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American Masters

American television series
TVSeries television_series Q2842976

Facts

15 properties
Instance of
television series
Director
Robert B. Weide, Karen Goodman, Perry Miller Adato, Mel Stuart, Tony Palmer, Charles Atlas, Terry Carter, Chuck Workman, Martin Scorsese, Morgan Neville, Hiro Narita, David Gill, Christian Blackwood, Susan Lacy[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Genre
documentary television program, biography[20][21]
Official website
www.pbs.org
Screenwriter
Martin Scorsese, Chuck Workman, Todd McCarthy[16][17][18]
Cast member
Lee Grant, Peter Bogdanovich, Jack Lemmon, Eli Wallach, James Dean, Abiola Abrams, Ray Charles, Hugh Hefner, Carlos Santana, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gene Hackman, S. Epatha Merkerson, Peter Coyote, Harvey Keitel, Yoko Ono, Paul Newman, CCH Pounder, Betty White, Cesar Romero, Peggy Lipton, John Cage, Dylan McDermott, Oliver Platt, Bert Lahr, Lily Tomlin, James Garner, Clarke Peters, June Havoc, Alexis Smith, Pat Boone, Tony Martin, Laurie Anderson, Lennie Niehaus, Mary Martin, Signe Hasso, Fielder Cook, Janis Paige, Earl Holliman, Pete Seeger, Eartha Kitt, Rosemary Clooney, Patricia Morison, Ben Vereen, Arthur Penn, Turhan Bey, Edie Adams, Michael Wright, William Goldman, Terry Southern, Nicholas Pileggi, Joan Baez, Jay Cocks, George Clayton Johnson, I. A. L. Diamond, Reed Birney, Jen Drohan, Dionne Warwick, Bill Irwin, Phyllis Diller, Shimon Peres, Harry Carey, Neil Hamilton, Neil Simon, Larry David, Harry James, Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton, Anne Jackson, Pippa Scott, Miriam Makeba, William Bakewell, Oscar Peterson, Gypsy Rose Lee, Richard Davalos, Douglas Fowley, Minta Durfee, D. A. Pennebaker, Mary Doran, Benson Fong, Henry Kolker, Vernon Reid, Dalton Trumbo, Josephine Dunn, Arthur Hohl, Robert Benchley, Hunter S. Thompson, Maria Sharapova, Chris Spedding, Michael Pollan, Tony Benn, Robbie Robertson, Edna Ferber, Bonnie Raitt, Joe Frazier, Bryan Ferry, Elizabeth Marvel, Priscilla Bonner, Peter Sellars, Sammy White, Omara Portuondo, Robert Harron, Jerome Kern, Eugenie Besserer, Ernest Cossart, Frances Foster, Steve Allen, Sarah Vaughan, Martha Tilton, Raymond Walburn, Jane Novak, David Margulies, Joel Fabiani, Anna Wintour, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Eric Christmas, Betty Garrett, Whitney Houston, Harold Goodwin, George Morfogen, Molly Picon, Joseph Buloff, Mae Marsh, Sidney Lumet, Luise Rainer, Jon Hamm, Robin Hughes, Carole King, Nat Hentoff, Jimmy Page, Aretha Franklin, Peggy Cartwright, James Brown, James MacArthur, Martha Graham, James Taylor, Don Gordon, Adolf Hitler, Daniel J. Boorstin, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Benny Goodman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Amiri Baraka, Dizzy Gillespie, Caroline Wozniacki, Jean Howard, Eric Andersen, Ahmet Ertegün, James Mitchell, Ann Christy, Monte Hale, Cliff Arquette, August Wilson, Joe DiMaggio, Juanita Hall, Artie Shaw, William T. Orr, Jacques Chirac, Kitty Carlisle, Doris Singleton, Morey Amsterdam, Gore Vidal, Thelma Carpenter, Roy Stewart, Frank Fay, Uta Hagen, Tom Hayden, Charles Stevenson, Josephine Crowell, Bert Granet, Robert Nichols, Carl Perkins, Gary Crosby, Sarah Marshall, Albert Warner, Joey Faye, Jerry Colonna, Zora Neale Hurston, Isaac Stern, Stan Kenton, Joe Williams, Elliot Roberts[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]
Composer
Mark Adler[19]
Country of origin
United States
Has part(s)
American Masters, season 10
Number of seasons
+35
Original broadcaster
PBS
Original language of film or TV show
English
P14813
143086
Social media followers
15k (14k–15k, n=4)
Start time
June 22, 1986
🏷️ Also known as
en American Masters de PBS American Masters fa استادهای آمریکایی he גדולי האמנים האמריקאים ja アメリカン・マスターズ ru Американские мастера zh 美国大师 zh 美國大師
🔖 Identifiers · 21
VIAF cluster ID
185510488
Library of Congress authority ID
n84156197
Epguides ID
AmericanMasters
Fernsehserien.de ID
american-masters
FilmVandaag ID
serie/8993
Freebase ID
/m/04xbq3
Giphy username
pbsamericanmasters
IMDb ID
tt0364151
Kinobox film ID
205477
Kinopoisk film ID
480157
LUMIERE film ID
104827
MusicBrainz series ID
cc888e03-e436-429b-9da4-a2f543a928de
Show all 21 identifiers +9
Plex media key
5d9c085bec357c001f9abbb8
RatingGraph TV show ID
american-masters-ratings-16202
TMDB TV series ID
15069
TV Maze series ID
3524
Television Academy Foundation show ID
american-masters
TheTVDB series ID
81727
Trakt.tv ID
shows/american-masters
X (Twitter) username
PBSAmerMasters
ČSFD film ID
239060

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Cast member 179
Adolf Hitler, Martin Luther King Jr., Hillary Clinton, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jacques Chirac, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Henry Kissinger, Whitney Houston +171 more
Director 11
Martin Scorsese, Mel Stuart, Terry Carter, Robert B. Weide, Tony Palmer, Morgan Neville, Chuck Workman, Perry Miller Adato +3 more
Screenwriter 3
Martin Scorsese, Todd McCarthy, Chuck Workman
Genre 2
biography, documentary television program
Country of origin 1
United States
Instance of 1
television series
Original broadcaster 1
PBS
Original language of film or TV show 1
English
← Described by source 1
Marlee Matlin
← Part of the series 1
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
← Production company 1
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
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Summary

American Masters is a television series[1].

Related Entities

Adolf Hitler Ahmet Ertegün Amiri Baraka Anna Wintour Aretha Franklin Arnold Schwarzenegger Arthur Penn Artie Shaw Benny Goodman Betty Garrett Betty White Bill Irwin Bonnie Raitt Bryan Ferry Carlos Santana Carl Perkins Carole King Caroline Wozniacki Dalton Trumbo Daniel J. Boorstin Dionne Warwick Dizzy Gillespie Dylan McDermott Earl Holliman Eartha Kitt Edie Adams Edna Ferber Eli Wallach Ella Fitzgerald Gene Hackman

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