Robert Saudek (producer)

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Robert Saudek (born April 11, 1911 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , † March 17, 1997 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American film and television producer in particular.

Life

Saudek studied at Harvard University and at the Law School of Duquesne University . He then worked for the radio in Pittsburgh, and also as an administrative assistant for NBC in New York City. In 1945 he became vice president of public affairs for ABC. Finally Saudek was as president for the television-radio workshop of the Ford Foundation operates. During this time he developed the series Omnibus for television, which was broadcast from 1952. In the late 1950s, he started his own production company with Robert Saudek Associates. It was Saudek who introduced and made known well-known personalities such as Leonard Bernstein and Jacques-Yves Cousteau to the general public via various television formats or made the medium of television accessible to them.

Saudek was later founding president of the Museum of Broadcasting in 1974, where he remained until 1981, and then worked for the Library of Congress as head of the department of motion pictures, broadcasting and recorded sound until 1991, the year of his retirement .

In 1963 he was responsible for the production of The Road to the Wall for the Oscar in the category "Best Short Documentary" nomination.

For Profiles in Courage , Saudek received the Peabody Award in 1965, as well as an Emmy nomination. In 1992 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts . Throughout his career, he has received an Emmy 11 times and the Peabody Award seven times.

Saudek died at the Johns Hopkins Hospital at the age of 85 . He spent the last fourteen years of his life in Washington. He was married for 62 years with five children and more than a dozen grandchildren.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lonnae O'Neal Parker: TELEVISION PRODUCER-DIRECTOR ROBERT SAUDEK DIES AT AGE 85 - The Washington Post. In: washingtonpost.com. March 15, 1997, accessed January 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ variety.com , accessed January 30, 2019
  3. ↑ nytimes.com , accessed January 30, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Saudek, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and television producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , United States
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1997
Place of death Baltimore , Maryland , United States