Biography
Biography is a documentary television series. It was originally a half-hour filmed series produced for CBS by David Wolper from 1961 to 1964 and hosted by Mike Wallace. The A&E Network later re-ran it and has produced new episodes since 1987. The older version featured historical figures such as Helen Keller and Mark Twain, or long-dead entertainment figures such as Will Rogers or John Barrymore. The A&E series has placed the emphasis on such people as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Plácido Domingo, Freddie Mercury, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Eric Clapton, Pope John Paul II, Gene Tierney, Selena, Diego Rivera, Mao Zedong and Queen Elizabeth II, and fictional characters like The Phantom, Superman, Hamlet, Betty Boop, and Santa Claus. The program ended up profiling enough figures that in 1999, A&E spun it off into an entire network, The Biography Channel.
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1. David Berkowitz: Son of Sam
2. Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor
3. Amelia Earhart: Queen of the Air
4. Angela Lansbury: A Balancing Act
5. Anne Frank: The Life of a Young Girl
6. Beethoven: The Sound and the Fury
7. Colonel Sanders: America's Chicken King
8. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Commander-in-Chief
9. Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling With Life
10. Evel Knievel: Hell on Wheels
11. Howard Carter: Triumph and Treasure
12. Jackie Kennedy Onassis: In a Class of Her Own
13. Jim Jones: Journey into Madness
14. John Wayne: American Legend
15. P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
16. Ray Kroc: Fast Food McMillionaire
17. Satan: Prince of Darkness
18. Vincent Van Gogh: A Stroke of Genius
19. Charles Lindbergh: Against the Wind
20. Fred Gwynne: More than a Munster
21. John Wayne Gacy: A Monster in Disguise
22. Nicolae Ceausescu: The Unrepentant Tyrant
23. The Tiffanys: Mark of Excellence
44. Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody
63. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
67. Nostradamus: Prophet of Doom
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