- MARK CARLINER
- Executive Producer
Mark Carliner's Stalin, starring Academy Award ®
winner Robert Duvall, was the most-honored American television film
of the 1992-93 broadcast season, garnering three Golden Globe Awards and
four Emmy® Awards, including Best Picture. Most recently, Carliner produced
Stephen King's The Shining, a six-hour miniseries starring Rebecca
De Mornay and Steven Weber.
Carliner joined CBS in 1962 and spent six years at the network, buying
and programming all theatrical motion pictures. With backing from CBS, Carliner
produced the feature comedy Viva Max, starring Peter Ustinov and
Jonathon Winters.
In 1972, Carliner wrote and produced The President's Plane is
Missing, based on the best-selling novel. His other telefilms include
the highly rated Coffee, Tea or Me? and A Death of Innocence,
starring Shelley Winters. In 1975, Carliner was appointed Vice President
of Programming and Production for Viacom, where he developed and executive-produced
five telefilms and specials over the next two years. He established Mark
Carliner Productions in 1977 with the telefilms Billy; Portrait of a
Street Kid, starring LeVar Burton; and Rendezvous Hotel. The
company also produced the comedy series Flying High and the science-fiction
series The Phoenix, starring E.G. Marshall.
In 1984, Carliner produced the features Heaven Help Us, starring
Donald Sutherland, Andrew McCarthy, and Mary Stuart Masterson; and Crossroads,
a musical drama directed by Walter Hill and written by John Fusco. Carliner's
recent television productions include the highly rated Scandal in a Small
Town, starring Raquel Welch. He also produced and co-authored Disaster
at Silo 7, a critically acclaimed telefilm based on the true story of
a nuclear near-disaster in Arkansas.
- JULIAN KRAININ
- Producer
Award-winning filmmaker Julian Krainin has received more than a hundred
international film honors, including the Academy Award ®
, the Emmy®, the Directors Guild of America Award, the Peabody
Award and the CINE Golden Eagle.
Among Krainin's films are Quiz Show, nominated for four Academy
Awards ® , including Best Picture; The Quiz
Show Scandal, for PBS; Princeton: A Search for Answers, winner
of an Academy Award ® for Best Documentary Short
Subject; Art Is..., recipient of an Oscar ® nomination;
Memory and Imagination!; Disaster at Silo 7, recipient of
an Emmy® nomination; The Power of Excellence!With Tom Peters; The
Wrong Man; Don't Touch That Dial, winner of two Emmy® nominations;
Heritage: Civilization and the Jewswith Abba Eban, winner
of Peabody and Christopher Awards; Luciano Pavarotti in Italy; and
The Other Americans, Krainin's 1969-'70 production that received
more awards, including the Emmy®, than any other television documentary.
As director of special projects for the Westinghouse Broadcasting stations,
Krainin produced such films as Promises to Keep; Nowhere Fast; Exit to
Nowhere; and The Reluctant Revolution. Early films include Hide
and Seek and The March, profiling Martin Luther King.
- ETHEL WINANT
- Co-Producer
Ethel Winant cut her professional teeth backstage on Broadway, as production
assistant to three legends of the theatre: Irene Selznick, on A Streetcar
Named Desire; Elia Kazan, on Death of a Salesman; and Tennessee
Williams, on Summer and Smoke. She segued into the fledgling television
industry, casting productions for Armstrong Circle Theatre, Philco Goodyear
Television Playhouse, General Electric Theatre and Playhouse 90,
associate-producing the latter two.
At CBS, Winant became the first woman network vice president, where highlights
of her network tenure included The Migrants, Benjamin Franklin
and the Bicentennial Minutes. Winant later worked with the Children
Television Workshop as Vice President, Program Development; and at NBC as
Senior Vice President of Miniseries and Novels for Television, where her
credits included Shogun and Murder in Texas. In 1994, she
teamed with David W. Rintels on the NBC miniseries World War II: When
Lions Roared and again for TNT's critically acclaimed miniseries Andersonville,
directed by John Frankenheimer. Among her honors are a special Emmy®
Award for her contributions to Playhouse 90, two Peabody Awards,
the Humanitas Prize, the Christopher Award, the Alice Award and the Crystal
Award from Women in Film.
- MARSHALL FRADY
- Writer
Marshall Frady has been a journalist for more than twenty-five years,
writing principally on political figures and lives caught in the racial
and social tensions of the American culture. He launched his writing career
as a correspondent for Newsweek, then as a staff writer for Life,
a contributing editor at Harper's and, over the following years,
as contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic,
Esquire and The Sunday Times (London).
Frady is the author of Wallace, a biography of George Wallace
that The New York Times described as "one of the finest pieces
of political reporting published in years--a sensitive, informed and funny
feat of high journalism that is a classic of its kind." On its fourth
reissue in 1996, the Los Angeles Times described the work as "the
finest broad-brush, impressionistic study of a Southern politician that
we have."
In 1971, Harper's Magazine Press published Frady's Across a Darkling
Plain: An American's Passage Through the Middle East and the biography
Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness.
Frady joined ABC News in 1980, as host, chief writer and correspondent
for its documentary series Closeup. His work there included "The
Apocalypse Game," an examination of the escalation in U.S. and Soviet
armament, which won the CINE Golden Eagle Award; "Soldiers of the Twilight,"
which won a 1982 Emmy® Award; "The Gene Merchants," which received
a DuPont-Columbia Award, a Writers Guild of America Award and a Clarion
Award; "Near Armageddon: The Spread of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle
East," which won an Emmy® and the National Headliners Award; and the
critically acclaimed "To Save Our Schools, To Save Our Children,"
a three-hour assessment of the nation's public school system. Among Frady's
other programs at Closeup were "J. Edgar Hoover," "Adapt
or Die" and "The Vanishing America."
In 1986, Frady moved to Nightline as correspondent, where his
series of reports on televangelist scandals culminated in the program with
Jim and Tammy Bakker that became the most highly rated Nightline
broadcast ever. Since returning to printed journalism in 1988, all of Frady's
magazine pieces have been for The New Yorker. In June 1996, Random
House published his latest biography, Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage
of Jesse Jackson.
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