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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 …
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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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The life stories of various historical figures and celebrities are told.
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Cast
Peter GravesSelf - Host
Scarlett JohanssonSelf
Aileen WuornosSelf (archive footage)
Dawn BotkinsSelf - Aileen's Childhood Friend
Arlene PralleSelf
Steve GlazerSelf - Defense Attorney
Tyria MooreSelf - Aileen's Girlfriend
Donna Jay FulksAileen Wuornos (voice)
Eva BraunSelf (archive footage)
Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage)
Paul KaupNarrator
Heinrich HoffmannSelf - Photographer (archive footage)
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Nerin GunSelf - Biographer (archive footage)
Justin BarrettNarrator (voice)
Kevin Smith
Dave ChappelleHimself (archival footage)
Ken TuckerHimself
Tanika RayHimself
Chuck NiceHimself
Dion GrahamNarrator
John Wayne GacySelf (archive footage)
Barry BoschelliSelf - Childhood Friend
Ray CornellSelf - Fellow Inmate
David CramSelf - Former Gacy Employee
David HachmeisterSelf - Police Investigator
Karen KuzmaSelf - Sister
Terry SullivanSelf - Gacy Biographer
Helen MorrisonSelf - Psychiatrist
Arnold SchwarzeneggerSelf
James CaanSelf
Jim BelushiSelf
Ivan ReitmanSelf
Jonathan MostowSelf
George ButlerGeorge Butler
George ClooneyGeorge Clooney
Claire DanesSelf
Kristanna LokenSelf
Penelope Ann MillerSelf
Ronald ShusettSelf
Robin WilliamsSelf
Stan WinstonSelf
Maria ShriverSelf
Jeanine BasingerSelf - Film Historian
Pat ByrneSelf - Sister
Christina CassiniSelf - Daughter
David RaksinSelf - Composer 'Laura'
Gene TierneySelf
Richard WidmarkSelf - Actor
Oleg CassiniSelf - Former Husband
Richard KileyNarrator (voice)
Vincent PriceSelf (archive footage)
Lucy Chase WilliamsSelf - Vincent Price's Biographer
Victoria PriceSelf - Vincent Price's Daughter
Norman LloydSelf
Hazel CourtSelf
Dennis HopperSelf
Jane RussellSelf
Roger CormanSelf
Roddy McDowallSelf
Don MorrowNarrator
Birgitta WallaceSelf
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