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. Anastasia: Her True Story
2. Andy Griffith: Hollywood's Homespun Hero
3. Augustus: First of the Emperors
4. Ayatollah Khomeini: Holy Terror
5. Caligula: Reign of Madness
6. Charles Kuralt: A Life on the Road
7. Constantine: The Christian Emperor
8. David Copperfield: Master of Illusion
9. Diana: The People's Princess
10. Dow and Jones: Wizards of Wall Street
11. Dutch Schultz: Menace to Society
12. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Psychic
13. Edward R. Murrow: Voice of America
14. Eliot Ness: Untouchable
15. Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen
16. Elizabeth: The Reluctant Monarch
17. Erwin Rommel: The Last Knight
18. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer
19. Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the Mob
20. General George C. Marshall: Soldier and Statesman
21. George Armstrong Custer: America's Golden Cavalier
22. Hadrian: Emperor of the Golden Age
23. Ivan the Terrible: Might and Madness
24. J.C. Penney: Main Street Millionaire
25. JFK: A Personal Story
26. Jimmy Stewart: His Wonderful Life
27. Joseph Kennedy: Father of an American Dynasty
28. Julius Caesar: Master of the Roman World
29. Justinian: The Last of the Romans
30. Katharine Graham: Pillar of the Post
31. Leonardo Da Vinci: Renaissance Master
32. Lucrezia Borgia: Pretty Poison
33. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Man and the Dream
34. Meyer Lansky: Mob Tycoon
35. Mother Teresa: A Life of Devotion
36. Nancy Reagan: The President's Leading Lady
37. Neiman Marcus: Last of the Merchant Kings
38. Nelson Rockefeller: Passionate Millionaire
39. Nero: The Power and the Madness
40. Pancho Villa: Outlaw Hero
41. R.H. Macy: Merchant Prince
42. Sam Giancana
43. Sam Walton: Bargain Billionaire
44. Samuel Bronfman: Whiskey Man
45. Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind
46. Stanley & Livingstone: The Mercenary and the Missionary
47. The Gambinos: First Family of Crime
48. The Marshall Fields: A Chicago Tradition
49. The Woolworths: Five-and-Dime Fortune and Failure
50. Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All
51. Vladimir Lenin: Voice of the Revolution
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