Kevin Knoblock
Director
Biography (1961)
Biography is a documentary television series. It was originally a half-hour filmed series produced for CBS by David Wolper from 1961 to 1964 and hosted by Mike Wallace. The A&E Network later re-ran it and has produced new episodes since 1987. The older version featured historical figures such as Helen Keller and Mark Twain, or long-dead entertainment figures such as Will Rogers or John Barrymore. The A&E series has placed the emphasis on such people as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Plácido Domingo, Freddie Mercury, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Eric Clapton, Pope John Paul II, Gene Tierney, Selena, Diego Rivera, Mao Zedong and Queen Elizabeth II, and fictional characters like The Phantom, Superman, Hamlet, Betty Boop, and Santa Claus. The program ended up profiling enough figures that in 1999, A&E spun it off into an entire network, The Biography Channel.
Genres: Biography, Documentary, History
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Production Companies: Towers Productions, Atlas Media, Actuality Productions, Foxstar Productions, Working Dog Productions + 13 more, Stage 3 Productions, Eagle Rock Entertainment, Atlas Media Corp., Jupiter Entertainment, Flashback Television, Pangolin Pictures, Robert Small Entertainment, Lou Reda Productions, Electric Sky Productions, Departure Films, Popular Arts Entertainment, Screaming Flea Productions, Sharp Entertainment
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Production Country:
United States
Languages:
English
10.0
Season 1 (1992)
15 episodes
Season 3 (1994)
81 episodes
10.0
Season 5
32 episodes
Season 6
51 episodes
6.0
Season 7
26 episodes
Season 10
31 episodes
10.0
Season 18
28 episodes
Season 20
45 episodes
Season 24
2 episodes
Season 25
1 episodes
Season 13
2 episodes
Season 19
2 episodes
Season 4 (1995)
2 episodes
Season 12
1 episodes
Season 21
2 episodes
Season 26
1 episodes
Season 27
1 episodes
Season 2 (1993)
1 episodes
Season 8
0 episodes
Season 9
2 episodes
Season 11
2 episodes
Season 14
1 episodes
Season 15
0 episodes
Season 16
0 episodes
Season 17
0 episodes
Season 22
0 episodes
Season 23
0 episodes
Network: CBS
Runtime: 19411 min.
Episode Runtime: 59 min.
Released: April 6, 1987
Last Air Date: Jan. 2, 2012, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG / 10+