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"Broadcasting is a personal business. It's an ability to enlist the aid of people, their energy, their brain power, and their creative ability." - Leonard Goldenson, ABC Network President

The Archive of American Television focuses on the people involved in broadcast history, and to that end, interviews TV legends in all professions. Browse the complete list of individuals online, by name below.

See the complete list of Archive interviewees. New online interviews are added regularly.

All Online Interviewees

A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T W Y
  • A
  • Andy Ackerman
  • Berle Adams
  • Edie Adams
  • Robert Adler
  • Alan Alda
  • Kay Alden
  • Steve Allen
  • Charlie Andrews
  • Army Archerd
  • James Arness
  • Beatrice Arthur
  • Edward Asner
  • Larry Auerbach
  • B
  • Rick Baker
  • Bob Banner
  • Joseph Barbera
  • Paris Barclay
  • Bob Barker
  • Cliff Barrows
  • William Bell
  • Ted Bergmann
  • Milton Berle
  • Rick Berman
  • Walter Bernstein
  • Lewis Bernstein
  • Barbara Billingsley
  • Steve Binder
  • Wade Bingham
  • William Blinn
  • Lucille Bliss
  • Steven Bochco
  • Paul Bogart
  • Haskell “Buzz” Boggs
  • Mili Lerner Bonsignori
  • Ernest Borgnine
  • Tom Bosley
  • Peter Boyle
  • Ed Bradley
  • Bernie Brillstein
  • David Brinkley
  • James L. Brooks
  • Kirk Browning
  • Frances Buss Buch
  • Allan Burns
  • Ken Burns
  • James Burrows
  • LeVar Burton
  • Robert Butler
  • C
  • Sid Caesar
  • Dann Cahn
  • Vince Calandra
  • David Canary
  • Stephen J. Cannell
  • George Carlin
  • Diahann Carroll
  • Leo Chaloukian
  • Stan Chambers
  • Marge Champion
  • Cyd Charisse
  • Glen Charles
  • Les Charles and Glen Charles
  • Tony Charmoli
  • Julia Child
  • Ed Christie
  • Roy Christopher
  • Dick Clark
  • Kevin Clash
  • Bob Claver
  • Art Clokey
  • John Conte
  • Tim Conway
  • Joan Ganz Cooney
  • Hal Cooper
  • Barbara Corday
  • Fred De Cordova
  • Bob Costas
  • Alexander Courage
  • Richard Crenna
  • Walter Cronkite
  • Robert Culp
  • D
  • Bill Daily
  • Bill Dana
  • Michael Dann
  • Bob Carroll, Jr. & Madelyn Pugh Davis
  • Ossie Davis
  • Ann B. Davis
  • Madelyn Pugh Davis
  • Ruby Dee
  • Sam Denoff
  • Phyllis Diller
  • Walter Dishell
  • Roy E. Disney
  • Elinor Donahue
  • Phil Donahue
  • Sam Donaldson
  • Richard Donner
  • David Dortort
  • Mike Douglas
  • Hugh Downs
  • Bob Doyle
  • Charles Dubin
  • Betty Cole Dukert
  • Dick Van Dyke
  • E
  • Roger Ebert
  • Barbara Eden
  • Michael Eisner
  • Ruth Engelhardt
  • F
  • Nanette Fabray
  • Jerry Falwell
  • Elma “Pem” Farnsworth
  • Irving Fein
  • Barbara Feldon
  • Norman Felton
  • Mike Fenton
  • Bob Finkel
  • Gerald Perry Finnerman
  • Dorothy Fontana
  • Tom Fontana
  • Horton Foote
  • June Foray
  • John Forsythe
  • Michael J. Fox
  • Charles Fox
  • Fred Foy
  • John Frankenheimer
  • Dennis Franz
  • Albert Freedman
  • Chuck Fries
  • G
  • James Garner
  • Betty Garrett
  • Tony Geiss
  • Larry Gelbart
  • Marla Gibbs
  • Sharon Gless
  • Leonard H. Goldenson
  • Jerry Goldsmith
  • Lewis Gomavitz
  • Curt Gowdy
  • Lee Grant
  • Walter E. Grauman
  • Andy Griffith
  • Robert Guillaume
  • H
  • Earle Hagen
  • Larry Hagman
  • Monty Hall
  • Valerie Harper
  • Don Hastings
  • Patricia Heaton
  • Dwight Hemion
  • Sherman Hemsley
  • Florence Henderson
  • Paul Henning
  • Buck Henry
  • Don Herbert
  • Albert Heschong
  • Don Hewitt
  • Arthur Hiller
  • Leslie Hoffman
  • Ron Howard
  • Roy Huggins
  • J
  • George Clayton Johnson
  • Russell Johnson
  • Lamont Johnson
  • Quincy Jones
  • Shirley Jones
  • Chuck Jones
  • Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • K
  • Lucille Kallen
  • Hal Kanter
  • Bob Keeshan
  • Lynwood King
  • William Klages
  • Jack Klugman
  • Don Knotts
  • Kay Koplovitz
  • Harvey Korman
  • Tim Conway and Harvey Korman
  • Marty Krofft
  • Irma Kusely
  • L
  • Mort Lachman
  • Perry Lafferty
  • Angela Lansbury
  • Jack Larson
  • Norman Lear
  • Gene LeBell
  • Jim Lehrer
  • Jack Lemmon
  • Sheldon Leonard
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Frank Liberman
  • William Link
  • Art Linkletter
  • Charles Lisanby
  • Norman Lloyd
  • Sidney Lumet
  • M
  • Bob Mackie
  • Gavin MacLeod
  • Robert MacNeil
  • Delbert Mann
  • Abby Mann
  • Martin Manulis
  • Sonia Manzano
  • Rose Marie
  • Bob Markell
  • Garry Marshall
  • E. G. Marshall
  • Richard Matheson
  • Rue McClanahan
  • Bob McGrath
  • Jim McKay
  • Ed McMahon
  • Barney McNulty
  • Jayne Meadows
  • Bill Melendez
  • Tammy Faye Bakker Messner
  • Burt Metcalfe
  • Mitch Miller
  • Newton N. Minow
  • Don Mischer
  • Vic Mizzy
  • John Moffitt
  • Ricardo Montalban
  • Leslie Moonves
  • Mary Tyler Moore
  • Rita Moreno
  • Harry Morgan
  • Pat Morita
  • Howard Morris
  • N
  • Alan Neuman
  • Sheila Nevins
  • David Newell
  • Bob Newhart
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • Agnes Nixon
  • O
  • Carroll O'Connor
  • Don Ohlmeyer
  • Roscoe Orman
  • Hugh O’Brian
  • P
  • Don Pardo
  • Fess Parker
  • Regis Philbin
  • Suzanne Pleshette
  • Abraham Polonsky
  • Mike Post
  • Tom Poston
  • David Pressman
  • R
  • Tony Randall
  • Joyce Randolph
  • Phylicia Rashad
  • Frances Reid
  • Carl Reiner
  • Rob Reiner
  • Del Reisman
  • Gene Reynolds
  • John Rich
  • Rita Riggs
  • Heino Ripp
  • Maria Riva
  • Pat Robertson
  • Cliff Robertson
  • Fred Rogers
  • Phil Roman
  • Andy Rooney
  • Meta Rosenberg
  • Marion Ross
  • Aaron Ruben
  • Stanley Rubin
  • Tim Russert
  • Thomas Del Ruth
  • S
  • Morley Safer
  • Soupy Sales
  • Jay Sandrich
  • Isabel Sanford
  • Thomas W. Sarnoff
  • Max Schindler
  • Arthur Schneider
  • Sherwood Schwartz
  • Jan Scott
  • William Self
  • Paul Shaffer
  • William Shatner
  • David Shaw
  • Jack Shea
  • Sidney Sheldon
  • James Sheldon
  • Fred Silverman
  • Garry Simpson
  • Doris Singleton
  • Ira Skutch
  • Erika Slezak
  • Bob Smith
  • Dick Smith
  • Tom Smothers and Dick Smothers
  • John Soh
  • Aaron Spelling
  • Carroll Spinney
  • Daniel Petrie Sr.
  • Lesley Stahl
  • Jean Stapleton
  • Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns
  • Herbert Stempel
  • Leonard Stern
  • Bob Stewart
  • Dick Stiles
  • Jerry Stiller
  • Gale Storm
  • Maxine Stuart
  • T
  • George Takei
  • Noel Taylor
  • June Taylor
  • Studs Terkel
  • Grant Tinker
  • Mel Tolkin
  • Daniel J. Travanti
  • Ted Turner
  • Ret Turner
  • W
  • Helen Wagner
  • James Wall
  • Mike Wallace
  • Barbara Walters
  • Joseph A. Wapner
  • Ruth Warrick
  • Dennis Weaver
  • Bob Weiskopf
  • Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf
  • Joseph Wershba
  • Betty White
  • Joseph M. Wilcots
  • Andy Williams
  • Ethel Winant
  • Henry Winkler
  • Jonathan Winters
  • Dick Wolf
  • Ben Wolf
  • David Wolper
  • Jane Wyatt
  • Y
  • Alan Young
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Watch Interview Highlights

  • On getting across the message that the justice system means business
  • LeVar Burton on getting cast on Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • Steve Binder on producing Petula, and the controversy surrounding a segment of it (part 1)
  • Walter Cronkite on coming up with his signature signoff "and that's the way it is"
  • James Garner on almost being cast in the title role of Cheyenne
  • Ernest Borgnine on making a character come alive with your voice
  • George Carlin on the advice he would give young comedians
  • Betty White on winning her 1952 Best Actress Emmy 
  • Mary Tyler Moore on Lucille Ball giving her the greatest gift "she ever received in the business" while working on The Dick Van Dyke Show
  • Sherman Hemsley on the creation of the "walk" for George Jefferson's character on The Jeffersons
  • Barbara Walters on coming to terms with Gilda Radner's "Baba Wawa" impression
  •  JFK Assassination and Funeral
  •  Drama
  • "Buffalo" Bob Smith on going on the air with the very first Howdy Doody Show

From the Collection

  • Paul Shaffer on Seinfeld?

    PAUL SHAFFER was originally considered for the role of "George" on Seinfeld.

  • Phylicia Rashad

    PHYLICIA RASHAD was a regular on One Life to Live before her stardom on The Cosby Show.

     

  • Ricardo Montalban as Mr. Roarke on Fantasy Island

    RICARDO MONTALBAN is best known for his starring role on Fantasy Island. Other stars considered to play "Mr. Roarke" were Orson Welles and John Huston.

  • Regis Philbin world record

    REGIS PHILBIN holds the Guinness World Record for most hours on-camera.

  • Sesame Street: classic episode

    Click here for the Archive's special page on Sesame Street's classic episode "Farewell, Mr. Hooper"

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