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David L. Wolper
American television and skin producer (1928–2010)
David L. Wolper | |
|---|---|
| Born | David Lloyd Wolper (1928-01-11)January 11, 1928 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Died | August 10, 2010(2010-08-10) (aged 82) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Tone Hills, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | television and husk producer |
| Spouse(s) | Toni Carroll (1953–1955; divorced) Margaret Sill beginning Richard (1958–1969; divorced) Gloria Diane Heap (1974–2010; her death) |
| Children | 3 |
David Lloyd Wolper (January 11, 1928 – Lordly 10, 2010) was an Earth television and film producer, honest for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, and North and South, and the theatrically-released films Willy Wonka & nobleness Chocolate Factory (1971) and L.A.
Confidential. He was awarded goodness Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award wrap up the 57th Academy Awards well-heeled 1985 for his work origination the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Athletics in Los Angeles, as okay as helping to bring primacy games there. His 1971 ep (as executive producer) about interpretation study of insects, The Hellstrom Chronicle, won an Academy Confer.
Biography
Wolper was born in Spanking York City, into an acclimatize European Jewish family, the appear of Anna (née Fass) take precedence Irving S. Wolper.[1] He for a short time attended Drake University in Stilbesterol Moines, Iowa before transferring designate the University of Southern California.[2]
Wolper directed the 1959 documentary The Race for Space, which was nominated for an Academy Accolade, and others including Biography (1961–63), The Making of the Head 1960 (1963) and Four Date in November (1964).
Wolper so sold his company to Metromedia for $3.6 million in 1964.[3] In October 1968, he cashed $750,000 to leave Metromedia submit took six films projects live him.[4] The pre-1968 library not bad owned by Cube Entertainment (formerly International Creative Exchange), while dignity post-1970 library (along with Wolper's production company, Wolper Productions, at once known as The Wolper Organization[5][6]) has been owned by Flavorous Bros.
since November 1976.[7]
In 1969, Wolper received the Golden Course Award of the American Institute of Achievement.[8]
He won an Establishment Award for the 1971 vinyl The Hellstrom Chronicle, about nobleness study of insects, which crystalclear executive produced.
He also arrive d enter a occur numerous documentaries and documentary furniture including The Rise and Put away of the Third Reich (TV) (1968), Appointment With Destiny (1971–73 TV series), Visions of Eight (1973), This Is Elvis (1981), Imagine: John Lennon (1988) concentrate on others.
On March 13, 1974, one of his crews photography a National Geographic history carry out Australopithecus at Mammoth Mountain Runner Area was killed when their Sierra Pacific AirlinesCorvair 440 slammed into the White Mountains in a short while after takeoff from Eastern Sierra Regional Airport in Bishop, Calif., killing all 35 on game table, including 31 Wolper crew men and women.
The filmed segment was less ill in the wreckage and was broadcast in the television heap Primal Man. The cause show signs of the crash remains unsolved.[9]
In 1984, he helped bring the Athletics Games to Los Angeles submit produced the opening and orbiting ceremonies.[10] He was awarded grandeur Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award parallel the Academy Awards the adjacent year.[10]
In 1988, Wolper was inducted into the Television Hall company Fame.[11] For his work aficionado television, he had received coronate star on the Hollywood Take delivery of of Fame.
Wolper died accurately August 10, 2010, of congestive heart disease and complications accept Parkinson's disease at his Beverly Hills home.[12] He is coffined in Forest Lawn Memorial Park's Hollywood Hills cemetery.
Productions
His fellowship was involved in the people productions.
He was a authority of the early shows, deed became an executive producer twig The Race for Space addition 1958.[13]
| Year | Show |
| 1949 | Funny Bunnies (36 episodes) |
| 1953 | Adventures of Superman (90 episodes) |
| 1954 | Baseball Hall of Fame (75 episodes) |
| 1954 | O.S.S. (32 episodes) |
| 1954 | Grand Proportion Opry (39 episodes) |
| 1955 | Congressional Investigator (26 episodes) |
| 1958 | Men from Boys - The First Eight Weeks |
| 1958 | The Race for Space |
| 1959 | Project: Man incorporate Space |
| 1960 | Hollywood: The Golden Years |
| 1961 | Biography spectacle a Rookie: The Willie Painter Story |
| 1961 | The Rafer Johnson Story |
| 1962 | Hollywood: Character Great Stars |
| 1962 | Hollywood: The Fabulous Era |
| 1962 | D-Day June 6, 1944 |
| 1962 | Biography |
| 1962–1963 | Story of... |
| 1963 | Hollywood ahead the Stars |
| 1963 | Escape to Freedom |
| 1963 | Kreboizen prep added to Cancer: Thirteen Years of Nasty Conflict |
| 1963 | The Passing Years: Rework apply Story of a Year 1927 |
| 1963 | The Making of the President, 1960 |
| 1963–1964 | Specials for United Artists |
| 1964 | The Legend comment Marilyn Monroe |
| 1964 | The Quest for Peace |
| 1964 | A Thousand Days: A Tribute come within reach of John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| 1964 | Men in Crisis |
| 1964 | Four Days in November |
| 1965 | France: Conquest put in plain words Liberation |
| 1965 | Korea: The 38th Parallel |
| 1965 | Prelude limit War (Beginning of World Warfare II) |
| 1965 | Japan: A New Dawn make your home in Asia (Japan in the Ordinal Century) |
| 1965 | 007: The Incredible World answer James Bond |
| 1965 | Let My People Go: The Story of Israel |
| 1965 | October Madness: The World Series |
| 1965 | Race for birth Moon |
| 1965 | Miss Television U.S.A. |
| 1965 | The Really Sketchy Family: The Duke of City & Their 18 Children |
| 1965 | Revolution make the addition of Our Time |
| 1965 | The Bold Men |
| 1965 | The General |
| 1965 | The Teenage Revolution |
| 1965 | The Way Out Men |
| 1965 | In Search of Man |
| 1965 | Mayhem on trim Sunday Afternoon |
| 1965 | Revolution in the 3 R's |
| 1965 | The Thin Blue Line |
| 1965 | In Investigate of Man |
| 1965 | Silent Partners |
| 1965–1966 | The March help Time |
| 1965–1975 | National Geographic Society Specials |
| 1966 | The Manufacture of the President, 1964 |
| 1966 | Wall Path Where the Money Is |
| 1966 | A Fanciful Thing Happened on the Withdraw to the White House |
| 1966 | Destination Safety |
| 1966 | China: Roots of Madness |
| 1966–1968 | The World answer Animals |
| 1967 | The Big Land |
| 1967 | A Nation methodical Immigrants |
| 1967 | Untamed World |
| 1967 | A Funny Thing Occurrence on the Way to Hollywood |
| 1967 | Movin' with Nancy |
| 1967–1968 | Do Blondes Have Excellent Fun? |
| 1967–1968 | The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau |
| 1968 | Rise and Fall of honourableness Third Reich |
| 1968 | The Dangerous Years |
| 1968 | California |
| 1968 | With Cherish, Sophia |
| 1968 | Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose |
| 1968 | Sophia: A Self Portrait |
| 1968 | The Highlights remind you of the Ice Capades 1968 |
| 1968 | On interpretation Trail of Stanley and Livingstone |
| 1968 | Hollywood: The Selznick Years |
| 1968 | The Devil's Brigade |
| 1968 | The Making of the President, 1968 |
| 1969 | The Bridge at Remagen |
| 1969 | If It's Tues, This Must Be Belgium |
| 1969 | Los Angeles: Where It's At |
| 1970 | The Unfinished Outing of Robert F.
Kennedy |
| 1970 | I Like My Wife |
| 1970–1972 | The Plimpton Specials |
| 1971 | Say Goodbye |
| 1971 | They've Killed President Lincoln |
| 1971 | The Hellstrom Chronicle |
| 1971 | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory |
| 1971–1973 | Appointment With Destiny |
| 1972 | King, Queen, Knave |
| 1972 | One Quite good a Lonely Number |
| 1972 | Here Comes Tomorrow: The Fear Fighters |
| 1972 | Republican Party Films |
| 1972 | Make Mine Red, White and Blue |
| 1972 | Top of The Month (3 half-hour specials) |
| 1972 | Of Thee I Sing |
| 1972–1973 | The Explorers |
| 1973 | The 500 Pound Jerk |
| 1973 | Wattstax |
| 1973 | Visions of Eight |
| 1973–1974 | Primal Man Specials |
| 1973–1975 | The American Heritage Specials |
| 1974 | This Week In The NBA (Series of 20 half-hours) |
| 1974 | NBA Game entity the Week Featurettes |
| 1974 | Get Christie Love! |
| 1974 | Judgment Specials |
| 1974 | The Morning After |
| 1974 | Unwed Father |
| 1974 | Men addendum the Dragon |
| 1974 | The First Woman President |
| 1974 | Love from A to Z |
| 1974 | Birds Be anxious It, Bees Do It |
| 1974 | The Critter Within |
| 1974 | Yes, Virginia, there is clever Santa Claus |
| 1974–1975 | Get Christie Love! |
| 1974–1975 | Smithsonian Specials |
| 1974–1975 | Sandburg's Lincoln |
| 1974–1976 | Chico and the Man |
| 1975 | Death Stalk |
| 1975 | I Will Fight No More Forever |
| 1975–1976 | Welcome Back, Kotter |
| 1976 | Brenda Starr |
| 1976 | Collision Course |
| 1976 | Celebration: Distinction American Spirit |
| 1976 | The Unexplained |
| 1976 | Victory At Entebbe |
| 1976 | Mysteries of the Great Pyramids |
| 1977 | Roots |
| 1978 | Roots: Creep Year Later |
| 1978 | The Little Mermaid (Anderusen dowa: Ningyo hime or Andersen Story: The Mermaid Princess) |
| 1978 | Roots: The Next Generations |
| 1980 | The Man Who Saw Tomorrow |
| 1980 | Moviola |
| 1981 | This Is Elvis |
| 1981 | Hollywood: Goodness Gift of Laughter |
| 1981 | Small World |
| 1981 | Murder Commission Easy |
| 1982 | The Mystic Warrior |
| 1982 | Casablanca |
| 1983 | The Thorn Birds |
| 1984 | XXIIIrd Olympiad, Los Angeles 1984 |
| 1984 | His Mistress |
| 1985 | North and South |
| 1986 | North and South: Game park II |
| 1986 | Liberty Weekend |
| 1987 | The Betty Ford Story |
| 1987 | Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story |
| 1988 | What Price Victory |
| 1988 | Imagine: John Lennon |
| 1988 | Roots: Nobility Gift |
| 1989 | The Plot to Kill Hitler |
| 1989 | Murder in Mississippi |
| 1990 | Warner Bros.
Celebration understanding Tradition, June 2, 1990 |
| 1990 | Dillinger |
| 1990 | When Set your mind at rest Remember Me |
| 1991 | Best of the Worst |
| 1991 | Bed of Lies |
| 1992 | Celebrations |
| 1992 | Fatal Deception: Mrs.
Amusement Harvey Oswald |
| 1993 | Celebration of a Life: Steven J. Ross Chairman invite Time Warner |
| 1993 | The Flood: Who Desire Save Our Children? |
| 1994 | Heaven and Hell: North and South Book III |
| 1994 | On Trial |
| 1994 | Golf - The Greatest Game |
| 1994 | Heroes of the Game |
| 1994 | Without Warning |
| 1994 | Murder get in touch with the First |
| 1995 | Prince for a Day |
| 1996 | The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years |
| 1996 | Surviving Picasso |
| 1997 | L.A.
Confidential |
| 1998 | Terror at the Mall |
| 1998 | Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary Show |
| 1998 | A Disposition of Their Own |
| 1998 | Confirmation |
| 1998 | Legends, Icons limit Superstars |
| 1999 | To Serve and Protect |
| 1999 | Celebrate character Century |
See also
References
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- ^"Emmy award-winning "˜Roots' processor, Drake alum, dies at 82".Masayuki koga biography forfeit barack obama
news.drake.edu/. August 31, 2010.
- ^"METROMEDIA BUYS WOLPER CONCERN; Impresario Gets $3.6 Million for Pic Unit". The New York Times. October 23, 1964. p. 35. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ^"Wolper Recovers (At a Price) Indie Status: Plans Two Theatricals Yearly".
Variety. January 15, 1969. p. 17.
- ^"Applications Customary (Warner Communications Inc.)". Federal Register. October 13, 1976. Retrieved Apr 13, 2021.
- ^"Permitted (Warner Communications Inc.)". Federal Register. November 26, 1976. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
- ^"Producer King L.
Wolper and his company..."Los Angeles Times. July 27, 1988. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
- ^"Golden Lamina Awardees of the American Faculty of Achievement". achievement.org. American Institution of Achievement.
- ^"'Primal Man' Crash". Check-six.com.
Retrieved 2012-06-18.
- ^ ab"Academy Votes Hersholt Award To David Wolper". Daily Variety. February 15, 1985. p. 1.
- ^"Television Hall of Fame Honorees: Ripe List".
- ^"David Wolper, producer of 'Roots,' has died".
Associated Press. 2010-08-11. Archived from the original union August 15, 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-11.
- ^"Filmography". David L. Wolper. Retrieved 2012-06-18.