Norman Lear
Nascimento : 1922-07-27, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
História
Norman Milton Lear is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Maude. As a political activist, he founded the advocacy organization People for the American Way in 1981 and has supported First Amendment rights and progressive causes.
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Enie/Jeanette (Sokolovsky) and Hyman "Herman" Lear, a traveling salesman. His grandparents were all Russian Jewish immigrants. Jeanette was the inspiration for the character Edith Bunker, and Herman for Archie Bunker. Lear won a one year-scholarship to Emerson College. He dropped out when news about Pearl Harbor struck, and decided to enroll in the United States Army. He was nineteen. In the army, Norman was a radio operator. He was discharged in 1945.
Norman landed a press agent job but was not being paid well so decided to pursue another career. In 1954, he was a writer for the CBS sitcom, Honestly, Celeste! Lear then became the producer of NBC's The Martha Raye Show. In 1959, he created his first TV series with Roland Kibbee, The Deputy, on NBC, starring Henry Fonda. In 1967 his comedic writing career began. He wrote and produced the 1967 film, Divorce American Style, and directed the film, Cold Turkey, starring Dick Van Dyke. All In The Family came about when Lear read a British column on the show "Til Death Do Us Part", about a father and a son-in-law who fought about everything politically. He immediately knew it was just like him and his father. Lear tried to sell the "blue" collar sitcom to ABC, and two pilots were filmed and rejected. A third pilot was filmed, and CBS picked up the show. It premiered on January 12, 1971.
When it was first aired, a big warning appeared on the screen stating none of the content being presented should be taken seriously and should only be seen for the purpose of hilarity. Next came Sanford And Son, along with creator Bud Yorkin, in 1972. It was inspired by British sitcom Steptoe and Son. In All In The Family, a guest-star named Bea Arthur appeared in an episode and in 1972 the first spin-off was formed called Maude, starring Arthur. A memorable episode from Maude which struck a degree of controversy was the abortion episode. A spin-off from Maude, Good Times, with the maid character played by Esther Rolle, premiered in 1974, dealing with issues like poverty, crime, welfare and life in low-income African-American housing areas. This wasn't the only sitcom to depict life for African-Americans: in 1975 The Jeffersons, another spin-off from All In The Family, followed. All In The Family received multiple Emmy awards. Good Times ran for five seasons till 1979, with multiple Golden Globe nominations. Maude ran for six seasons, till 1978, receiving multiple Emmy and Golden Globe wins and nominations. Sanford and Son ended in 1977 with a Golden Globe win and several Emmy nominations. All In The Family ended in 1979, after nine seasons. Next came another spin-off of the show called Archie Bunker's Place, with Caroll O'Connor and Danielle Brisebois. Archie Bunker's Place ended in 1983, and was his last successful television show. Lear made a comeback in 1990 with several short-lived shows, including Sunday Dinner and 704 Hauser.
Executive Producer
In March of 2017, Baltimore was rocked by one of the nation’s largest Police corruption scandals when seven members of the elite Gun Trace Task Force unit were federally indicted on racketeering charges. Defense attorney Ivan Bates wasn’t shocked by the news because for years he had been listening to the victims of these crimes and had been trying to bring down the corrupt sergeant. I GOT A MONSTER is the true story of a cat-and-mouse game in an upside-down world where the cops are also the robbers.
Self
Uma homenagem à vida e ao legado do extraordinário contador de histórias, ativista e filantropo, Norman Lear. Comemore seu 100° aniversário com estrelas convidadas e diversas atrações musicais.
Himself
An epic journey forty years in the making, acclaimed filmmaker, Louie Schwartzberg, the director of Fantastic Fungi, takes us on a transformational, cinematic experience of how to live a more meaningful life full of Gratitude through his intimate conversations with everyday people, thought leaders, and personalities such as Norman Lear, Jack Kornfield, Luisah Teish, Alex Grey and other luminaries.
Self
A portrait of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr. (1936-2021), the visionary and fearless US filmmaker — father of actor Robert Downey Jr. — who in the sixties and seventies laid the foundations for countercultural comedy.
Self
O documentário explora a parceria improvável e o legado duradouro de um dos casais poderosos mais prolíficos da história do entretenimento. Lucille Ball e Desi Arnaz arriscaram tudo para ficarem juntos.
Self
This documentary explores Bob Einstein’s unlikely discovery and enduring career, sharing the many evolving layers of his comedy from the people that knew him best.
Self - Host
O especial ganhador do Emmy® Award faz seu retorno ansiosamente esperado, recriando episódios da TV clássica. A terceira versão do evento ao vivo de apenas uma noite contará com um elenco de estrelas que irá reencenar essas séries de sucesso.
Executive Producer
O especial ganhador do Emmy® Award faz seu retorno ansiosamente esperado, recriando episódios da TV clássica. A terceira versão do evento ao vivo de apenas uma noite contará com um elenco de estrelas que irá reencenar essas séries de sucesso.
Himself
Parker Baldwin finds her Christmas plans upended when her network persuades her to spend three days in the wild with survivalist Finn Holt for a holiday television event.
Self
Dean Martin had a laid-back charm that made him successful in everything from big-screen comedies to television variety shows to live acts in Las Vegas. Filmmaker Tom Donahue explores Martin’s varied career, including his complicated relationships with Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, and others. We hear from admirers such as critic Gerald Early, actor Jon Hamm, and Hip-Hop artist RZA who testify to Martin’s enduring mystique.
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Baseado em uma história real, este romance de décadas entre um aspirante a chef e um professor segue sua jornada traiçoeira do México a Nova York com sonhos, esperanças e memórias a reboque.
Executive Producer
Rita Moreno desafiou sua educação humilde e seu racismo implacável para se tornar parte de um seleto grupo que ganhou um Emmy, Grammy, Oscar e Tony. Ao longo de uma carreira de setenta anos, ela abriu o caminho para artistas hispano-americanos, recusando-se a ser categorizada em estereótipos unidimensionais.
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Rita Moreno desafiou sua educação humilde e seu racismo implacável para se tornar parte de um seleto grupo que ganhou um Emmy, Grammy, Oscar e Tony. Ao longo de uma carreira de setenta anos, ela abriu o caminho para artistas hispano-americanos, recusando-se a ser categorizada em estereótipos unidimensionais.
Self
In this uplifitng documentary, stars and musicians from across the industry speak to the power and importance of music in society. Here we examine how close we came to not having many of the incredible artists who we cherish today had it not been for arts programs. Music has the power to inspire and change world, and that starts with our supporting young talent.
Executive Producer
Live performances of classic holiday-themed episodes from Norman Lear's hit shows "All in the Family" and "Good Times."
Original Series Creator
Live performances of classic holiday-themed episodes from Norman Lear's hit shows "All in the Family" and "Good Times."
Himself - Co-Host
Live performances of classic holiday-themed episodes from Norman Lear's hit shows "All in the Family" and "Good Times."
Writer
Celebrities re-create an original episode each from "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons."
Himself (host)
Celebrities re-create an original episode each from "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons."
Self
The film is about the formation of a music channel that has shaped modern pop culture. On August 1, 1981, the life of a whole generation of Americans changed forever - on this day MTV began its broadcasting day, making VJ a new teen hero and creating a canon of music video as a vivid artistic statement.
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A documentary on the six-decades long career of a muckraking journalist, who was involved with the radical 196os magazine Ramparts, with the Los Angeles Times newspaper, and later with the Internet website Truthdig.
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A vida do lendário editor Ben Bradley, que nos anos 70 desafiou o governo dos EUA a desclassificar os documentos do
Pentágono.
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Irrepressible writer-comedian Carl Reiner, who shows no signs of slowing down at 94, tracks down celebrated nonagenarians, and a few others over 100, to show how the twilight years can truly be the happiest and most rewarding. Among those who share their insights into what it takes to be vital and productive in older age are Mel Brooks, Dick Van Dyke, Kirk Douglas, Norman Lear, Betty White and Tony Bennett.
Self
Arguably the most influential creator, writer, and producer in the history of television, Norman Lear brought primetime into step with the times. Using comedy and indelible characters, his legendary 1970s shows such as All In the Family, Maude, Good Times, and The Jeffersons, boldly cracked open dialogue and shifted the national consciousness, injecting enlightened humanism into sociopolitical debates on race, class, creed, and feminism.
Executive Producer
Playing for Change 3 Songs Around the World - CD + DVD Blues traz para você um álbum incrível do grupo Playing for Change em alta qualidade de áudio e vídeo para você poder curtir quando quiser! Playing for Change é um movimento criado com o objetivo de unir as pessoas ao redor do mundo pela música, viajando por diversos países e compondo músicas com artistas em comunidades em todo o mundo! O projeto deste álbum começou em 2012 com Keith Richards, índios astecas e inúmeros artistas ao redor do Caribe, e logo evoluiu para um jornada musical com mais de 185 músicos em 31 países! Curta alguns sucessos mundiais interpretados por diversos artistas neste kit espetacular que nenhum fã de Playing for Change pode perder! Faixas CD/DVD: La Bamba / Words Of Wonder / Get Up Stand Up / Reggae Got Soul / Down By The Riverside / A Better Place / What's Going On / Guantanamera
Self
Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi is a play retelling the Jesus story, with Jesus as a gay man living in the 1950s in Corpus Christi, Texas. This documentary follows the troupe, playwright, and audience around the world on a five-year journey of Terrence McNally’s passion play, where voices of protest and support collide on one of the central issues facing the LGBT community: religion.
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Pablo mistura elementos de documentário e animação para contar a saga de "famoso desconhecido" Pablo Ferro, um homem com uma jornada pessoal que vai de Havana, durante a revolução pré-cubano para sua atual casa, na garagem atrás da casa de seu filho. A parte de animação do filme leva-nos através do sonho-paisagem das memórias de Pablo, enquanto a filmagem de um documentário narra uma vida muito excêntrica de um artista de 72 anos, uma vez saudado por Stanley Kubrick como o pai do olhar dos anos sessenta e da estética MTV.
Self
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the most overlooked and least understood crafts in filmmaking.
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DVD featurette documenting the beginnings of "All in the Family"
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DVD featurette documenting the success of "All in the Family".
Himself
An intimate portrait and saga of four film pioneers--Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack who rose from immigrant poverty through personal tragedies persevering to create a major studio with a social conscience.
Executive Producer
Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artists Pete Seeger.
On May 8th, 1945, writer, director Norman Corwin broadcast ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, an unforgettable homage to the end of war in Europe. This film shines a light on a lost work of genius, and examines it's haunting resonance to today's current events.
Lifetime's "Intimate Portrait" series shines a spotlight on the Golden Girls -- Bea Arthur, Betty White, Estelle Getty and Rue McClanahan -- with a collection of four programs offering an up-close look at the remarkable lives of the hit show's stars. Valerie Harper, John Ritter and Alex Trebek narrate this tribute, with guests including Angela Lansbury, Mary Tyler Moore, Edward Asner, Rosie O'Donnell and many others.
Executive Producer
Based on the award-winning best seller by Jess Mowry, "Way Past Cool" is a coming-of-age story told in reverse, for it is the story of a group of young black kids and their fight to reclaim their childhood.
Self
Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of their choosing. In the fifth of the six films, "Funny Is Money," filmmaker Norman Jewison delves into the topic of comedy, using the hype surrounding the finale of the wildly successful NBC series "Seinfeld" as his launchpad to explore how the artform has evolved over the past 100 years.
Himself
In this documentary, artist-filmmaker Nicholas Hondrogen asks people to describe memorable moments of their lives. Some, such as Norman Lear and Indian activist Russell Means, talk about religion, while composer Philip Glass and film-producer Irwin Winkler discuss the births of their children. Pastor Jess Moody recalls WW II deaths of his friends, and artist Janice Blake remembers being raped.
Self
From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving clips from classic TV shows with commentary from TV producers, black actors and scholars, Marlon Riggs blends humor, insight, and thoughtful analysis to explore the evolution of black/white relations as reflected by America's favorite addiction.
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Evelyn Couch visita com o marido um parente no asilo de idosos. Uma vez lá, ela encontra Ninny Threadgoode, uma mulher idosa, que a ilumina e traz uma nova perspectiva através de contos do seu passado. Evelyn ganha a confiança necessária para mudar sua própria vida para melhor.
Executive Producer
A princesa Buttercup é raptada por uma bizarra gangue com um plano mirabolante para criar um incidente internacional. Seus membros logo descobrem que estão sendo perseguidos pelo pirata Roberts, que pode ser também Westley, o único - porém já esquecido - amor da princesa. Uma combinação bizarra de lutas de capa e espada, aventura, fantasia e comédia. Um divertidíssimo trabalho do diretor Rob Reiner.
Executive Producer
New York urologist Harold Lear gets a taste of his own medicine when he suffers a heart attack and is confronted with a medical institution which doesn't seem equipped to help. Wife Martha steps in to fight the system and get a measure of service and compassion. Ultimately the greatest battle is not waged against the medical profession, however, but against Lear's own failing body and his own mortal fears.
An all-star educational film about the positive side of hiring people with disabilities. A board sit and watch the film Michael Keaton's character's assembled to sell companies on hiring the handicapped, which takes "a different approach" by combining several approaches--most of them suggested by Hollywood personalities.
Producer
A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice.
Crying Man (uncredited)
Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
Producer
Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
Screenplay
Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
Director
Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
Executive Producer
An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other poor and somewhat dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as history happens around them. Based, very loosely, on Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities," Dumas's "The Corsican Brothers," etc.
Producer
A jovem Rachel sai de sua comunidade Amish e vai morar em Nova York para se tornar uma dançarina. Mas quando ela se envolve com o cômico Raymond, seu caminho muda de rumo e acidentalmente inventam o strip-tease.
Screenplay
A jovem Rachel sai de sua comunidade Amish e vai morar em Nova York para se tornar uma dançarina. Mas quando ela se envolve com o cômico Raymond, seu caminho muda de rumo e acidentalmente inventam o strip-tease.
Producer
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
Screenplay
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
Producer
A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with Paul Ford repeating his stage role as the flabbergasted papa-to-be.
Party Guest (uncredited)
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
Producer
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
Screenplay
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
Additional Dialogue
O cantor Larry Todd (Dean Martin) termina um romance com uma bela corista após descobrir que ela é namorada de um gangster. Ao fugir, ele acredita ter matado um dos mafiosos e é ajudado pela herdeira Mary Carol (Lizabeth Scott) e o parceiro Myron (Jerry Lewis). Eles fogem para uma ilha assombrada que Mary herdou e tentam encontrar um tesouro perdido, mas acabam encontrando várias assombrações.
A Case For Kindness is a journey to understand the true nature of Kindness, making a case for why it is our best way forward as a society. The film will examine different themes of kindness while exploring various stories, cultures and conversations. We thread the themes of bullying, hate, mental health, racial injustice, food insecurity and climate change. We interview experts, leading authorities and find real life moments to build the case that inspires humanity to adopt Kindness.
