Biography
Season 6 Episode 27 - Joseph Kennedy: Father of an American Dynasty
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.
Episodes in Season 6
Anastasia: Her True Story
60 min
Andy Griffith: Hollywood's Homespun Hero
60 min
Augustus: First of the Emperors
60 min
Ayatollah Khomeini: Holy Terror
60 min
Caligula: Reign of Madness
60 min
Charles Kuralt: A Life on the Road
60 min
Constantine: The Christian Emperor
60 min
David Copperfield: Master of Illusion
60 min
Diana: The People's Princess
60 min
Dow and Jones: Wizards of Wall Street
60 min
Dutch Schultz: Menace to Society
60 min
Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Psychic
60 min
Edward R. Murrow: Voice of America
60 min
Eliot Ness: Untouchable
60 min
Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen
60 min
Elizabeth: The Reluctant Monarch
60 min
Erwin Rommel: The Last Knight
60 min
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer
60 min
Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the Mob
60 min
General George C. Marshall: Soldier and Statesman
60 min
George Armstrong Custer: America's Golden Cavalier
60 min
Hadrian: Emperor of the Golden Age
60 min
Ivan the Terrible: Might and Madness
60 min
J.C. Penney: Main Street Millionaire
60 min
JFK: A Personal Story
60 min
Jimmy Stewart: His Wonderful Life
60 min
Joseph Kennedy: Father of an American Dynasty
60 min
Julius Caesar: Master of the Roman World
60 min
Justinian: The Last of the Romans
60 min
Katharine Graham: Pillar of the Post
60 min
Leonardo Da Vinci: Renaissance Master
60 min
Lucrezia Borgia: Pretty Poison
60 min
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Man and the Dream
60 min
Meyer Lansky: Mob Tycoon
60 min
Mother Teresa: A Life of Devotion
60 min
Nancy Reagan: The President's Leading Lady
60 min
Neiman Marcus: Last of the Merchant Kings
60 min
Nelson Rockefeller: Passionate Millionaire
60 min
Nero: The Power and the Madness
60 min
Pancho Villa: Outlaw Hero
60 min
R.H. Macy: Merchant Prince
60 min
Sam Giancana
60 min
Sam Walton: Bargain Billionaire
60 min
Samuel Bronfman: Whiskey Man
60 min
Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind
60 min
Stanley & Livingstone: The Mercenary and the Missionary
60 min
The Gambinos: First Family of Crime
60 min
The Marshall Fields: A Chicago Tradition
60 min
The Woolworths: Five-and-Dime Fortune and Failure
60 min
Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All
60 min
Vladimir Lenin: Voice of the Revolution
60 min
