Agent

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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Highlights

Priscilla Morgan on early shows she signed her clients up for and her process of finding clients work

04:20

Ruth Engelhardt on the art of negotiation

06:00

Larry Auerbach on the concept of an agency "packaging" a show

02:29

Berle Adams on the MCA "uniform" for agents

01:46

Lou Weiss on William Morris in the '50s and making a deal

05:34

Priscilla Morgan on learning how to be an agent

02:48

Who talked about this profession

Berle Adams

Berle Adams on packaging actors and television shows as an agent at MCA

02:32

Berle Adams on the MCA "uniform" for agents

01:46

Berle Adams on how MCA agents went after new clients

02:00

Berle Adams on packaging television shows as an agent at MCA

01:32

Berle Adams on how he structured deals for clients while an agent at MCA

02:57

Berle Adams on creating an international television division for MCA

03:11

Berle Adams on advice to aspiring agents

00:42

Larry Auerbach

Larry Auerbach on the process of booking performers in his early years at the William Morris Agency

03:47

Larry Auerbach on the concept of an agency "packaging" a show

02:29

Larry Auerbach on the William Morris Agency television department in the 1970s

05:07

Larry Auerbach on advice to aspiring agents

02:37

Bernie Brillstein

Bernie Brillstein on the difference between a manager and an agent

00:56

Ruth Engelhardt

Ruth Engelhardt on the art of negotiation

06:00

Ruth Engelhardt on advice to an aspiring agent

01:42

Priscilla Morgan

Priscilla Morgan on early shows she signed her clients up for and her process of finding clients work

04:20

Priscilla Morgan on learning how to be an agent

02:48

Priscilla Morgan on negotiating deals for William Morris and dealing with Fred Coe

05:27

Carroll O'Connor

Actor Carroll O'Connor on how his agent got him his first film, A Fever in the Blood, by setting up producer Roy Huggins to see O'Connor on television in The Sacco-Vanzetti Story

00:50

Lou Weiss

Lou Weiss on William Morris in the '50s and making a deal

05:34

Lou Weiss on the advent of packaging television

04:13

Lou Weiss on his role in packaging television shows

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“Creative people need somebody to represent them and speak for them. And fight for them. And protect them.” - Priscilla Morgan, Agent

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