teacher. He created the Nikolais Dance Theatre, and was known for his self-designed innovative costume, lighting, and production design. Nikolais gave the world a new vision of dance and was named the "father of multi-media theater." Early life Nikolais was born on November 25, 1910, in Southington, Connecticut. He studied piano at an early age and began his performing career as an organist accompanying silent films. As a young artist, he gained skills in scenic design, acting, puppetry, and music composition. It was after attending a performance by the German dancer Mary Wigman that he was inspired to study dance. He received his early dance training at Bennington College from the great figures of the modern dance world: Hanya Holm, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Louis Horst, and others. Career In 1939, in collaboration with Truda Kasch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Louis
Murray Louis (November 4, 1926 – February 1, 2016) was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Life Louis was known as one of the most influential American modern dancers and choreographers. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he grew up in Manhattan near Henry Street where he would later attend class at the Henry Street Playhouse and also start his company. He was one out of five children and his mother died when he was eight years old. He was then sent to an orphanage until he was twelve. At this time his sister Ethel, who was studying dance at the time, took him to many modern dance concerts. He graduated from Samuel J. Tilden High School in 1944. Louis was discharged from the U.S. Navy in 1946 and began to live in San Francisco, California. He then enrolled at Colorado College for a summer session conducted by Hanya Holm in 1949. It was there during one of their workshops where he met Alwin Nikolais, who would later become his mentor and lifelong partner. That year he m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Page (ballerina)
Ruth Page (March 22, 1899 April 7, 1991) was an American ballerina and choreographer, who created innovative works on American themes. Life Family Page was married to attorney Thomas Hart Fisher from 1925 to 1969, and to artist Andre Delfau from 1983 until her death in 1991. She is buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. Page's brother, Irvine Page, Irvine H. Page, was a noted physician and scientist. Career Born in Indianapolis in 1899, Ruth Page undertook professional studies with Jan Zalewski, Adolph Bolm, Enrico Cecchetti, Harald Kreutzberg and Mary Wigman. She made her professional debut on Broadway in 1917, then with Anna Pavlova’s Company on its tour of South America in 1918, and at Chicago's Auditorium Theater in John Alden Carpenter’s ''The Birthday of the Infanta'' in 1919. She danced ceaselessly for the next forty years, with Adolph Bolm’s Ballet Intime, on Broadway in Irving Berlin’s ''Music Box Revue'', with the Chicago Allied Arts, Sergei Diaghilev’s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis John Carlino
Lewis John Carlino (January 1, 1932 – June 17, 2020) was an American screenwriter and director. His career spanned five decades and included such works as '' The Fox'', '' The Brotherhood'', '' The Mechanic'', '' The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea'', '' I Never Promised You a Rose Garden'', ''Resurrection'', and '' The Great Santini''. Carlino was nominated for many awards, including the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Theatrical work One of Carlino's earliest works was a play, ''The Brick and the Rose; a collage for voices''. It was published on December 12, 1957, and the first production took place that year in the Ivar Theatre, now part of the LA Film School, in Hollywood, California.The Playwrights Database doollee.com; accessed September 3, 2017. The |
