Linda Ellerbee

Linda Ellerbee

Birth : 1944-08-15,

History

Linda Ellerbee is a television producer, writer and a news anchor. She is also a journalist, a best-selling author, and a breast cancer survivor. In 1987, Ellerbee and her partner Rolfe Tessem started the production company Lucky Duck Productions.

Profile

Linda Ellerbee

Movies

Studs Terkel: Listening to America
Producer
For over 60 years, Studs Terkel elevated the voices and experiences of everyday Americans through his skillful interviews on radio, in books and on TV. This documentary takes a fond and illuminating look back at one of America's most influential authors and media personalities whose curiosity about people never dimmed over the course of a long and brilliant career.
Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
Self
Film-makers and academics discuss the use of mythology in Star Wars and the impact of the films on society
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
Self
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward changed American history through their dogged pursuit of the truth in uncovering the story of Watergate. Starting small and building step-by-step, they connected the dots that led from a third-rate burglary at the Watergate Office Building to the resignation of the President of the United States. This documentary asks the question: If two young reporters uncovered a national crime in the White House today, could they be as successful as Woodward and Bernstein were in the 1970s? Through interviews with prominent journalists such Walter Cronkite, Jonathan Alter, Linda Ellerbee, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, we take an insightful look at the state of investigative journalism in America today.
Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat
Self
It was a plot device worthy of any film noir thriller. A shadowy figure, keeper of the secrets to a national crime, reveals snippets of information to the man struggling to crack the case. Meetings in shadowy parking garages... cryptic signals using flower pots on balconies... it was John Le Carre or Alfred Hitchcock at their best... And it was all true. Featuring interviews with Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Walter Cronkite, Oliver Stone, Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste and many others, this documentary examines the methods, motivations and far-reaching legacy of the man known as Deep Throat, now revealed to be W. Mark Felt, Deputy Director of the FBI during the Watergate era.
Face to Face: The Schappell Twins
Executive Producer
Two bodies and one mind, this is the extraordinary story of one pair of conjoined twins in today's world.
Decade
Herself
Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr, David Byrne, George Michael and more, as they reflect on the 1980s.
Baby Boom
Narrator (voice)
The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.