Projects » Emmy Award winners » Profiles
Photo
Name
John Charles Daly MP (1914 - 1991)

John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly (generally known by John Charles Daly or simply John Daly (Irish: Seán Searlás Ó Dálaigh; February 20, 1914 – February 24, 1991) was an American journalist, game show ...

Follow
Roger

Follow
Thomas

Follow
William Hanna (1910 - 2001)

William Denby "Bill" Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001) was an American animator, director, producer, voice actor, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained mil...

Follow
Julianne Moore MP

NY, USA

She is an American actress. She began her acting career in 1983 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the soap opera As the World Turns, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1988. She began...

Follow
Ralph Nelson (1916 - 1987)

Ralph Nelson (August 12, 1916 – December 21, 1987) was an American movie and television director, producer, writer, and actor. Life and career Nelson was born in Long Island City, NY. He serv...

Follow
Robert Russell Bennett (1894 - 1981)

Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 – August 18, 1981) was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers ...

Follow
Anne Bancroft (1931 - 2005)

Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Anne Bancroft was one of a few entertainers to scoop the Triple Crown of acting: an Oscar, Emmy and Tony, after her acclaimed television special, Annie...

Follow
Mel Brooks MP

Melvin Kaminsky, better known by his stage name Mel Brooks , is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor, and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film f...

Follow
Dame Judith Anderson, AC, DBE (1897 - 1992)

Dame Judith Anderson, AC, DBE (10 February 1897 – 3 January 1992) was an Australian-born American-based actress of stage, film and television. She won two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award and was also no...

Follow
Jane Alexander MP

Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great...

Follow
Kim Stanley (1925 - 2001)

Kim Stanley (born Patricia Beth Reid) was an American actress, primarily in theatre but with occasional film performances. Stanley began her acting career in theatre, and subsequently attended the ...

Follow
Burgess Meredith (1907 - 1997)

Originally a newspaper reporter, Burgess Meredith came to the screen in 1936, repeating his stage role in Winterset, a part written for him by Maxwell Anderson. He was best-known for portraying Rocky B...

Follow
George

Follow
Melvyn Douglas (1901 - 1981)

Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg (April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981), better known as Melvyn Douglas, was an American actor. Coming to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man (perhaps best typified ...

Follow
Caryn

Follow
Amanda Plummer MP

Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an actress best known for her work on stage and for her roles in films such as The Fisher King (1991) and Pulp Fiction (1994). Life and career ...

Follow
Larry Gelbart (1928 - 2009)

Larry Simon Gelbart (February 25, 1928 – September 11, 2009) was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter and author. Early life Gelbart was born in Chicago to Jewish immigrants Ha...

Follow
Sada Thompson (1927 - 2011)

Sada Carolyn Thompson (September 27, 1927 – May 4, 2011) was an American stage, film, and television actress. Life and career Born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1927 to Hugh Woodruff Thompson and hi...

Follow
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber MP

He is an English composer of musical theatre. He started composing at the age of six, and published his first piece at the age of nine. Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success, with several m...

Follow
Christopher Plummer MP

Became the oldest winner of an Oscar at the age of 82 in 2012. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------------------------- Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, CC (born De...

Follow
Alfred Lunt (1892 - 1977)

Alfred Lunt (August 12, 1892 – August 3, 1977) was an American stage director and actor, often identified for a long-time professional partnership with his wife, actress Lynn Fontanne. Broadway's Lun...

Follow
Lynn Fontanne (1887 - 1983)

Lynn Fontanne (pronounced /fɒnˈtæn/; 6 December 1887 — 30 July 1983) was a British actress and major stage star in the United States for over 40 years. She teamed with her husband Alfred Lunt. Sh...

Follow
Sela Ward MP

Sela Ann Ward (born July 11, 1956) is an American movie and television actress, perhaps best known for her television roles as Teddy Reed on the American TV series Sisters (1991–96) and as Lily Manni...

Follow
John Lithgow MP

John Arthur Lithgow ( /ˈlɪθɡoʊ/ LITH-goh; born October 19, 1945) is an American actor, musician, and author. Lithgow has been involved with a wide range of media projects, including stage, television...

Follow
Ted Danson MP

Edward Bridge "Ted" Danson III (born December 29, 1947) is an American actor, author and producer, well known for his role as lead character Sam Malone in the sitcom Cheers, and his role as Dr. John ...

Follow
Kathy Bates MP (1948 - d.)

Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and film director. After appearing in several minor roles in film and television during the 1970s and the 1980s, Bates rose to...

Follow
Bob Fosse MP (1927 - 1987)

Robert Louis “Bob” Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American actor, dancer, musical theater choreographer, director, screenwriter, film editor and film director. He won an unpreceden...

Follow
Elmer Lower MP (1913 - 2011)

Find a Grave Birth: 1913 Kansas City Jackson County Missouri, USA Death: Jul. 26, 2011 Vero Beach Indian River County Florida, USA Elmer Wilson Lower , an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster who ser...

Follow
Horton Foote MP (1916 - 2009)

Albert Horton Foote, Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film...

Follow
Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)

Helen Hayes Brown was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Em...

Follow
Beverly Sills MP (1929 - 2007)

Beverly Sills - Una Voce Poco Fa!! (1976) , Beverly Sills - Dunque io son! - Il Barbiere Di Siviglia Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929 – July 2, 2007) was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was...

Follow
Maureen Stapleton (1925 - 2006)

Maureen Stapleton (June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006) was an American actress in film, theater and television. Early life Stapleton was born Lois Maureen Stapleton in Troy, New York, the daughte...

Follow
Agnes de Mille MP (1905 - 1993)

Agnes George de Mille was born in New York City, September 18, 1905, daughter of film producer, William de Mille and Anna (George) de Mille, daughter of economist Henry George. When Agnes was nine year...

Follow
Maria Shriver, First Lady of California MP

Maria Owings Shriver (pronounced /ˈʃraɪvər/; born November 6, 1955)[1] is an American award-winning journalist and author of six best-selling books. She has won a Peabody Award, and was co-anchor for...

Follow
Harry Ackerman (1912 - 1991)

During his tenor as Vice President of Production at Screen Gems (1958-19740, American television producer Harry Ackerman delivered the classic sitcoms: Father Knows Best, Dennis the Menace, The Donna R...

Follow
Sally Field MP

Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress, singer, producer, director, and screenwriter. In each decade of her career, she has been known for major roles in American TV/film c...

Follow
Roseanne Barr MP (1952 - d.)

Roseanne Cherrie Barr (born November 3, 1952) is an American actress, comedienne, writer, television producer, director and 2012 presidential nominee of the California-based Peace and Freedom Party. Ba...

Follow
Tony Danza MP

Tony Danza (born Antonio Salvatore Iadanza ; April 21, 1951) is an American actor known for starring on the television series Taxi and Who's the Boss? , for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and...

Follow
Alan Alda MP

Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo ; January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his rol...

Follow
Rory

Brooklyn, Kings, NY, USA

Follow
Kathie Lee Gifford MP

Kathie Lee Gifford (born Kathryn Lee Epstein, August 16, 1953) is an American television host, singer, songwriter and actress, best known for her 15-year run (1985–2000) on the talk show Live with Re...

Follow
Vivian Vance MP (1909 - 1979)

Vivian Roberta Vance (July 26, 1909 – August 17, 1979)[1] was an American award winning television and theater actress and singer. Often referred to as “TV’s most beloved second banana,” she is best kn...

Follow
Peter Jennings (1938 - 2005)

Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his ...

Follow
Katie Couric MP

Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American journalist and author. She serves as special correspondent for ABC News, contributing to ABC World News, Nightline, 20/20, Good Mor...

Follow
Carol Burnett MP

Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedian, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit on Broadway, she made her telev...

Follow
Alec Baldwin MP

Alec Baldwin's commanding onscreen presence, coupled with a riveting intensity and gravelly voice few actors possessed, won him big screen acclaim in "The Hunt for Red October" (1990), "Glengarry Glen ...

Follow
William H. Macy MP

William Hall Macy, Jr. (born March 13, 1950) is an American actor and writer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo. He is also a teacher and director in the...

Follow
Justin Timberlake MP

Multi Grammy and Emmy winning American pop singer and aspiring actor Justin Timberlake came to fame as the frontman of pop boy band *NSYNC. In 2002, he released his debut solo album, Justified, which s...

Follow
Chris Rock MP

Christopher Julius "Chris" Rock (born February 7, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was voted in the US as the 5th greatest stand-u...

Follow
Roone Arledge (1931 - 2002)

Roone Pickney Arledge, Jr. (July 8, 1931 – December 5, 2002) was an American sports and news broadcasting pioneer who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 199...

Follow
James Spader MP

Actor James Spader was known for playing intriguing deviants in a number of acclaimed independent films in the 1980s and 1990s before his magic touch with morally ambiguous outsiders found its way to t...

Follow
Tommy Lee Jones MP

Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and film director. He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Marsh...

Follow
Hal Holbrook MP

Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. (born February 17, 1925) is an American actor. His television roles include Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and C...

Follow
David

Follow
Stockard Channing MP

Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard; February 13, 1944) is a two-time Emmy and one-time Tony Award winning American stage, film and television actress. She is known for her po...

Follow
John Denver (1943 - 1997)

Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After traveling and living in...

Follow
Marvin

Follow
Dinah Shore (1916 - 1994)

Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality. She reached the height of her popularity as a recording artis...

Follow
Burt Reynolds MP

Burton Milo "Burt" Reynolds, Jr. (born February 11, 1936) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, director, voice artist, and comedian. Some of his memorable roles include Bo 'Bandit' Darville in Sm...

Follow