What American film director and producer introduced the special on Doug Henning's World of Magic where Lori Lieberman was the musical guest?
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Doug Henning's World of Magic Doug Henning's World of Magic was the first of seven annual prime-time television specials starring magician Doug Henning, which aired live on NBC Friday, December 26, 1975. Bill Cosby was the show's special guest, along with Gene Kelly (who introduced the special) and musical guest Lori Lieberman. The show ran live without commercials under the sponsorship of Mobil.
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Gene Kelly Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor of film, stage and television, singer, film director, producer, and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likeable characters that he played on screen.
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Toy Story of Terror! Toy Story of Terror! is a 21-minute Halloween television special, based on the Disney Pixar "Toy Story" movies. It is set shortly after the events of "Toy Story 3" and "Toy Story Toons", and premiered on the American television network ABC on Wednesday, October 16, 2013. It was written and directed by Angus MacLane, produced by Galyn Susman, with Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Timothy Dalton, and Kristen Schaal reprising their roles of Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, Mr. Potato Head, Rex, Mr. Pricklepants, and Trixie with Carl Weathers as Combat Carl and Stephen Tobolowsky as the motel manager. Michael Giacchino composed the music for the special. The film's soundtrack was released on October 15, 2013, on Amazon.com and iTunes in digital format.
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Adrien Lorion Adrien Lorion (born April 29, 1972) is an art director and film writer.The 30th Montreal World Film Festival presents its idea original in the official opening show : Cadavre Exquis premiere edition. A group of ten film directors, scriptwriters and professional musicians took the exquisite corpse concept to a new level with the fusion of the art of film-making and song-writing.
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Sean Mullin Sean Mullin (born January 13, 1975), is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer.
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Mark Pellington Mark Pellington (born March 17, 1962) is an American film director, writer, and producer.
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Expo: Magic of the White City Expo: Magic of the White City is a historical documentary released to DVD on September 13, 2005. Directed by Mark Bussler and narrated by Gene Wilder, the documentary tells the story of Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. It begins by explaining Frederick Law Olmsted's planning of the fair and the architecture by Daniel Burnham. It also details exhibits by many people, including George Westinghouse, Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison.
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Mort Lindsey Mort Lindsey, (born Morton Lippman; March 21, 1923, Newark, New Jersey – May 4, 2012, Malibu, California), was an orchestrator, composer, pianist, conductor and musical director for Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Pat Boone and Merv Griffin.
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Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire is a 2012 direct-to-DVD animated musical comedy horror film, and the seventeenth entry in the direct-to-video series of "Scooby-Doo" films. This installment is notable for being the first of the films to be a musical. The film was released to rent through Amazon Video and iTunes on December 22, 2011. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 13, 2012. It premiered on Cartoon Network on March 3, 2012.
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Thomas Kail Thomas Kail (born January 20, 1978) is an American film and theatre director, known for directing the Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musicals "In the Heights" and "Hamilton", for which he received the Drama Desk Award and Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical.
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Lanny Meyers Lanny Meyers is an American composer, orchestrator, principal arranger and musical director. He has composed the ballet "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and Oklahoma City
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Roger Ross Williams Roger Ross Williams (born September 16, 1973) is an American television news, documentary and entertainment director, producer and writer. He directed most notably "Music by Prudence" that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject), about a 21-year-old Zimbabwean singer-songwriter Prudence Mabhena, who was born severely disabled and has struggled to overcome poverty and discrimination. All other seven members of Prudence's band "Liyana" are also disabled. Williams's film "God Loves Uganda", which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival to enormous critical acclaim. It was shortlisted for a 2014 Academy Award, has won over a dozen awards and screened at over 60 film festivals worldwide. His latest film "Life, Animated" was nominated for the 2017 Academy Award.
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Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (film) Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer is a Canadian–American animated Christmas special, directed by Phil Roman. The special first aired October 31, 2000 on The WB. It has subsequently aired on The CW (the successor to The WB) and Cartoon Network during the Christmas season. Since Warner Home Video distributed this special, Time Warner owns the copyrights. The title and plot are based on the novelty song of the same name.
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Carnival Magic (film) Carnival Magic is a 1981 American film directed by Al Adamson and starring Don Stewart. Originally intended as a family-oriented children’s film, it has since gained a cult following in underground and B movie film circles due to its surreal plot and incongruously-adult themes.
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Lesli Linka Glatter Lesli Linka Glatter (born July 26, 1953) is an American film and television director. She began her career as a dancer and choreographer. Her first film, "Tales of Meeting and Parting" (1984), produced by Sharon Oreck, was nominated for an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category. She made the film as part of the American Film Institute Directing Workshop for Women, of which she is an alumna. She has made several television films for cable networks, but the majority of her work is in television series. Glatter has received four nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, for the "Mad Men" episode "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency" (2009), and the "Homeland" episodes "Q&A" (2012), "From A to B and Back Again" (2014) and "The Tradition of Hospitality" (2015).
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Les Guthman Les Guthman is an American director, writer and production executive, who has the distinction of both having produced three of the "20 Top Adventure Films of All Time", according to "Men’s Journal" magazine, and having won the National Academy of Science’s (U.S) nationwide competition to find the best new idea in science television, which led to his film, "Three Nights at the Keck", hosted by actor John Lithgow.
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Marcia Ross Marcia S. Ross (born July 1955) is an award-winning American casting director and documentary producer.
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David Shire David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. The soundtracks to "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three", "The Conversation" and "All the President's Men", and parts of the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack such as "Manhattan Skyline", are some of his best-known works. His other work includes the score of the 1985 film "Return to Oz" (the "sequel-in-part" of "The Wizard of Oz"), and the stage musical scores of "Baby", "", "Closer Than Ever", and "Starting Here, Starting Now". Shire is married to actress Didi Conn.
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Larry Hochman Larry Hochman (born November 21, 1953 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American orchestrator and composer. He has won four Emmy Awards for his original music on the TV series "The Wonder Pets", and a Tony Award for his orchestrations for "The Book of Mormon".
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Scott Erickson (musician) Scott Erickson (born 1967) is a Los Angeles-based music record producer, music composer and music arranger. Originally from Seattle, WA, Erickson has been working in the music scene in Los Angeles since his graduation from Berklee College of Music in 1992. After stints working as an assistant for The Manhattan Transfer and Al Teller (Chairman and CEO, MCA Music Entertainment Group), he landed a job working with acclaimed Arranger and Keyboard player Robbie Buchanan. From 1997-2003 he learned the craft of making records and in 2003 left Buchanan to begin his production career on his own. Since then, artists that Erickson has produced and/or arranged for include Barry Manilow, Mijares, Yuri, Carly Simon, Alison Krauss and Michelle Tumes. He also has arranged and composed music and songs for numerous Disney films and Live Entertainment shows at the Disney Theme Parks.
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The Magic of Lassie The Magic of Lassie is a 1978 American musical drama film directed by Don Chaffey, starring Lassie, James Stewart, Stephanie Zimbalist, Pernell Roberts, and Michael Sharrett, with cameo appearances by Mickey Rooney and Alice Faye (in her final film appearance). James Stewart is featured in one of only three musical film roles that he played: the first was "Born to Dance" (1936) in which he introduced the Cole Porter standard "Easy To Love" and the second was "Pot O' Gold" (1941). This was also his final onscreen appearance in a live-action film. The screenplay and song score are supplied by the prolific Sherman Brothers of "Mary Poppins" fame. Their song "When You're Loved" was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Original Song" and was sung by Debby Boone. It is also the only musical film featuring Lassie.
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Tim Wilson (filmmaker) Black Magic Tim (born Timothy Malcom Wilson) is an American filmmaker working mostly with music videos, EPK's, commercials and independent feature films. He has directed, filmed and edited productions for clients such as Blackground Records, Tommy Boy Entertainment and TVT Records. As well as, EPK's for national artists and book authors like " Naughty by Nature "," Tank (American singer) ", "Kimberly Scott (singer)" and Motivational Speaker "Valorie Burton". He has received several awards and film festival nominations for his work on the short Sci-Fi film "Apple Crumb Panic".