Aaron Spelling

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Aaron Spelling, 1965

Aaron Spelling (born April 22, 1923 in Dallas , Texas , † June 23, 2006 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film and television producer and actor .

He produced over 200 series and films in his life, e.g. As Starsky & Hutch , An American Family , Charlie's Angels (Charlie's Angels) , The Love Boat , Vegas , Hart to Hart (Hart to Hart) , Dynasty (Dynasty) , TJ Hooker , Beverly Hills, 90210 , Melrose Place , A Heaven (7th Heaven) and Charmed - magical witches (Charmed) . This made him the most productive and successful television producer in the world.

life and work

Years of apprenticeship

The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia attended Forest Avenue High School in Dallas , Texas . The taunts and beatings of his classmates there hit him so bad that he suffered a nervous breakdown at the age of eight, as a result of which he was exempted from school for a year. During this time he read a lot, including the stories of O. Henry . After serving in the Air Force , he graduated from Southern Methodist University (also in Dallas) in 1945. He moved to New York and worked as an actor.

Screenwriter and producer

In 1953 he married actress Carolyn Jones and the two moved to California. He had his breakthrough as a writer in 1954 when he sold his first script to the Jane Wyman Theater . He began writing for Dick Powell , Playhouse 90 , Last Man , and more. He participated in Powell's Four Star Productions . After Powell's death, he founded together with Danny Thomas , the Thomas-Spelling Productions . Her first success was The Mod Squad . In 1972 he founded Aaron Spelling Productions and another co-production company with Leonard Goldberg . His company became Spelling Entertainment in 1986 .

In the 1970s and 1980s, Spelling made the broadcaster ABC so successful with his popular series that it was also called "The Aaron Broadcasting Company". As much as he thus found favor with the television audience, the critics he harvested regularly bad reviews . This deep enmity did not diminish his success, however, in the 1980s the business magazine Forbes estimated the fortune of the producer at 300 million dollars. To this day he is considered the most successful television producer in Hollywood .

In addition to his entertainment series, Spelling also produced feature films and was at least able to convince the critics with these. For example, the AIDS film And the Band Played On (1993) about the beginnings of the epidemic won several Emmy Awards in 1994, among other things . Day One (1989) was about the construction of the atomic bomb .

family

He divorced Jones in 1965 and married Carole Jean "Candy" Marer in 1968 . Spelling was the father of Randy Spelling and the actress Tori Spelling , whom he gave roles in his series. He lived in Los Angeles. On June 18, 2006, Spelling suffered a stroke, from the consequences of which he died five days later.

Quotes

“The hits of the critics bothers you. But you have the choice of either proving yourself to 300 critics or 30 million fans. "

- Tyrolean daily newspaper

Filmography as a producer (selection)

literature

  • Aaron Spelling, Jefferson Graham: Aaron Spelling: A prime-time life . St. Martin's Press, New York 1996, ISBN 0-312-14268-4 , pp. 228 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AFP: TV mogul Aaron Spelling has died. In: morgenpost.berlin1.de. Berliner Morgenpost, June 25, 2006, archived from the original on June 26, 2006 ; Retrieved August 4, 2013 .
  2. ^ "US producer Aaron Spelling has died" ( Memento from July 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Spelling, Aaron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and television producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Dallas , Texas
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2006
Place of death Los Angeles , California