''Creative Persons'' is a biographical television series which was co-produced by broadcasters in Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Premise
This series was produced by Allan King Associates with support from
BR (Germany),
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...
(United Kingdom),
CBC CBC may refer to:
Media
* Cadena Baja California or Grupo Cadena, a radio and television broadcaster in Mexico
* Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's radio and television public broadcaster
** CBC Television
** CBC Radio One
** CBC Music
** ...
(Canada) and
NET
NET may refer to:
Broadcast media
United States
* National Educational Television, the predecessor of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States
* National Empowerment Television, a politically conservative cable TV network ...
(United States). Each episode featured a particular person in the field of art or design.
Scheduling
This half-hour series was broadcast in Canada on
CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcasting, p ...
Wednesdays at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 3 July to 25 September 1968.
Episodes
* "Who is
Maurice Béjart
Maurice Béjart (; 1 January 1927 – 22 November 2007) was a French dancer, choreographer and Theatre director, opera director who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He developed a popular expressionistic form of modern ballet, tac ...
?" (choreographer) – Roger Graef director
* "Who is
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 19255 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war contemporary classical music.
Born in Montb ...
?" (composer) – Roger Graef director
* "Who is
Max Frisch
Max Rudolf Frisch (; 15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity (social science), identity, individuality, Moral responsibility, responsibility, morality, and political commi ...
?" (architect, novelist, playwright) – William Brayne director
* "Who is
Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (; 18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-born American architect and founder of the Bauhaus, Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of ...
?" (architect) – Roger Graef director
* "Who is
James Jones?" (author) – Allan King director
* "Who is
Sean Kenny?" (designer) – William Brayne director
* "Who is
Jacques Lipchitz
Jacques Lipchitz (26 May 1973) was a Lithuanian-born French-American Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, domi ...
?" (sculptor) – Roger Graef director
* "Who is
Norman Mailer
Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer, journalist and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least ...
?" (writer)
* "Who is
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was b ...
?" (architect) – William Brayne director
* "Who is
Sonny Rollins
Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American retired jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.
In a seven-decade career, Rollins recorded over sixt ...
?" (musician) – Dick Fontaine director
* "Who is
Richard Smith?" (painter) – Denis Postle director
* "Who is
Rufino Tamayo
Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo (August 25, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec peoples, Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca City, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.Sullivan, 170-171Ades, 357 Tamayo was active in the mid-20th cen ...
?" (painter) – Roger Graef director
* "Who is
Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely (; born Győző Vásárhelyi, ; 9 April 1906 – 15 March 1997) was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement.
His work titled ''Zebra'', created in 1937, i ...
?" (painter)
References
External links
* {{Cite web , url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Con.html , first=Blaine , last=Allan , title=Creative Persons , publisher=
Queen's University , year=1996 , accessdate=7 May 2010 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311074242/http://www.film.queensu.ca/cbc/Con.html , archivedate=11 March 2010
1960s Canadian documentary television series
1968 Canadian television series debuts
1968 Canadian television series endings
BBC television shows
CBC Television original programming
Works about people in arts occupations
Biographical television series